Medieval History, Michaelmas 2024, Week 5: Bogomils or Bogeymen?: Heresy between East and West in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries

11th November 2024, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Bogomils or Bogeymen?: Heresy between East and West in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries

Speaker: Gregory Lippiatt (University of Exeter)

Location: Wharton Room

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Medieval History, Michaelmas 2024, Week 4: Identity and geographical origin at the late medieval University of Paris: an analysis of manuscript decoration

4th November 2024, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Identity and geographical origin at the late medieval University of Paris: an analysis of manuscript decoration

Speaker: Teresa Barucci (Magdalen)

Location: Wharton Room

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Medieval History, Michaelmas 2024, Week 3: Writing history in the tenth century

28th October 2024, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Writing history in the tenth century

Speaker: Sarah Hamilton (University of Exeter)

Location: Wharton Room

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Medieval History, Michaelmas 2024, Week 2: Making moral judgements: theory and practice in the thought of Johannes Nider

21st October 2024, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Making moral judgements: theory and practice in the thought of Johannes Nider

Speaker: Genevieve Caulfield (UCL)

Location: Wharton Room

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Medieval History, Michaelmas 2024, Week 1: Writing the Conquest of Egypt: A case study in the Formation of Islamic Historical Writing

14th October 2024, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Medieval History, Michaelmas 2024, Week 1: Writing the Conquest of Egypt: A case study in the Formation of Islamic Historical Writing

Speaker: Edward Zychowicz-Coghill (KCL)

Location: Wharton Room

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Revd Canon Rachel Carnegie

Chaplain

My research interests include the role of faith and culture in international development – having worked globally since 1985 in areas of education, gender, HIV, and the role of faith communities.

Background

Executive Director, Anglican Alliance: connecting global Anglican Communion in tackling issues of poverty, inequality and environmental crises (from 2014 to 2024)
Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan William's Secretary for International Development (from 2009 to 2013)
Coordinator of Church Mobilisation on HIV, Tearfund (from 2007 to 2009)
Ordained priest in Church of England (from 2005)
Consultant to UNICEF, Save the Children, etc. (from 1995 to 2007)
Creative Director, Meena Communication Initiative in South Asia, UNICEF (from 1990 to 1995)
Programme Officer and Lecturer, London University Institute of Education Child-to-Child Trust (from 1988 to 1989)
Teacher and curriculum developer, Voluntary Service Overseas and Save the Children US, Bhutan (from 1985 to 1988)

Research Interests

Role of faith and culture in international development.

Selected publications

A range of publications for health promotion, child literacy and social development (Macmillan, Longmans, and others, 1989-2001).

Involving People, Evolving Behaviour on strategic communication for social change, co-authored Neill McKee, Erma Manoncourt, Chin Saik Yoon, and Rachel Carnegie (Sage Publications, 2000).
Meena Communication Initiative for the Girl Child in South Asia: creative director and writer for story series on gender issues in animation, radio and print formats - some into 20 languages. (Unicef, BBC World Service and Longmans Educational Publishers, 1992-2000).

Other professional memberships and roles

Honorary Canon, Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford

Head and shoulders photograph of Alpa Shah

Professor Alpa Shah

Professor of Social Anthropology

Social Anthropology

PhD, MSc, BSc

University Academic Fellow since 2024

My research and writings span many themes including revolutionary insurgency, state and citizenship; democracy, human rights and social justice; global capitalism, inequality and poverty; agrarian change, precarious labour migration and informal economies of care; indigenous politics, conservation and environmental justice; race, caste, class and gender relations. My writings are based on deep immersive field research among the forest dwelling indigenous people of eastern India – Adivasis. I have also conducted research in Nepal and among Dalits, villified as ‘Untouchable’ people. I have a deep interest in ethnography and ethnographic writing.

Link to website

Background

Professor of Anthropology, London School of Economics and Political Sciences (2021-2024)
Reader in Anthropology, London School of Economics (2012-2021)
Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, Goldsmiths, University of London (2004-2012)
PhD in Anthropology, London School of Economics (1999-2004)
MSc in Anthropology, London School of Economics (1997-1998)
BSc in Geography, University of Cambridge (1994-1997)

Research Interests

Revolutionary insurgency, state and citizenship
Democracy, human rights and social justice
Global capitalism, inequality and poverty
Agrarian change, precarious labour migration and informal economies of care
Indigenous politics, conservation and environmental justice
Race, caste, class and gender relations

Selected publications

The Incarcerations: BK16 and the Search for Democracy in India. HarperCollins UK and India (2024).

Finalist for the 2024 Orwell Prize for Political Writing
Longlisted for the 2024 Moore Human Rights Prize
Financial Times ‘What to Read in 2024 List’
Guardian ‘One of Five best books on Indian Politics’

Nightmarch: Among India’s Revolutionary Guerrillas. Chicago: University of Chicago Press; London: Hurst; New Delhi: HarperCollins India (2018).

Winner of the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology Book Prize, 2020
Finalist for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing, 2019
Shortlisted for the Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, 2019
Finalist for the New India Foundation Book Prize, 2019
Longlisted for the Tata Literature Live Non-fiction Award, 2019
Book of the Year 2018 for the New Statesman, History Workshop, Scroll India and Hong Kong Free Press. Hindu ‘Year in Review Book’ and a Public Anthropology ‘Must Read’

Ground Down by Growth: Tribe, Caste, Class and Inequality Across India. London: Pluto Press; Delhi: Oxford University Press (co-authored with Jens Lerche, Richard Axelby, Dalel Benbabaali, Brendan Donegan, Jayaseelan Raj and Vikramaditya Thakur) (2018).

2018 Book of the Year for the Indian daily newspaper, the Hindu

In the Shadows of the State: Indigenous Politics, Environmentalism and Insurgency in Jharkhand, India. Durham (N.C.): Duke University Press. New Delhi: Oxford University Press (2010)

Link to website for longer list of publications.

Research awards and grants

MacGeorge Fellowship, University of Melbourne (2024-2025)
ERC Public Engagement with Research Prize 2022
Convenor of Research Theme on ‘Global Economies of Care’, LSE International Inequalities Institute. (£28,000) (2020-2023)
Leverhulme Trust Doctoral Scholarships grant of £1million to work on ‘The Challenge of Escalating Inequalities.’ Co-led the witing of the proposal for the LSE inter-departmental bid (2015-2018)
Principal Investigator. European Research Council. Starting Grant. To work on the ‘Underbelly of the Indian Economic Boom.’ (€ 1.5 million) (2013-2020)
Principal Investigator. Economic and Social Research Council UK. To work on ‘An Ethnographic Investigation into the Persistence of Poverty amongst Adivasis and Dalits in India.’ (£1.2 million). (2013-2019)
British Academy UK- South Asia Visiting Fellowship Scheme. UK Host to Visiting Fellow, Saroj Giri, Political Science, University of Delhi. (£7,500) (2011-2012)
Principal Investigator British Academy UK-South Asia Partnership Grant for ‘Inequality and Affirmative Action in South Asia: Current Experiences and Future Agendas in India and Nepal.’ (£30,000) (2009-2012)
Principal Investigator. Economic and Social Research Council Research Fellowship for ‘State, Society, Revolution: Everyday lives and livelihoods of marginalised people in Jharkhand, India.’ (£545,471) (2009-2011)
Principal Investigator. British Academy Small Research Grant for ‘Maoism in India and Nepal: Anthropological Comparisons.’ (£7,484) (2007).
Wenner Gren Richard Carley Hunt Memorial Fellowship for the writing of ‘In the Shadows of the State: Indigenous Politics in Jharkhand, India.’ (Award of $32,421) (2006).

Michael Braddick

History

FBA, FRHistS

Senior Research Fellow since 2024

I am currently working on two projects: a book on England in the 1650s, England’s Freedom, along with interpretive essays on the place of the English revolution in British history and the comparative history of revolution; and work on the politics of bread and the grain supply, related to an AHRC-funded project, ‘The politics of the English grain trade, 1315-1815’. These two strands of work are connected by an interest in attempts to characterise and explain the distinctive British path to nineteenth-century modernity, and to integrate the history of popular politics into discussion of these macro-historical questions.

Contact:mike.braddick@all-souls.ox.ac.uk

Background

Temporary Lecturer, Lecturer (1992), Senior Lecturer (1998) and Professor (2001), Department of History University of Sheffield (from 1990 to 2024)
Assistant Professor, Birmingham Southern College, Alabama (from 1989 to 1990)
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Alabama (from 1988 to 1989)
King‘s College, Cambridge, PhD (from 1984 to 1988)
King’s College, Cambridge, BA (from 1981 to 1984)

Research Interests

The English revolution and the comparative history of revolution
The history of the English grain trade, c. 1315-1815
British history over the longue durée

Selected publications

Christopher Hill: the life of a radical historian, Verso, 2025
The common freedom of the people: John Lilburne and the English revolution, Oxford University Press, 2018
The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution, Oxford University Press, 2015
God’s Fury, England’s Fire: a new history of the English civil wars, Allen Lane, 2008
Negotiating power in early modern society: Order, hierarchy and subordination in Britain and Ireland, co-edited with John Walter, Cambridge University Press, 2001
State formation in early modern England, c.1550-1700, Cambridge University Press, 2000

Other professional memberships and roles

Fellow of the British Academy
Editorial Board, Past and Present
Series Editor, Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History, CUP

Research awards and grants

2022-24 Wolfson/British Academy Research Professor
2022-26 AHRC Standard Research Grant ‘The politics of the English grain trade, 1315-1815’
2014 British Academy/Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship
2013 Distinguished Visiting Fellow, ARC Centre for the History of Emotions, University of Adelaide
2012 AHRC speculative research grant, ‘Participating in Search Design: A Study of George Thomason's English Newsbooks’
2011 Leverhulme International Network Grant: ‘The comparative history of political engagement’
2011 Professeur associé, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris
2004-7 Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship
1999 Visiting Fellow, Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt
1995-96 Nuffield Foundation Social Science Fellow
1991-92 British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Sheffield
1988 Bankhead Fellow, University of Alabama
1987 Thirlwall Studentship, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge

History of War Seminar Series: Michaelmas 2024

All events take place on Wednesdays at 17:15 in the Wharton Room, All Souls College, unless otherwise stated.

No booking required.

For more information contact Briony Truscott, briony.truscott@history.ox.ac.uk

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History of War, Michaelmas 2024, Seminar 4: Violent Seas: Experience, Representation, and Technology of Naval Warfare, 1665–1783

4th December 2024, 5:15 pm - 7:00 pm

Speaker: Sarah von Hagen (Göttingen)

Location: Wharton Room, All Souls College

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