Lecture Series: Islam and Slavery with Justin Marozzi
Mondays at 5.00pm — 3, 10, 17, and 24 November
Noel Salter Room, New College, Holywell Street, Oxford OX1 3BN
Historian and author Justin Marozzi will deliver a four-part series exploring the long and complex history of slavery in the Islamic world, drawing on research spanning more than a millennium and across multiple regions.
All students and staff are warmly welcome.
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Seminar Series: The Ethics of Responsibility with Reidar Due
Tuesdays at 5.00pm — 4, 11, 18, and 25 November
Ursell Room, Pusey House, St Giles’, Oxford OX1 3LZ
This seminar series explores a French tradition of ethics in the work of Paul Ricoeur and Jacques Derrida, where ethics is understood not as rules for action but as responsibility in a broader, existential sense—responsibility for memory, the past, and unrealised futures.
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The Pharos Christmas Lecture 2025
Margaret MacMillan – World Orders: Past, Present, and Future
Wednesday 26 November, 5.00–7.00pm
Holywell Music Room, Oxford
One of the world’s most distinguished historians reflects on the apparent decline of the international order created after 1945, and the uncertainties of the emerging global landscape. Drawing on historical parallels, Professor Margaret MacMillan examines how political orders rise, fracture, and transform — and asks what the future may hold.
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