Fellow @OrielOxford | early modern history of science & religion; history of astrology 💫🌜 (formerly Michelle Aroney)
Oxford, England
Joined June 2016
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I'm excited to announce that my book, Inventing Immortality, is now out with @OxUniPress in their Oxford-Warburg series.
It's about people who thought ancient pagans invented the soul, but more broadly its about how academic scholarship fares when let loose in the public sphere
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Tomorrow afternoon at our Oxford Divination network: a talk by Dr Tom Gavin on ancient divination beyond Delphi. Please do come along if you're around - all are welcome!
Tomorrow afternoon at our Oxford Divination network: a talk by Dr Tom Gavin on ancient divination beyond Delphi. Please do come along if you're around - all are welcome!
Such a delight to chair wonderful talks by Tony Grafton and Joanna Weinberg at Sir Noel Malcolm's retirement at All Souls College last week. I love Noel's joy in this photo!
Some highlights from Forecasting the Weather between Science and Divination at Oxford last week @TORCHOxford
Michelle Pfeffer retweeted
Tomorrow! 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
@SimonDolet and I are very happy to share the programme for our hybrid conference, Forecasting the Weather, Between Divination and Science, 8-9 October, in Oxford and online. For the full programme and to register, see the link in my bio
⛈️⛈️⛈️Tomorrow at @magdalenoxford, the wonderful Catherine Ross from the @metoffice will be speaking about the true story behind the film Pressure ⛈️⛈️⛈️
All welcome; no need to register!
I wrote a feature article in @HistoryToday based on my book, Inventing Immortality 👇
Is the soul immortal, or does it die with the body? At the turn of the 18th century, amateur theologians like Henry Layton began to speculate, much to experts’ chagrin.
🔒 Michelle Pfeffer’s October article is available in the archive
buff.ly/PnuaW2H
My new (open access!) article in @HistoricalJnl looks at 18th-century celebrity through William Warburton and his famously formidable Divine Legation of Moses.
How do you turn 2,000+ pages of dense, 'sleepy' scholarship into a public sensation? 👇
We have a second public lecture on the history of weather forecasting! 🌦️
On 9 Oct, Louisiane Ferlier (@royalsociety) explores the Royal Society’s meteorological archive & the development of forecasting before the @metoffice.
📍 Schwarzman Centre, Oxford | 9 Oct, 5.30pm 👇
The D-Day forecast: From synoptic charts to the silver screen 🌦️🎬
Join us for a public lecture at @magdalenoxford on 8 Oct as @metoffice’s Catherine Ross explores the D-Day weather forecast and the history behind Pressure.
📍 Magdalen College, Oxford | 8 Oct | 5.30pm 👇
Michelle Pfeffer retweeted
The D-Day forecast: From synoptic charts to the silver screen 🌦️🎬
Join us for a public lecture at @magdalenoxford on 8 Oct as @metoffice’s Catherine Ross explores the D-Day weather forecast and the history behind Pressure.
📍 Magdalen College, Oxford | 8 Oct | 5.30pm 👇
The first trailer for ‘Pressure’ is here, the film which tells the story of the most important weather forecast; the D-Day forecast.
Andrew Scott stars as Group Captain James Stagg – the Met Office meteorologist tasked with delivering the weather forecast and helping shape D-Day's plans.
In cinemas 9 September.
#pressuremovie @StudiocanalUK
The D-Day forecast: From synoptic charts to the silver screen 🌦️🎬
Join us for a public lecture at @magdalenoxford on 8 Oct as @metoffice’s Catherine Ross explores the D-Day weather forecast and the history behind Pressure.
📍 Magdalen College, Oxford | 8 Oct | 5.30pm 👇
The first trailer for ‘Pressure’ is here, the film which tells the story of the most important weather forecast; the D-Day forecast.
Andrew Scott stars as Group Captain James Stagg – the Met Office meteorologist tasked with delivering the weather forecast and helping shape D-Day's plans.
In cinemas 9 September.
#pressuremovie @StudiocanalUK
Tonight! 💫
Tonight's Lecture - Astrology in Renaissance - Michelle Pfeffer - Zoom
#Astrology #Renaissance #MichellePfeffer @TheLastTuesdayS
ALT https://thelasttuesdaysociety.org/event/astrology-in-renaissance-michelle-pfeffer-zoom/
@SimonDolet and I are very happy to share the programme for our hybrid conference, Forecasting the Weather, Between Divination and Science, 8-9 October, in Oxford and online. For the full programme and to register, see the link in my bio
Michelle Pfeffer retweeted
If you are in #Edinburgh for EHSS/HSS, join us on this session reconsidering the history of #almanacs and their role in our knowledge of time and the cosmos. A session that I organised with I. Falconer (StAndrews) and will be chaired by M. Pfeffer (Oxford)! #histsci
Michelle Pfeffer retweeted
I'm excited to announce that my book, Inventing Immortality, is now out with @OxUniPress in their Oxford-Warburg series.
It's about people who thought ancient pagans invented the soul, but more broadly its about how academic scholarship fares when let loose in the public sphere