Events of Interest to the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Talks:

Monday 20 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

Itinerant Belonging: Gujarat’s Merchant Havelis and Occluded Histories of Indian Ocean Capitalism
Date: 20 May 2024, 15:00 - 16:00 (Monday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Ketaki Pant (University of Southern California)
Venue Details: Online
Organiser: Itamar Toussia Cohen (Brasenose College)
Hosts: TBA

Paradiplomacy in Hard Times: Cooperation and Confrontation in Subnational US-China Relations
Date: 20 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Monday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Professor Kyle Jaros (University of Notre Dame)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 21 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

“We are religious, patriotic, and self-sacrificial”: Baniya Power, Privilege, and Wealth Anxieties in India
Date: 21 May 2024, 14:00 - 15:30 (Tuesday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Ujithra Ponniah (Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser: Thiruni Kelegama (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Dr. Thomas Nelson (Wolfson) “(Re)constructing Tradition in the Hellenistic Jewish Epics by Philo and Theodotus”
Date: 21 May 2024, 14:00 - 15:00 (Tuesday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Dr. Thomas Nelson (Wolfson)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Open scholarship: your thesis, copyright and ORA
Date: 21 May 2024, 15:00 - 16:00 (Tuesday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker s: David Watson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Thomas Mitchell (Bodleian Libraries)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

2024 McCandless Lecture
Date: 21 May 2024, 15:45 - 16:45 (Tuesday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Dr Derek C. Hatch (Howard Payne University)
Venue: Regent's Park College, Pusey Street OX1 2LB
Venue Details: The Collier Room
Organiser: Centre for Baptist Studies
Hosts: TBA

Air Pollution in the 21st Century – Time for a New Approach
Date: 21 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Tuesday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Dr Gary Fuller (Imperial College, London)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Sinologist, Traveller, Governor, Spy: The Lives and Legacies of Sir Cecil Clementi, 17th Governor of Hong Kong
Date: 21 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Tuesday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Graham Hutchings (University of Oxford, University of Nottingham)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)

Dr Thomas Welsford (All Souls) An Armenian Liberal in Revolutionary Samarkand
Date: 21 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Tuesday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Dr Thomas Welsford (All Souls)
Venue: New College, Holywell Street OX1 3BN
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 22 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

Displacement and Documentary Film: A Conversation with Marc Isaacs
Date: 22 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Wednesday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Associate Professor Marc Isaacs (University College London)
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Tsuzuki Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Post-Globalism and the Ulama: Contestation of Authority
Date: 22 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Wednesday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Professor Raihan Ismail (St Antony's College)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

If Hong Kong is really over
Date: 22 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Wednesday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Dr Kim Wah Chung
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Verna Yu (University of Oxford)

Thursday 23 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

The Battle of the Birds: William Colenso, Walter Buller, Witi Ihimaera, and the materiality of avian fables
Date: 23 May 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Thursday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Kaori Nagai (University of Kent)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: History of the Book Room
Organisers: Pablo Mukherjee (University of Oxford), Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford), Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Captain of the Roving Bandits: Spoken drama and the culture of Rural Pacification in Japanese-occupied China
Date: 23 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Thursday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Professor Jeremy E Taylor (University of Nottingham)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organisers: Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford), Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford), Dr Xiaojing Miao (University of Oxford), Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford), Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford), Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford), Dr Chigusa Yamaura (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Xiaojing Miao (University of Oxford)

Connected “Pagans” from Medieval Ethiopia: Monumental and Artifactual Evidence
Date: 23 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Thursday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Alebachew Belay (Debre Berhan University)
Venue: Trinity College, Broad Street OX1 3BH
Venue Details: Teaching Room 5, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Alebachew Belay (Debre Berhan University) | ‘Connected “Pagans” from Medieval Ethiopia: Monumental and Artifactual Evidence’
Date: 23 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Thursday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Alebachew Belay (Debre Berhan University)
Venue: Trinity College, Broad Street OX1 3BH
Venue Details: Trinity College | Levine Building Auditorium
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 24 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

Governance of the Water Community in the South-central Region of the People's Republic of China
Date: 24 May 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Friday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Professor Yunxian Ren (Nanchang Hangkong University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lucina Ho Seminar Room (first floor)
Organiser: Dr Annie Hongping Nie
Host: Dr Annie Hongping Nie (University of Oxford)

The Latin Confucius. The Translation techniques of the Confucius Sinarum Philosophus (1687)
Date: 24 May 2024, 14:00 - 15:30 (Friday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker s: Simone Mollea (Università di Torino), Elisa della Calce (Università di Torino)
Venue: 66 St Giles', 66 St Giles' OX1 3LU
Venue Details: Ioannou Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Right-Wing Discourse in Online Chinese Spaces
Date: 24 May 2024, 14:00 - 15:00 (Friday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Ho Tim Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Jewish Hospitality as Counter-Cultural Masculinity in Luke and Acts
Date: 24 May 2024, 14:30 - 15:30 (Friday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Benjamin Isachsen (Balliol)
Venue: Keble College, Parks Road OX1 3PG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tibetan Manuscripts and Early Printed Books: Book talk and roundtable discussion
Date: 24 May 2024, 16:30 - 18:00 (Friday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker s: Dr Lama Jabb (University of Oxford), Prof Ulrike Roesler (University of Oxford), Charles Manson (University of Oxford), Prof. em. Matthew Kapstein (EPHE, Paris), Dr Hildegard Diemberger (University of Cambridge), Dr Sam van Schaik (British Library)
Venue: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium,
Organiser: Prof Ulrike Roesler (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 27 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

Chinese Businessmen and the Economic Roots of American Cold War Power, 1938‒1955
Date: 27 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Monday, 6th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Professor Judd Kinzley (University of Wisconsin-Maddison)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organisers: Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford), Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford), Dr Xiaojing Miao (University of Oxford), Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford), Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford), Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford), Dr Chigusa Yamaura (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 28 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

Sebastian Kenny (Corpus Christi) “Language Contact in Ezekiel’s Exagoge: The Case for Pattern Replication”
Date: 28 May 2024, 14:00 - 15:00 (Tuesday, 6th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Sebastian Kenny (Corpus Christi)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Deconstructing State and Identity in Pakistan
Date: 28 May 2024, 14:00 - 15:30 (Tuesday, 6th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser: Thiruni Kelegama (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Building Resilient Education Systems: Evidence from Large-Scale Randomized Trials in Five Countries
Date: 28 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Tuesday, 6th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Professor Noam Angrist (University of Oxford)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Dr Stefan Williamson Fa (ONGC) Connections and Dis/continuities in Contemporary Aşıq Practice in Georgia
Date: 28 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Tuesday, 6th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Stefan Williamson Fa:
Venue: New College, Holywell Street OX1 3BN
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 29 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

Smugglers and States: Negotiating the Maghreb at its Margins
Date: 29 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Wednesday, 6th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Dr Max Gallien (University of Sussex)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 30 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

Workshop | Mountains and the Historian
Date: 30 May 2024, 9:00 - 17:00 (Thursday, 6th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room, Ground Floor, Radcliffe Humanities Building, Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6GG
Organiser: Professor Christian Sahner (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Revisiting Rashīd al-Dīn al-Hamadhānī's Theological Works
Date: 30 May 2024, 15:00 - 16:00 (Thursday, 6th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Yusuf Chaudhary (University of Cambridge)
Venue: Pembroke College, St Aldates OX1 1DW
Venue Details: Eccles Room
Organiser: Yaseen Christian Andrewsen (University of Oxford)
Host: Yaseen Christian Andrewsen (University of Oxford)

Detecting Irrigation and Desertification in the Middle East and North Africa Since the Medieval Period
Date: 30 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Thursday, 6th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Louise Rayne (Newcastle University)
Venue: Trinity College, Broad Street OX1 3BH
Venue Details: Teaching Room 5, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Louise Rayne (Newcastle University) | ‘Detecting Irrigation and Desertification in the Middle East and North Africa Since the Medieval Period’
Date: 30 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Thursday, 6th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Louise Rayne (Newcastle University)
Venue: Trinity College, Broad Street OX1 3BH
Venue Details: Trinity College | Levine Building Auditorium
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 31 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

Daring translation and mistranslation: Stephen Weston and the Qianlong emperor’s poetry on chicken cups (with a note on Keats’s reception of Eastern and Western Classics)
Date: 31 May 2024, 14:00 - 15:30 (Friday, 6th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Justine Potts (Oxford)
Venue: 66 St Giles', 66 St Giles' OX1 3LU
Venue Details: Ioannou Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Early Chinese Communism
Date: 31 May 2024, 14:00 - 16:00 (Friday, 6th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Ho Tim Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Annunciation (PNTC 2/3)
Date: 31 May 2024, 14:30 - 15:30 (Friday, 6th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Prof Mark Wynn (Oxford)
Venue: Keble College, Parks Road OX1 3PG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 3 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

A Climate of State-Building in Equatorial Eastern Africa c.1840-1875
Date: 3 June 2024, 15:00 - 16:00 (Monday, 7th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Phillip Gooding (McGill University)
Venue Details: Online
Organiser: Itamar Toussia Cohen (Brasenose College)
Hosts: TBA

Sultan Azlan Shah Lecture: "Can International Law make a Difference in Time of War?"
Date: 3 June 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Monday, 7th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Sir Christopher Greenwood (University of Cambridge)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 4 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

Open scholarship: playing in the open: getting familiar with creative commons licences
Date: 4 June 2024, 11:30 - 13:00 (Tuesday, 7th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker s: Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Science Library, off Parks Road OX1 3QP
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Dr. Rebekah van Zant-Clark (Oriel) “’New Exodus’ Typology and Supersessionism in 20th Century Isaiah Scholarship”
Date: 4 June 2024, 14:00 - 15:00 (Tuesday, 7th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Rebekah Van Sant-Clark (University of Oxford)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Vali Kaleji: Iran’s Relations with the Republics of Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia in the First Period of Independence (1917-1921)
Date: 4 June 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Tuesday, 7th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Vali Kaleji
Venue: New College, Holywell Street OX1 3BN
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 5 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

The Fall of Kabul: Why It Happened and Why It Matters?
Date: 5 June 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Wednesday, 7th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Sir Laurie Bristow (Hughes Hall, Cambridge)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 6 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

As if Heaven is Speaking: Astrology and the Discourse of Legitimacy in Early Medieval China
Date: 6 June 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Thursday, 7th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Professor Lu Kou (Columbia University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organisers: Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford), Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford), Dr Xiaojing Miao (University of Oxford), Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford), Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford), Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford), Dr Chigusa Yamaura (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Xiaojing Miao (University of Oxford)

Charlemagne’s Jerusalem: Rhetoric, Exegesis and the Ninth-Century “Holy Land”
Date: 6 June 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Thursday, 7th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Dan Reynolds (Birmingham)
Venue: Trinity College, Broad Street OX1 3BH
Venue Details: Teaching Room 5, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Dan Reynolds (University of Birmingham) | ‘Charlemagne’s Jerusalem: Rhetoric, Exegesis and the Ninth-Century “Holy Land”’
Date: 6 June 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Thursday, 7th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Dan Reynolds (Birmingham)
Venue: Trinity College, Broad Street OX1 3BH
Venue Details: Trinity College | Levine Building Auditorium
Organisers: Fanny Bessard (History/Trinity College, Oxford), Professor Christian Sahner (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 7 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

Latinizing Chinese and Sinicizing Latin: a joint examination of Angelo Zottoli’s translations of Tang poetry
Date: 7 June 2024, 14:00 - 15:30 (Friday, 7th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker s: Cynthia Liu (Oxford), Xiaojing Miao (Oxford)
Venue: 66 St Giles', 66 St Giles' OX1 3LU
Venue Details: Ioannou Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Joint Session with the Oxford Taiwan Reading Group
Date: 7 June 2024, 14:00 - 16:00 (Friday, 7th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Ho Tim Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Paul, Divestment, and Salvific Almsgiving
Date: 7 June 2024, 14:30 - 15:30 (Friday, 7th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Hunter Brown (Keble)
Venue: Keble College, Parks Road OX1 3PG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 10 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

Competition in the Gray Zone: A Cross-analysis of Taiwan and the South China Sea
Date: 10 June 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Monday, 8th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Diren Doğan (Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organisers: Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford), Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford), Dr Xiaojing Miao (University of Oxford), Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford), Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford), Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford), Dr Chigusa Yamaura (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 11 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

Prof. Paul Michael Kurtz (Universiteit Gent) “Another View on Ancient Judaism: Catholic Scholarship in the German South, 1820–1880”
Date: 11 June 2024, 14:00 - 15:00 (Tuesday, 8th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Prof. Paul Michael Kurtz (Universiteit Gent)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Open scholarship: logistics of open scholarship
Date: 11 June 2024, 14:30 - 16:00 (Tuesday, 8th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

The Uses of 'Tafsira' in the Cambridge Library Aljamiado MS
Date: 11 June 2024, 15:00 - 16:00 (Tuesday, 8th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Fadoua El-Heziti (Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies)
Venue: Pembroke College, St Aldates OX1 1DW
Venue Details: Eccles Room
Organiser: Yaseen Christian Andrewsen (University of Oxford)
Host: Yaseen Christian Andrewsen (University of Oxford)

Dr Matthias Battis (ONGC) | Stalinabad 1930: Aleksandr Semenov and the convergence of scholarship and politics at the Tajik language congress
Date: 11 June 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Tuesday, 8th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Dr Matthias Battis (ONGC)
Venue: New College, Holywell Street OX1 3BN
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 12 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards: A History
Date: 12 June 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Wednesday, 8th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Professor Maryam Alemzadeh (University of Oxford)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 13 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

Open scholarship: preregistration and registered reports: what, why, and how
Date: 13 June 2024, 15:00 - 16:30 (Thursday, 8th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Jackie Thompson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Ibn al-Qayyim’s Approach to Critiquing Maghāzī in Zād al-Maʿād
Date: 13 June 2024, 15:00 - 16:00 (Thursday, 8th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Oumama Emad Hamasha (Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies)
Venue: Pembroke College, St Aldates OX1 1DW
Venue Details: Eccles Room
Organiser: Yaseen Christian Andrewsen (University of Oxford)
Host: Yaseen Christian Andrewsen (University of Oxford)

Justinian Between East and West
Date: 13 June 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Thursday, 8th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Peter Sarris (Cambridge)
Venue: Trinity College, Broad Street OX1 3BH
Venue Details: Levine Building Auditorium, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Professor Peter Sarris (University of Cambridge) | JUSTINIAN BETWEEN EAST AND WEST
Date: 13 June 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Thursday, 8th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Peter Sarris (University of Cambridge)
Venue: Trinity College, Broad Street OX1 3BH
Venue Details: Trinity College | Levine Building Auditorium
Organisers: Fanny Bessard (History/Trinity College, Oxford), Professor Christian Sahner (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

How We Hate Now: Xenophobia in the Age of Anti-Racism
Date: 13 June 2024, 17:15 - 18:15 (Thursday, 8th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Madhumita Lahiri (U of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Okinaga Room
Organisers: Pablo Mukherjee (University of Oxford), Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford), Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 14 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

Religion, Race, and Concepts of Difference in the Modern Middle East
Date: 14 June 2024, 9:00 - 17:00 (Friday, 8th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
Venue: Jesus College, Turl Street OX1 3DW
Venue Details:
Organiser: Dr Henry Clements (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Pub Social @ Gardeners Arms on North Parade
Date: 14 June 2024, 14:00 - 16:00 (Friday, 8th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Consciousness of the Historical Jesus (PNTC 3/3)
Date: 14 June 2024, 14:30 - 15:30 (Friday, 8th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Austin Stevenson (Palm Beach Atlantic University)
Venue: Keble College, Parks Road OX1 3PG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 20 June 2024 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

China’s Military Rise: Two decades of catch up with the USA
Date: 20 June 2024, 12:00 - 13:00 (Thursday, 9th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Professor Peter Robertson (University of Western Australia)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Rachel Murphy (University of Oxford)

Friday 21 June 2024 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

Balliol Welcoming Panel
Date: 21 June 2024, 9:00 - 10:30 (Friday, 9th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker s: Elena Lombardi (Balliol College), John-Paul Ghobrial (Balliol College), Nicola Trott (Balliol College), Diego Zancani (Balliol College), Christine Borgman (UCLA), Joanna Weinberg (Exeter College)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Host: Elena Lombardi (Balliol College)

Conditioned Arising in Buddhism and Biology: Lessons from the Commentaries of Won Hyo, and Stefano Zacchetti’s work on the Da Zhidu Lun
Date: 21 June 2024, 11:00 - 11:30 (Friday, 9th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Professor Denis Noble (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Kate Crosby (Balliol College)
Host: Cathy Cantwell (University of Oxford)

Translating Medicine Across Cultures: The Divergent Strategies of An Shigao and Dharmarakṣa in Introducing Indian Medical Concepts to China
Date: 21 June 2024, 11:30 - 12:00 (Friday, 9th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Lu Lu (Zhejiang University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Host: Cathy Cantwell (University of Oxford)

A Commentarial Fork in the Road: A Parting of Ways in the Indian and Chinese Versions of the Ratnagotravibhāga
Date: 21 June 2024, 12:00 - 12:30 (Friday, 9th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Christopher V. Jones (University of Vienna)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Kate Crosby (Balliol College)
Host: Cathy Cantwell (University of Oxford)

“Best of Sages” or “Seventh of Sages”: Isi-sattama in Pāli Atthakathā
Date: 21 June 2024, 13:30 - 13:50 (Friday, 9th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Qingniao Li (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Host: Robert Mayer (University of Oxford)

A commentary as Buddhavacana: The composition of the Vinayavibhaṅga and its interplay with the Sūtra-Piṭaka
Date: 21 June 2024, 13:50 - 14:10 (Friday, 9th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Ven. Wanyu Zhang (Farong) (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Host: Robert Mayer (University of Oxford)

In Praise of the Eminent Monk: Remarks on the Life and Works of Dharmarakṣa 竺法護 through the Study of Colophons
Date: 21 June 2024, 14:10 - 14:30 (Friday, 9th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Yunyao Zhai (Harvard University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Host: Robert Mayer (University of Oxford)

Traces and Fragments of Early Prajñāpāramitā Exegesis in Anonymous Quotations in the Da zhidu lun (*Mahāprajñāpāramitopadeśa)
Date: 21 June 2024, 14:30 - 15:00 (Friday, 9th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Ven. Tuan Huynh (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Host: Robert Mayer (University of Oxford)

Inviting the Perfection of Wisdom to Tibet: Translation, Circulation, and the Role of Inventories
Date: 21 June 2024, 15:30 - 16:00 (Friday, 9th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Ulrike Roesler (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Host: Camillo Formigatti (University of Oxford)

Atiśa’s Commentary on the “Perfection of Wisdom in One Hundred Thousand Lines”
Date: 21 June 2024, 16:00 - 16:30 (Friday, 9th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Marek Mejor (University of Warsaw)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Host: Camillo Formigatti (University of Oxford)

Not so adamantine after all: the influence of commentary on the textual development of the Vajracchedikā
Date: 21 June 2024, 16:30 - 17:00 (Friday, 9th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Paul Harrison (Stanford University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Host: Camillo Formigatti (University of Oxford)

Stefano Zacchetti’s Last (Posthumous) Monograph, its Significance, and Its Place in his Scholarship
Date: 21 June 2024, 18:15 - 18:45 (Friday, 9th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Michael Radich (Heidelberg University)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Host: Christopher V. Jones (University of Vienna)

The Unpublished Scholarly Legacy of Stefano Zacchetti: a Few Remarks
Date: 21 June 2024, 18:45 - 19:15 (Friday, 9th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Jonathan Silk (Leiden University)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Host: Christopher V. Jones (University of Vienna)

The translators of Stefano’s Dazhidulun Monograph into Chinese
Date: 21 June 2024, 19:15 - 19:45 (Friday, 9th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker s: Chen Jinhua (University of British Columbia), Zhao You (Peking University)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Host: Christopher V. Jones (University of Vienna)

Saturday 22 June 2024 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

Preliminary Exploration of Texts and Annotations in Various Languages of The Sarasvatī-parivarta from The Suvarṇaprabhāsottama-sūtra《金光明經·大辯才天女品》諸語種文本及其注疏初探
Date: 22 June 2024, 9:00 - 09:30 (Saturday, 9th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Ming Chen (Peking University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Host: Matthew Orsborn (Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts)

Hešeri Rushan and the Tuṣita (Doushuai 兜率) Heaven School 赫舍里如山與“兜率宗”
Date: 22 June 2024, 9:30 - 10:00 (Saturday, 9th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Jidong Chen (Aoyama Gakuin University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Host: Matthew Orsborn (Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts)

The Specific Usages, Characteristics, and Sources of "All" in Early Chinese Translations of Buddhist Scriptures 早期汉译佛经“一切”的特殊用法、性质及其来源
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 22 June 2024, 10:00 - 10:30 (Saturday, 9th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Yichen Meng
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Host: Matthew Orsborn (Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts)

Death and Rebirth in the Third-Century State of Wu 吳: transmigration described in the Liudu ji jing 六度集經 (T152)
Date: 22 June 2024, 11:00 - 11:30 (Saturday, 9th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Janine Nichol (Independent scholar)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Host: Marta Sernesi (École Pratique des Hautes Études — PSL)

Indic Linguistics’ Influence on the Formation and Interpretation of Chinese Buddhist Lexicon
Date: 22 June 2024, 11:30 - 12:00 (Saturday, 9th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Paolo Visigalli (Shanghai Normal University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Host: Marta Sernesi (École Pratique des Hautes Études — PSL)

Translation and Commentary at the Dawn of Chinese Buddhism: New Light from An Shigao’s Yin chi ru jing and its Commentary
Date: 22 June 2024, 12:00 - 12:30 (Saturday, 9th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Eric Greene (Yale University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Host: Marta Sernesi (École Pratique des Hautes Études — PSL)

A Five Dynasties Manuscript in relation to Tang Buddhist culture: A Study of S.3728 from the British Library
Date: 22 June 2024, 13:30 - 14:00 (Saturday, 9th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Nelson Landry (University of Hamburg)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Host: Francesca Tarocco (Ca' Foscari University of Venice)

Daoist Gods Explaining Buddhist Texts: Buddhist Exegesis through Spirit-Writing in Qing China
Date: 22 June 2024, 14:00 - 14:30 (Saturday, 9th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Qijun Zheng (École Pratique des Hautes Études - Université PSL)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Host: Francesca Tarocco (Ca' Foscari University of Venice)

Jifa 吉法 – Variations of Maṅgala in Chinese Buddhist Writing
Date: 22 June 2024, 14:30 - 15:00 (Saturday, 9th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Zhao You (Peking University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Host: Francesca Tarocco (Ca' Foscari University of Venice)

A Gāndhārī exegetical text corresponding to part of the *Āryavasumitrabodhisattvasaṃgītiśāstra
Date: 22 June 2024, 15:30 - 16:00 (Saturday, 9th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Francesco Barchi (Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Host: Norihisa Baba (University of Tokyo)

Buddhist Homiletics as Social Commentary
Date: 22 June 2024, 16:00 - 16:30 (Saturday, 9th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Péter-Dániel Szántó (ELTE Budapest)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Host: Norihisa Baba (University of Tokyo)

The special dead and the living virtuosi: religious ideals in the Deccan in the Middle Period of Indian Buddhism
Date: 22 June 2024, 16:30 - 17:00 (Saturday, 9th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Vincent Tournier (École française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO))
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Host: Norihisa Baba (University of Tokyo)

The Scripture in Forty-two Sections (Sishier zhang jing 四十二章經, T784): Reconsidering an Enigmatic Text
Date: 22 June 2024, 17:45 - 19:00 (Saturday, 9th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Jan Nattier (University of California at Berkeley)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: SCR Dining Room
Organiser: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Host: Paul Harrison (Stanford University)

Monday 24 June 2024 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

The Path to a New Humanitarian World Order: Upholding Human Dignity and Climate Integrity
Date: 24 June 2024, 5:00 - 06:30 (Monday, 10th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal (Nelson Mandela Fellow, OCIS)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 4 July 2024 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

Open scholarship: copyright the card game
Date: 4 July 2024, 9:30 - 12:30 (Thursday, 11th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker s: Chris Morrison (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Science Library, off Parks Road OX1 3QP
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 8 July 2024 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

Open scholarship: forum of open scholarship
Date: 8 July 2024, 14:00 - 15:30 (Monday, 12th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 16 July 2024 (13th Week, Trinity Term)

Open scholarship: fundamentals of open access
Date: 16 July 2024, 10:30 - 12:00 (Tuesday, 13th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

This list contains talks from the following series:
9th Ratanbai Katrak Lectures
After Rome and Further East Seminar
China Centre talks
China Studies Seminar series
George Rousseau Lectures
Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
Greco-Roman and East-Asian Classics events (Janus Project)
Grinfield Lectures on The Septuagint 2024 | SÉBASTIEN MORLET - “The Plurality of the Biblical Text - Past and Present”
Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire
Interreligious Interactions in South Asia (Virtual Colloquium)
Islamicate Intellectual History Seminar Series
Magic, Maths, Mamluks, and Mongols: History of Islamic Science at the Boundaries
Mandarin Forum
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Middle East Centre Seminar Series
Modern Jewish Thought Seminar
Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
New Testament Seminar
Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
Open Scholarship
Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
Oxford Centre for Global History events
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies - Events
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
Oxford China Reading Group
Oxford China Reading Group (OxCRG)
Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar
Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures
RSC Trinity Term Public Seminar Series
Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)
SEMINAR ON JEWISH HISTORY AND LITERATURE IN THE GRAECO-ROMAN PERIOD
Silence and Visuality Seminar Series in Armenian Art and History
South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
The 54th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies: Material Religion in Byzantium & Beyond
TOSCCA/ONGC Seminar series
TOSCCA/ONGC Seminar series on the Caucasus and Central Asia
Transnational & Global History Seminar
Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China