Monday 6 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Cosmopolitan Graves: Thamboosamy Pillai and Legacy Making and Unmaking in British Malaya
  Julia Stephens (Rutgers University)
  Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire

Tuesday 7 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Medical Ethics, Law, and Humanities
  TBA
  Oxford Medical Humanities
• 14:00 - Performing Sovereign Aspirations: Tamil Insurgency and Postwar Transition in Sri Lanka
  Bart Klem (Gothenburg University, Sweden)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 8 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Historical research in the time of the Anthropocene: can climate data help us read the past (and, if so, how)?
  Professor Nicola Di Cosmo (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
  Oxford Environmental History Network
• 17:00 - Historical research in the time of the Anthropocene: can climate data help us read the past (and, if so, how)?
  Nicola di Cosmo (Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton)
  Oxford Martin School Events
• 17:00 - Chinggis Khan’s Empire Restored? The Conquests of Tamerlane in a Mongol Perspective
  Professor Peter Jackson (Keele University)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - The Byzantine Craft of Enamelling and its Links with Islamic Metalwork, ca. 800-1204
  Natalija Ristovska (Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Seminar

Thursday 9 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Scents of China: A Modern History of Smell
  Dr Xuelei Huang (University of Edinburgh)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:00 - Localising and Resisting Western Knowledge and Colonial Ideas: Encounters and Trajectories in Twentieth-Century China
  Mengliu Chang (University of Pennsylvania), Henoch Gabriel Mandelbaum (University of São Paulo)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Friday 10 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - Medical Humanities PG-ECR Workshop
  TBA
  Oxford Medical Humanities
• 14:00 - Collaboration during the Second Sino-Japanese War
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group
• 17:00 - Making of the “Feebleminded”: Gender and Family for the Medical Discourse Around Eugenic Sterilization in 1950s Japan
  Dr Aya Homei (University of Manchester)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Tuesday 14 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - Periodizing Global History: What is Early Modernity? What is Modernity?
  Craig Clunas (Oxford; China), Faisal Devji (Oxford; Modern Islamic World), Azfar Moin (Texas; Mughals), Kiri Paramore (Cork; Japan/Confucianism), David Priestland (Oxford; Communist World), Joan-Pau Rubiés (Barcelona; Global Renaissance), Sadia Saeed (San Francisco; Historical Sociology), Alan Strathern (Oxford; Organiser)
  Oxford Centre for Global History events
• 14:00 - The nationalisation of rice. The postwar global crisis and the emergence of India’s national economy
  Jon Wilson (King's College London)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 16:15 - Royal letter-writing in the 16th century: the edition of the letters-missive of Francis I
  David Potter (University of Kent)
  Early Modern Diplomacy c.1400-1800

Wednesday 15 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Made in China: When US-China Interests Converged to Transform Global Trade
  Dr Elizabeth Ingleson (LSE)
  China Centre talks
• 17:00 - Qaum, Mulk, Sultanat: Citizenship and National Belonging in Pakistan
  Ali Usman Qasmi (LUMS)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Fourteenth-Century Byzantine History-Writers and the Problem of Emperors’ Family Ties
  James Cogbill (Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Seminar

Thursday 16 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:00 - Communication, Narratives and Antimicrobial Resistance Workshop
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Medical Humanities
• 17:00 - Navigating Geoeducational Dilemmas: Chinese Student Migration in Singapore
  Professor Zachary M. Howlett (YaleNUSCollege)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 17 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - Medical Humanities PG-ECR Workshop
  TBA
  Oxford Medical Humanities
• 11:00 - Redesigning AI
  Professor Daron Acemoğlu (MIT), Professor Isabelle Ferreras (University of Louvain), Professor Jeremias Adams-Prassl (Oxford), Dr Daniel Susskind (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Martin School Events
• 14:00 - Right-Wing Discourse in Online Chinese Spaces
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group
• 17:00 - Great Power Politics and Japan’s Immigration Dilemma
  Dr Anand Rao (SUNY Geneseo)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

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

• 15:00 - Itinerant Belonging: Gujarat’s Merchant Havelis and Occluded Histories of Indian Ocean Capitalism
  Ketaki Pant (University of Southern California)
  Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire
• 17:00 - Paradiplomacy in Hard Times: Cooperation and Confrontation in Subnational US-China Relations
  Professor Kyle Jaros (University of Notre Dame)
  China Centre talks

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

• 14:00 - “We are religious, patriotic, and self-sacrificial”: Baniya Power, Privilege, and Wealth Anxieties in India
  Ujithra Ponniah (Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Sinologist, Traveller, Governor, Spy: The Lives and Legacies of Sir Cecil Clementi, 17th Governor of Hong Kong
  Graham Hutchings (University of Oxford, University of Nottingham)
  China Centre talks

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

• 17:00 - (Global) value chains in a changing world: challenges and opportunities
  Dr Glenn Magerman (Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB))
  Oxford Martin School Events
• 17:00 - Valedictory Lecture – A ‘Class’-Less Society Japan? How is Inequality Interpreted Without the Concept of Class?
  Professor Takehiko Kariya (University of Oxford)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
• 17:00 - Post-Globalism and the Ulama: Contestation of Authority
  Professor Raihan Ismail (St Antony's College)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:15 - Creating the Louvre’s New Department of Byzantine and Eastern Christian Art: Issues and Challenges in a Turbulent World
  Please note this seminar is in the Auditorium, Corpus Christi College at 17:15
  Maximilien Durand (Musée du Louvre), Jannic Durand (Musée du Louvre)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Seminar

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

• 17:00 - Captain of the Roving Bandits: Spoken drama and the culture of Rural Pacification in Japanese-occupied China
  Professor Jeremy E Taylor (University of Nottingham)
  China Studies Seminar series

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

• 09:30 - Medical Humanities PG-ECR Workshop
  TBA
  Oxford Medical Humanities
• 09:30 - Medical Humanities PG-ECR Workshop
  TBA
  Oxford Medical Humanities
• 14:00 - Consumerism in China
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group
• 17:00 - Book Launch – Reopening the Opening of Japan: Transnational Approaches to Modern Japan and the Wider World
  Professor Sho Konishi (University of Oxford), Dr Lewis Bremner (University of Cambridge), Dr Chinami Oka (University of Oxford), Dr Mateja Kovacic (Hong Kong Baptist University), Joel Littler (University of Oxford), Dr Manimporok (Brown University)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

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

• 17:00 - Chinese Businessmen and the Economic Roots of American Cold War Power, 1938‒1955
  Professor Judd Kinzley (University of Wisconsin-Maddison)
  China Studies Seminar series

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

• 14:00 - Deconstructing State and Identity in Pakistan
  Various Speakers
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 16:15 - Sight and Sound in Royal Ceremonial: The Chapel Royal and Cross-Confessional Diplomacy (1558-1625)
  Oscar Davies Patton
  Early Modern Diplomacy c.1400-1800
• 17:00 - Why hydrogen is of strategic importance to scale-up the energy transition
  Dr Dirk Smit (Corporate Chief Scientist, Shell)
  Oxford Martin School Events

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

• 17:00 - Migration: past, present and future
  Professor Ian Goldin (Director, Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Development)
  Oxford Martin School Events
• 17:00 - Smugglers and States: Negotiating the Maghreb at its Margins
  Dr Max Gallien (University of Sussex)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Late Imperial China's Informal Connections to the World: Globalisation in the Networks Literati and the Commercial Settlement
  Dan Knorr (University of Cambridge), Zheng Chen (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
  International History of East Asia Seminar
• 17:15 - At the origins of raw materials diplomacy. Saltpeter trade in Renaissance Italy
  Fabrizio Ansani (Exeter)
  History of War Seminar Series

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

• 09:30 - Medical Humanities PG-ECR Workshop
  TBA
  Oxford Medical Humanities
• 14:00 - Early Chinese Communism
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group

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

• 15:00 - A Climate of State-Building in Equatorial Eastern Africa c.1840-1875
  Phillip Gooding (McGill University)
  Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire

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

• 13:00 - Medical Ethics, Law, and Humanities
  TBA
  Oxford Medical Humanities
• 17:00 - Transnational Literary and Infrastructure Connectivity in Modern China
  Weikang Zhang (University of Oxford), Xinyi Chi (Durham University)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

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

• 17:00 - The Fall of Kabul: Why It Happened and Why It Matters?
  Sir Laurie Bristow (Hughes Hall, Cambridge)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

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

• 17:00 - As if Heaven is Speaking: Astrology and the Discourse of Legitimacy in Early Medieval China
  Professor Lu Kou (Columbia University)
  China Studies Seminar series

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

• 09:30 - Medical Humanities PG-ECR Workshop
  TBA
  Oxford Medical Humanities
• 14:00 - Joint Session with the Oxford Taiwan Reading Group
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group

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

• 17:00 - Competition in the Gray Zone: A Cross-analysis of Taiwan and the South China Sea
  Diren Doğan (Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University)
  China Studies Seminar series

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

• 16:15 - Courtly Marriage
  Please note this seminar is in-person only and will be held in the Gerry Martin Room
  Hanna Sinclair, Max Diemer
  Early Modern Diplomacy c.1400-1800

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

• 17:00 - Iran’s Revolutionary Guards: A History
  Professor Maryam Alemzadeh (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Reassessing Republican China and the Taiwan Strait Crises
  Yi-Chuan (Nicholas) Chiu (University of Oxford), Qiang Zhang (University of Nottingham)
  International History of East Asia Seminar
• 17:15 - Compulsion, Compliance and Combat: New Perspectives on Napoleonic Conscription
  Graeme Callister (York St Johns)
  History of War Seminar Series

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

• 17:00 - SPECIAL OCBR LECTURE Justinian: Between East and West
  Please note this lecture will be on Thursday 13 June at Trinity College
  Peter Sarris (University of Cambridge)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Seminar

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

• 09:30 - Medical Humanities PG-ECR Workshop
  TBA
  Oxford Medical Humanities
• 14:00 - Pub Social @ Gardeners Arms on North Parade
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group

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

• 12:00 - China’s Military Rise: Two decades of catch up with the USA
  Professor Peter Robertson (University of Western Australia)
  China Centre talks

Thursday 17 October 2024 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:00 - Biotechnologies, Artificial Intelligence, and Human Identity
  TBA
  Oxford Medical Humanities

Wednesday 20 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - The Women Behind the Few: The Women's Auxiliary Air Force in British Air Intelligence During the Second World War
  Sarah-Louise Miller (Oxford)
  History of War Seminar Series