Monday 26 May 2025

• 10:00 - Postgraduate Workshop: Locating Central Asia in Global History: Some Thoughts on Writing Central Asia: A New History
  Professor Adeeb Khalid (Carleton College, MN)
  2025 Astor Lecturer events
• 12:00 - Institutional Genes: The Origins of China’s Institutions and Totalitarianism
  Dr Chenggang Xu (Stanford University)
  China Centre talks
• 14:15 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  TBA
  Environment and Resource Economics Seminar
• 16:00 - Title TBC
  Registration required for Zoom
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Moiz Tundawala (University of Oxford)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminars
• 16:00 - Bringing War Back In
  Luis Schenoni (UCL)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
• 16:30 - The Royal Court and the Sejm in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Seventeenth Century
  Katarzyna Kosior (Northumbria University)
  Court Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - People as property? Captives and slaves in medieval Iberia
  Teresa Witcombe (St John's College, Oxford)
  Medieval History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Russia's relations with the USA
  Dr Ruth Deyermond (King's College London)
  RESC Monday Seminar
• 17:00 - How to Move the Masses on Chinese Social Media: A Narrative-Platform Approach
  Professor Guobin Yang (University of Pennsylvania)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:15 - Trapped By Experience, Freed By Imagination: Post-Capitalist Literature
  Shimon Adaf (Ben Gurion University in the Negev)
  Massada Public Seminars

Tuesday 27 May 2025

• 09:00 - AI & Global Health
  Dr Chris Paton (University of Oxford), Dr Pratap Kumar (UCL & Strathmore)
  HIGH-Q Exchange Webinar Series
• 09:30 - Introduction to Presentation Skills (in-person)
  The course will cover the key principles of planning and delivering a successful talk, and help to build your confidence. Each subject area in the MPLS Division has its own specific requirements for research presentations: please note that this course does not seek to address these.
  Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford)
• 09:30 - Get that fellowship (in-person)
  This session will help you to understand the do's and don'ts of application. It will guide you through the process and explain the support that is available. A holder of a research fellowship will discuss their application experience.
  Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division), Zoe Lee (University of Oxford)
• 09:30 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  CAMS Oxford Institute Seminars
• 12:00 - Immunosenescence: opportunities to reduce macrophage functional decline in ageing
  Join us in person or remotely via Teams - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk
  Dr Heather Wilson (School of Medicine and Population Health, University of Sheffield)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 12:15 - Feeling Aliene, Now and Then: Work, Contemplation, and Alienation between Medieval Devotion and Modern Academia / The Speaking Dead: Conversing with the Living from Beyond the Grave in Early English Literature
  Rowan Wilson (University of Oxford), Anine Eglund (University of Oxford)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 12:30 - Title TBC
  Hakeem Jefferson (Stanford Univesity)
  Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
• 12:30 - Beyond ‘toxic bodies’: Political rationalities and women’s reproductive health concerns in a high-environmental risk area (Taranto, Italy)
  Maaret Jokela-Pansini (School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford)
  Fertility and Reproductive Studies Group
• 13:00 - Title TBC
  TBA
  Econometrics Lunch
• 13:00 - Journal club: Risk factors for stroke
  Please contact maxine.florey-hill@ndcn.ox.ac.uk for remote meeting access
  Dr Oluwaseemo Osomo (University of Oxford)
  NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme
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