Oxford School of Global and Area Studies - Oxford Talks

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Oxford School of Global and Area Studies part of: Social Sciences Division

Tuesday 18 November 2025

14:15 - Intersecting Penalties: Reproducing Inequality Among Palestinian Middle-Class Women
Professor Sarab Abu Rabia-Queder (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
Israel Studies Seminar
16:00 - Mekelle Stories: Life in Time of War
Co-hosted with Maison Française d'Oxford - please note venue address below.
Catherine Dom (Independent)
Northeast Africa Forum seminar series
16:00 - Mekelle Stories: Life in Time of War. Conversation around the newly published book
Catherine Dom (Independent)
Maison Française d'Oxford Events
17:00 - Round table on Brazilian elections
Laurence Whitehead (Nuffield College, Oxford)
LAC Main Seminar Series

Wednesday 19 November 2025

17:00 - Film Screening – A Place in the City, by Gabriel Silvestre
Dr Gabriel Silvestre (Newcastle University)

Thursday 20 November 2025

Friday 21 November 2025

10:30 - Incommensurable histories: Mexican Japanese life experiences during the Second World War - XIIth Guerra Seminar (In Paris)
Jointly organized with the Latin American History Center (CRALMI-Mondes Américains), Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, and the Research Center on American Worlds (CERMA-Mondes Américains), École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
Jessica Fernández de Lara Harada (Oxford)
Latin American History Seminar

Tuesday 25 November 2025

Thursday 27 November 2025

Friday 28 November 2025

17:00 - The Underground Network of Liberation Theology in Latin America
Niall Geraghty (UCL), Pablo Bradbury (Greenwich)
Latin American History Seminar

Tuesday 2 December 2025

14:15 - The Ottoman Production of Ashkenazi Identity
Dr Yair Wallach (SOAS Centre for Jewish Studies)
Israel Studies Seminar
16:00 - The making of an African tourist destination: Tourism development in post-independent Kenya
Hybrid event. Please use link below for webinar registration.
Mathias Hack (Universität Leipzig/IEG Mainz)
Northeast Africa Forum seminar series
17:00 - US and Latin America
Michael McKinley (Former US Ambassador in Perú, Brazil and Colombia)
LAC Main Seminar Series

Wednesday 3 December 2025

17:00 - What Comparative Area Studies (CAS) Brings to the Table: Leveraging and Integrating Area-Based Knowledge in the Social Sciences
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Professor Rudra Sil (University of Pennsylvania)
17:00 - What Comparative Area Studies (CAS) Brings to the Table: Leveraging and Integrating Area-Based Knowledge in the Social Sciences
Professor Rudra Sil (University of Pennsylvania)

Thursday 4 December 2025

15:30 - The Town and Gown in Ibadan: Re-exploring the Legends of Mbari
Olutayo C. Adesina (University of Ibadan)
African Studies Centre Research Seminars
17:00 - Federal Interventions and the Making of a Bourgeois Republic under Getúlio Vargas’ administrations in Brazil (1930–1945) - XIIIth Guerra Seminar (in Oxford)
Jointly organized with the Latin American History Center (CRALMI-Mondes Américains), Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, and the Research Center on American Worlds (CERMA-Mondes Américains), École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
Ana Laura Fraga (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), France)
Latin American History Seminar
17:00 - Dead Letters: Reuse, Recycling, and Emotions in Japanese Buddhist Manuscripts
Dr Halle O’Neal (University of Edinburgh)
Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

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