Thursday 25 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Buddhists in the Print Culture of Republican China
  Dr Gregory Scott (University of Manchester)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:00 - Professor Garth Fowden (University of Cambridge) | Orienting the Global First Millennium: Iranosphere Perspectives
  Garth Fowden (Cambridge)

Friday 26 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Migrant Approaches, Family Patterns and Social Integration: the Striving Teams' Family Migration in Contemporary China
  Mandarin presentation
  Professor Godfrey (Gaohui) Wu (Central South University, PR China)
  Mandarin Forum

Monday 29 April 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Book Launch Panel | Yuhan Sohrab-Dinshaw Vevaina - The Sūdgar Nask of Dēnkard Book 9 and Zoroastrian Hermeneutics in Late Antiquity
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 30 April 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Unfulfilled Dreams: China’s 'Liberal' Communist Party Intellectuals’ Struggle for Democracy from the 1930s to the 2000s
  Dr Verna Yu (University of Oxford)
  China Centre talks
• 17:00 - Dr Anahita Arian (Cambridge/ONGC) Encounters in the Persianate World: The Safavid Diplomatic Envoy to Siam
  Anahita Arian
  TOSCCA/ONGC Seminar series

Wednesday 1 May 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - How Regulation Can Revive China’s Sagging Economy?
  Professor Angela Zhang (University of Hong Kong)
  China Centre talks

Thursday 2 May 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Chairman Mao’s Children: Generation and the Politics of Memory in China
  Professor Bin Xu (Emory University)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:00 - Andrew Marsham (University of Cambridge) | ‘Re-Framing the Umayyad Empire: Pastoralists, Plague, and Peripheries’
  Andrew Marsham (Cambridge)

Friday 3 May 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:30 - Luke Treadwell (AMES/ St Cross) | Coin Legends and Protocol Texts in the 70s/690s: Emblematic Identity and Monetization of Exchange in the Umayyad State
  Luke Treadwell (University of Oxford)

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

• 17:00 - Aydogdy Qurbanov – Dehistan (South-West Turkmenistan) in the first half of the 1st Millennium CE
  Aydogdy Kurbanov (University of Lyon)
  TOSCCA/ONGC Seminar series

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

• 17:00 - Julia Bray (University of Oxford) |‘Medieval Arabic Literature: What Do You Know, and What Can You Do with It?’
  Professor Julia Bray (Oriental Studies, Oxford)
• 17:00 - Scents of China: A Modern History of Smell
  Dr Xuelei Huang (University of Edinburgh)
  China Studies Seminar series

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

• 17:00 - Landscape Paintings and Territorial Sovereignty in Socialist China
  Professor PANG Laikwan (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China
• 17:00 - Selbi Durdieva - ‘Hauntology, Inheritance, and Women’s Writing: Entangled Pasts in Turkmen Family Archives’
  Selbi Durdieva
  TOSCCA/ONGC Seminar series

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

• 17:00 - Navigating Geoeducational Dilemmas: Chinese Student Migration in Singapore
  Professor Zachary M. Howlett (YaleNUSCollege)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:00 - Hannah-Lena Hagemann (University of Hamburg) ‘“Behold! Quraysh is praying behind Bakr!” Kharijite Rebellion and Bakri Tribalism from al-Jazira to Iran 7th-9th c.’
  Hannah-Lena Hagemann (Hamburg)

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

• 10:00 - From Sicily to Sumatra: Conference in Honour of Professor Jeremy Johns
  Lev Arie Kapitaikin (Tel Aviv University), Ruba Kana'an (University of Toronto), Marcus Milwright (University of Victoria / University of York), Teresa Bernheimer (LMU (Munich)), Mariam Rosser-Owen (V&A (London)), Elvira Miceli (University of Oxford), Joseph O'Hara (University of Oxford), Laura Hinrichsen (Scholar), Peter Nagy (Qatar Museums), Julian Raby (Smithsonian Institution), Jessica Rahardjo

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

• 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)

• 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
• 17:00 - Dr Thomas Welsford (All Souls) An Armenian Liberal in Revolutionary Samarkand
  Dr Thomas Welsford (All Souls)
  TOSCCA/ONGC Seminar series

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

• 17:00 - Alebachew Belay (Debre Berhan University) | ‘Connected “Pagans” from Medieval Ethiopia: Monumental and Artifactual Evidence’
  Alebachew Belay (Debre Berhan University)
• 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

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)

• 17:00 - Dr Stefan Williamson Fa (ONGC) Connections and Dis/continuities in Contemporary Aşıq Practice in Georgia
  Stefan Williamson Fa:
  TOSCCA/ONGC Seminar series

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

• 09:00 - Workshop | Mountains and the Historian
  Various Speakers
• 17:00 - Louise Rayne (Newcastle University) | ‘Detecting Irrigation and Desertification in the Middle East and North Africa Since the Medieval Period’
  Louise Rayne (Newcastle University)

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

• 17:00 - Vali Kaleji: Iran’s Relations with the Republics of Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia in the First Period of Independence (1917-1921)
  Vali Kaleji
  TOSCCA/ONGC Seminar series

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
• 17:00 - Dan Reynolds (University of Birmingham) | ‘Charlemagne’s Jerusalem: Rhetoric, Exegesis and the Ninth-Century “Holy Land”’
  Dan Reynolds (Birmingham)

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)

• 17:00 - Dr Matthias Battis (ONGC) | Stalinabad 1930: Aleksandr Semenov and the convergence of scholarship and politics at the Tajik language congress
  Dr Matthias Battis (ONGC)
  TOSCCA/ONGC Seminar series

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

• 17:00 - Professor Peter Sarris (University of Cambridge) | JUSTINIAN BETWEEN EAST AND WEST
  Peter Sarris (University of Cambridge)

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