Thursday 16 October 2025

• 17:00 - Seeking the Origins: Reconsidering the Impact of 'Origins of the Śākyas' (Shishi yuanliu 釋氏源流) on Ming Book Culture
  Dr Noga Ganany (University of Cambridge)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:15 - The Tower of the Winds in Ottoman Athens: temple, pharos, tent and mosque
  Elizabeth Key Fowden (Cambridge)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Friday 17 October 2025

• 12:00 - The Strategic Foundations of International Economic Order: China, Bretton Woods, and the Cold War
  Professor Amy King (Australian National University)
  China Centre talks

Tuesday 21 October 2025

• 17:00 - Autocracy 2.0: How China's Rise Reinvented Tyranny
  Professor Jennifer Lind (Dartmouth)
  China Centre talks

Thursday 23 October 2025

• 17:00 - Remembering the Nanjing Massacre: Three Theses Revisited
  Dr Licheng Qian (Birmingham City University)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:15 - Collecting Iznik: the Benaki Museum, its patrons and influences in twentieth-century Greece
  Mina Moraitou (Benaki Museum, Athens)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Wednesday 29 October 2025

• 12:00 - The Southern Tour: Deng Xiaoping and the Fight for China’s Future
  Dr Jonathan Chatwin
  China Centre talks

Thursday 30 October 2025

• 17:00 - Ritualizing Filial Debt: Narrative and Performance in Chinese Popular Religious Storytelling
  Professor Xiaosu Sun (University of Oxford)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:15 - Clothing the Caliphate: dress cultures of the early Islamic period
  Jochen Sokoly (VCUarts Qatar)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Tuesday 4 November 2025

• 17:00 - Film screening: This is Life 烟火人间
  Mandarin with English Subtitles. Producer Q&A.
  Dr Jing Wang (University of Oxford)
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China

Wednesday 5 November 2025

• 12:00 - Memoirs of a Confucius Institute Director: Challenges, Controversies, and Realities
  Professor Jinghan Zeng (City University of Hong Kong)
  China Centre talks

Thursday 6 November 2025

• 17:00 - Semiconductors and Transitional Justice: Reassessing Taiwan’s Place in the East Asian Order
  Professor Tsai Chung-ming (National Chengchi University), Professor Yen-Pin Su (National Chengchi University)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:15 - From Bosphorus to Nile: mapping, depicting, and portraying the Ottoman imperial world in the late eighteenth century
  Ayşe Hilal Uğurlu (MEF University, Istanbul)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Monday 10 November 2025

• 14:00 - Above the Dust: Film screening + Q&As with Film Director
  Wang Xiaoshuai (Film Director)

Wednesday 12 November 2025

• 12:00 - The Once and Future World Order: Why Global Civilization Will Survive the Decline of the West
  Professor Amitav Acharya (The American University)
  China Centre talks

Thursday 13 November 2025

• 17:00 - Knowing Hands: Hand-memory Techniques and Handy Knowledge in Ming Daily-use Encyclopedias
  Dr Marta Hanson (Center for Advanced Studies - Erlangen)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:15 - Translating the image: art, science and global imagination in the first Islamic description of the New World (Tarih-i Hind-i Garbi)
  Sinem Arcak Casale (Minnesota)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Thursday 20 November 2025

• 17:15 - New directions in the study of ivories from the Islamic world: a talk and handling session
  Mariam Rosser-Owen (V&A, and Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars
• 17:30 - Film Screening & Director Q&A: To Kill a Mongolian Horse
  This film screening will take place at St John's College. Booking required.
  Xiaoxuan Jiang (Film Director)
  China Studies Seminar series

Thursday 27 November 2025

• 16:00 - What was modern Islamic art?
  William Gallois (Exeter)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars
• 17:00 - The Soul-loosing Grid (mihun zhen 迷魂陣) and other Novelese Battle Arrays (zhen 陣): A Tentative Exploration of a 'Fictional' Reconstruction of Military Arts, Taoist Rituals, Performing Arts and Black Magic
  Professor Vincent Durand-Dastès (INALCO, Paris)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:15 - Documenting Multiculturalism: The Arabic Documents of Sicily
  Jeremy Johns (Khalili Research Centre), Dan Burt (Khalili Research Centre)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Wednesday 3 December 2025

• 17:00 - Created in Canton: The Past and Present of Pith Paper Watercolours
  Professor Liu Zhiwei (Zhongshan University), Professor May Bo Ching (City University Hong Kong), Lyu Ziyuan

Thursday 4 December 2025

• 17:00 - The Making of a Neglected Disease: Trachoma Research and Control in Twentieth-century China
  Mary Augusta Brazelton (Cambridge)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:15 - Painting and poetry at the court of Fath Ali Shah Qajar (1797–1834)
  Fuchsia Hart (Victoria and Albert Museum)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars