Wednesday 19 November 2025

• 17:00 - Making Sense of the Fourth Plenum & China’s New Five-Year Plan
  Dr Yu Jie (Chatham House)
  China Centre talks

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

Friday 21 November 2025

• 12:00 - Beyond Rivalry: How Americans and Chinese View Global Justice
  Professor Xiaojun Li (The University of British Columbia)
  China Centre talks

Monday 24 November 2025

• 12:00 - Is China Building a Rival International Order and How Would We Know?
  Professor Matthew D. Stephen (Helmut Schmidt University)
  China Centre talks

Thursday 27 November 2025

• 12:00 - Navigating Welfare Boundary: Experiences of Migrant Families across Chinese Metropolises
  Professor Qiaobing Wu (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
• 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

Friday 28 November 2025

• 17:00 - Between Yin and Yang: The Art of Femininity and Masculinity
  Various Speakers

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

Friday 5 December 2025

• 17:00 - Baillie Gifford Distinguished Lecture (China Centre)
  Dame Caroline Wilson
  Baillie Gifford Distinguished Speaker Series