Department: Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Talks:

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

Buddhists in the Print Culture of Republican China
Date: 25 April 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Thursday, 1st week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Dr Gregory Scott (University of Manchester)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organisers: Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford), Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford), Dr Xiaojing Miao (University of Oxford), Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford), Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford), Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford), Dr Chigusa Yamaura (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Xiaojing Miao (University of Oxford)

Professor Garth Fowden (University of Cambridge) | Orienting the Global First Millennium: Iranosphere Perspectives
Date: 25 April 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Thursday, 1st week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Garth Fowden (Cambridge)
Venue: Trinity College, Broad Street OX1 3BH
Venue Details: Trinity College | Levine Building Auditorium
Organisers: Fanny Bessard (History/Trinity College, Oxford), Professor Christian Sahner (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

Migrant Approaches, Family Patterns and Social Integration: the Striving Teams' Family Migration in Contemporary China
Date: 26 April 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Friday, 1st week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Professor Godfrey (Gaohui) Wu (Central South University, PR China)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lucina Ho Seminar Room (first floor)
Organiser: Dr Annie Hongping Nie
Host: Dr Annie Hongping Nie (University of Oxford)

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

Book Launch Panel | Yuhan Sohrab-Dinshaw Vevaina - The Sūdgar Nask of Dēnkard Book 9 and Zoroastrian Hermeneutics in Late Antiquity
Date: 29 April 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Monday, 2nd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: Auditorium
Organiser: Professor Christian Sahner (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

Dr Anahita Arian (Cambridge/ONGC) Encounters in the Persianate World: The Safavid Diplomatic Envoy to Siam
Date: 30 April 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Tuesday, 2nd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Anahita Arian
Venue: New College, Holywell Street OX1 3BN
Venue Details: Lecture Room 6, New College
Organiser: Alexander Morrison (New College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Unfulfilled Dreams: China’s 'Liberal' Communist Party Intellectuals’ Struggle for Democracy from the 1930s to the 2000s
Date: 30 April 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Tuesday, 2nd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Dr Verna Yu (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)

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

How Regulation Can Revive China’s Sagging Economy?
Date: 1 May 2024, 12:00 - 13:00 (Wednesday, 2nd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Professor Angela Zhang (University of Hong Kong)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

Chairman Mao’s Children: Generation and the Politics of Memory in China
Date: 2 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Thursday, 2nd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Professor Bin Xu (Emory University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organisers: Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford), Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford), Dr Xiaojing Miao (University of Oxford), Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford), Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford), Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford), Dr Chigusa Yamaura (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford)

Andrew Marsham (University of Cambridge) | ‘Re-Framing the Umayyad Empire: Pastoralists, Plague, and Peripheries’
Date: 2 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Thursday, 2nd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Andrew Marsham (Cambridge)
Venue: Trinity College, Broad Street OX1 3BH
Venue Details: Trinity College | Levine Building Auditorium
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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

Luke Treadwell (AMES/ St Cross) | Coin Legends and Protocol Texts in the 70s/690s: Emblematic Identity and Monetization of Exchange in the Umayyad State
Date: 3 May 2024, 16:30 - 17:30 (Friday, 2nd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Luke Treadwell (University of Oxford)
Venue: Oriental Institute, 11 Pusey Lane OX1 2LE
Venue Details: AMES Faculty Building, 1 Pusey Lane Lecture Room 1
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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

Aydogdy Kurbanov – Dehistan (South-West Turkmenistan) in the first half of the 1st Millennium CE
Date: 7 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Tuesday, 3rd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Aydogdy Kurbanov (University of Lyon)
Venue: New College, Holywell Street OX1 3BN
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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

Julia Bray (University of Oxford) |‘Medieval Arabic Literature: What Do You Know, and What Can You Do with It?’
Date: 9 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Thursday, 3rd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Professor Julia Bray (Oriental Studies, Oxford)
Venue: Trinity College, Broad Street OX1 3BH
Venue Details: Trinity College | Levine Building Auditorium
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Scents of China: A Modern History of Smell
Date: 9 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Thursday, 3rd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Dr Xuelei Huang (University of Edinburgh)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organisers: Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford), Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford), Dr Xiaojing Miao (University of Oxford), Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford), Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford), Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford), Dr Chigusa Yamaura (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Xiaojing Miao (University of Oxford)

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

Landscape Paintings and Territorial Sovereignty in Socialist China
Date: 14 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Tuesday, 4th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Professor PANG Laikwan (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organiser: Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford)

Selbi Durdieva - ‘Hauntology, Inheritance, and Women’s Writing: Entangled Pasts in Turkmen Family Archives’
Date: 14 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Tuesday, 4th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Selbi Durdieva
Venue: New College, Holywell Street OX1 3BN
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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

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.’
Date: 16 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Thursday, 4th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Hannah-Lena Hagemann (Hamburg)
Venue: Trinity College, Broad Street OX1 3BH
Venue Details: Trinity College | Levine Building Auditorium
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Navigating Geoeducational Dilemmas: Chinese Student Migration in Singapore
Date: 16 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Thursday, 4th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Professor Zachary M. Howlett (YaleNUSCollege)
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organisers: Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford), Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford), Dr Xiaojing Miao (University of Oxford), Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford), Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford), Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford), Dr Chigusa Yamaura (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Matthew Erie (University of Oxford)

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

From Sicily to Sumatra: Conference in Honour of Professor Jeremy Johns
Date: 17 May 2024, 10:00 - 16:00 (Friday, 4th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker s: 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
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium
Organisers: Prof Alain George (University of Oxford), Kate Kwok (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

Paradiplomacy in Hard Times: Cooperation and Confrontation in Subnational US-China Relations
Date: 20 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Monday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Professor Kyle Jaros (University of Notre Dame)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 21 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

Dr Thomas Welsford (All Souls) An Armenian Liberal in Revolutionary Samarkand
Date: 21 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Tuesday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Dr Thomas Welsford (All Souls)
Venue: New College, Holywell Street OX1 3BN
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Sinologist, Traveller, Governor, Spy: The Lives and Legacies of Sir Cecil Clementi, 17th Governor of Hong Kong
Date: 21 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Tuesday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Graham Hutchings (University of Oxford, University of Nottingham)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)

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

Alebachew Belay (Debre Berhan University) | ‘Connected “Pagans” from Medieval Ethiopia: Monumental and Artifactual Evidence’
Date: 23 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Thursday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Alebachew Belay (Debre Berhan University)
Venue: Trinity College, Broad Street OX1 3BH
Venue Details: Trinity College | Levine Building Auditorium
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Captain of the Roving Bandits: Spoken drama and the culture of Rural Pacification in Japanese-occupied China
Date: 23 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Thursday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Professor Jeremy E Taylor (University of Nottingham)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organisers: Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford), Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford), Dr Xiaojing Miao (University of Oxford), Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford), Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford), Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford), Dr Chigusa Yamaura (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Xiaojing Miao (University of Oxford)

Monday 27 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

Chinese Businessmen and the Economic Roots of American Cold War Power, 1938‒1955
Date: 27 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Monday, 6th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Professor Judd Kinzley (University of Wisconsin-Maddison)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organisers: Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford), Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford), Dr Xiaojing Miao (University of Oxford), Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford), Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford), Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford), Dr Chigusa Yamaura (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 28 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

Dr Stefan Williamson Fa (ONGC) Connections and Dis/continuities in Contemporary Aşıq Practice in Georgia
Date: 28 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Tuesday, 6th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Stefan Williamson Fa:
Venue: New College, Holywell Street OX1 3BN
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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

Workshop | Mountains and the Historian
Date: 30 May 2024, 9:00 - 17:00 (Thursday, 6th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room, Ground Floor, Radcliffe Humanities Building, Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6GG
Organiser: Professor Christian Sahner (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Louise Rayne (Newcastle University) | ‘Detecting Irrigation and Desertification in the Middle East and North Africa Since the Medieval Period’
Date: 30 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Thursday, 6th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Louise Rayne (Newcastle University)
Venue: Trinity College, Broad Street OX1 3BH
Venue Details: Trinity College | Levine Building Auditorium
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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

Vali Kaleji: Iran’s Relations with the Republics of Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia in the First Period of Independence (1917-1921)
Date: 4 June 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Tuesday, 7th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Vali Kaleji
Venue: New College, Holywell Street OX1 3BN
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 6 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

As if Heaven is Speaking: Astrology and the Discourse of Legitimacy in Early Medieval China
Date: 6 June 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Thursday, 7th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Professor Lu Kou (Columbia University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organisers: Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford), Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford), Dr Xiaojing Miao (University of Oxford), Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford), Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford), Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford), Dr Chigusa Yamaura (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Xiaojing Miao (University of Oxford)

Dan Reynolds (University of Birmingham) | ‘Charlemagne’s Jerusalem: Rhetoric, Exegesis and the Ninth-Century “Holy Land”’
Date: 6 June 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Thursday, 7th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Dan Reynolds (Birmingham)
Venue: Trinity College, Broad Street OX1 3BH
Venue Details: Trinity College | Levine Building Auditorium
Organisers: Fanny Bessard (History/Trinity College, Oxford), Professor Christian Sahner (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 10 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

Competition in the Gray Zone: A Cross-analysis of Taiwan and the South China Sea
Date: 10 June 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Monday, 8th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Diren Doğan (Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organisers: Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford), Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford), Dr Xiaojing Miao (University of Oxford), Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford), Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford), Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford), Dr Chigusa Yamaura (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 11 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

Dr Matthias Battis (ONGC) | Stalinabad 1930: Aleksandr Semenov and the convergence of scholarship and politics at the Tajik language congress
Date: 11 June 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Tuesday, 8th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Dr Matthias Battis (ONGC)
Venue: New College, Holywell Street OX1 3BN
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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

Professor Peter Sarris (University of Cambridge) | JUSTINIAN BETWEEN EAST AND WEST
Date: 13 June 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Thursday, 8th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Peter Sarris (University of Cambridge)
Venue: Trinity College, Broad Street OX1 3BH
Venue Details: Trinity College | Levine Building Auditorium
Organisers: Fanny Bessard (History/Trinity College, Oxford), Professor Christian Sahner (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 20 June 2024 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

China’s Military Rise: Two decades of catch up with the USA
Date: 20 June 2024, 12:00 - 13:00 (Thursday, 9th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Professor Peter Robertson (University of Western Australia)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Rachel Murphy (University of Oxford)