Tuesday 28 October 2025

• 14:15 - The Ethics of the Mothers: Field notes on Mizrahi women's religion of care
  Dr Angy Cohen
  Israel Studies Seminar
• 16:00 - Digital scapes beyond capture? How resistance movements in Africa are shaping the way we think
  Hybrid event. For webinar registration, please use the link below.
  Prince Guma (Cambridge)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series
• 17:00 - Presidential Personalities and Constitutional Power Grabs in Latin America, 1945-2021
  Ignacio Arana Araya (Carnegie Mellon University)
  LAC Main Seminar Series

Thursday 30 October 2025

• 15:30 - Soldier's Paradise: Militarism in Africa after Empire
  Samuel Fury Childs Daly (University of Chicago)
  African Studies Centre Research Seminars
• 17:00 - Culture Must Be Defended: Japanese Conservatism and International Relations
  Dr Karin Narita (University of Sheffield)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
• 17:00 - División de poderes, diseño institucional y actores políticos. Argentina, siglos XIX y XX
  Laura Cucchi (Lateinamerika-Institut (Freie Universität Berlin) and LAC), Eduardo Zimmermann (Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina)
  Latin American History Seminar

Tuesday 4 November 2025

• 14:15 - From Separation to a Shared Homeland: Notes on Settler-Colonial Urbanism in Israel/Palestine
  Professor Haim Yacobi (Bartlett Development Planning Unit)
  Israel Studies Seminar
• 17:00 - The BBC in Latin America: Aligning Journalism and Academia to Make Sense of Today's World
  TBA
  LAC Main Seminar Series

Thursday 6 November 2025

• 15:30 - Does Ethnic Stacking Work?: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Ascriptive Loyalty for Coup Proofing
  Kristen A. Harkness (University of St. Andrews)
  African Studies Centre Research Seminars
• 17:00 - Banned Histories: Indigenous Life In Death Records C. 1815 Mexico
  Please note this seminar is in-person only
  Miriam Melton-Villanueva (University of Nevada, USA)
  Latin American History Seminar
• 17:00 - Set My Heart Bonfire? (Dis)embodiment in Japanese Fiction and Literary Translation
  Helen O’Horan
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
• 17:00 - Semiconductors and Transitional Justice: Reassessing Taiwan’s Place in the East Asian Order
  Professor Chung-Min Tsai (National Chengchi University), Professor Yen-Pin Su (National Chengchi University)
  Oxford Taiwan Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 11 November 2025

• 14:15 - Is the Gaza War the End or the Beginning of Romantic Religious Zionism?
  Dr Shlomo Fischer (Jewish People Policy Institute in Jerusalem)
  Israel Studies Seminar
• 16:30 - Panel on the 2026 Elections in Brazil
  Please note this session will have an early start
  Timothy Power (University of Oxford, OSGA), Saul Tourinho, Malu Gatto (University College London), Felipe Krause (University of Oxford)
  LAC Main Seminar Series

Thursday 13 November 2025

• 15:30 - Saharan Winds: Energy Systems and Aeolian Imaginaries in Western Sahara
  Joanna Allan
  African Studies Centre Research Seminars
• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  Latin American History Seminar
• 17:00 - Words That Move: Emotions in Abe Shinzō’s Foreign Policy Rhetoric
  Professor Raymond Yamamoto (Aarhus University)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Friday 14 November 2025

• 19:00 - Latin American Centre Fourth Alumni London Networking Drinks
  TBA

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
• 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

• 15:30 - Selling Healing: Creative Arts and Health Communication in Ghana
  Ama de-Graft Aikins (University of Ghana/London School of Economics and Political Science)
  African Studies Centre Research Seminars
• 17:00 - Asesor en las sombras: Alvaro Puga, un propagandista de los servicios de inteligencia de Pinochet
  Juan Cristóbal Peña (Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Chile)
  Latin American History Seminar
• 17:00 - Surnames, Same Sex Marriage, and the Interesting Evolution of Constitutional Litigation in Japan
  Professor Colin P.A. Jones (Doshisha Law School)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

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

• 14:15 - Student volunteering in historical perspective: debates and tensions in Israeli higher education
  Dr Adi Sapir (University of Haifa)
  Israel Studies Seminar
• 17:00 - Institutions and Civil Society Organizations: Experimental evidence from Peru
  Paula Muñoz Chirinos (Universidad del Pacífico)
  LAC Main Seminar Series

Thursday 27 November 2025

• 15:30 - The Soldier, the Activist, and the Writer: On Telling a Family Story of Colonial Afterlives
  Simukai Chigudu (University of Oxford)
  African Studies Centre Research Seminars
• 17:00 - How Firms, Bureaucrats, and Ministries Benefit from the Revolving Door: Evidence from Japan
  Professor Trevor Incerti (University of Amsterdam)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

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
• 17:00 - US and Latin America
  Michael McKinley (Former US Ambassador in Perú, Brazil and Colombia)
  LAC Main Seminar Series

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 - Dead Letters: Reuse, Recycling, and Emotions in Japanese Buddhist Manuscripts
  Dr Halle O’Neal (University of Edinburgh)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
• 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