Tuesday 14 October 2025

• 16:00 - Hustle Urbanism: Making Life Work in Nairobi
  Hybrid event. For webinar registration, please use the link below.
  Tatiana Thieme (University College London), Sangwon Chae (Oxford)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series
• 17:00 - On The Peculiarities Of Latin American Culture
  This is the Inaugural Lecture of the LAC Academic Year
  Héctor Abad Faciolince
  LAC Main Seminar Series

Thursday 16 October 2025

• 15:30 - Bridge Contracts for Mobile Money in Kenya
  Jonathan Greenacre (Boston University)
  African Studies Centre Research Seminars
• 17:00 - Scandals, Secrets and News: How Manuscripts Reshape Our Knowledge of Edo Culture
  Professor Peter Kornicki (University of Cambridge)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Friday 17 October 2025

• 17:00 - Translated Scholarship and Japanese Universities: How Have Translations of Western Scholarship into Japanese Affected and Biased Japanese Academia?
  Professor Takehiko Kariya (University of Oxford)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Tuesday 21 October 2025

• 14:15 - Precarious Labour in Precarious Times: The Impact of the War in Israel/Palestine on Non-Citizen Workers
  Dr Maayan Nietza (University of Liverpool)
  Israel Studies Seminar
• 17:00 - The Amazonian Common Use Territory: Pluriverse or Insurgent Universality?
  TBA
  LAC Main Seminar Series

Wednesday 22 October 2025

• 14:00 - Between Vernacular and Academic Discourses: Cooperation and Competition in Knowledge Production in Georgia
  Various Speakers

Thursday 23 October 2025

• 15:30 - Political belonging in the Ghana-Togo borderlands: citizenship and the vote at the margins of the state
  Nathalie Raunet (University of Birmingham)
  African Studies Centre Research Seminars
• 17:00 - Regional Financial Arrangements in East Asia
  Dr Yoichi Nemoto (Hitotsubashi University)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

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
• 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

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

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 - Set My Heart Bonfire? (Dis)embodiment in Japanese Fiction and Literary Translation
  Helen O’Horan
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

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 Brazilian Elections
  Timothy Power (University of Oxford, OSGA), Andreza de Souza Santos (King's College London), Saul Tourinho, Malu Gatto (University College London)
  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 - Words That Move: Emotions in Abe Shinzō’s Foreign Policy Rhetoric
  Professor Raymond Yamamoto (Aarhus University)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

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

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 - 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

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

Tuesday 2 December 2025

• 14:15 - The Ottoman Production of Ashkenazi Identity
  Dr Yair Wallach (SOAS Centre for Jewish Studies)
  Israel Studies Seminar

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