Department: Oxford School of Global and Area Studies
Talks:

Tuesday 14 October 2025

Hustle Urbanism: Making Life Work in Nairobi
Date: 14 October 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker s: Tatiana Thieme (University College London), Sangwon Chae (Oxford)
Venue: 13 Bevington Road, 13 Bevington Road OX2 6NB
Venue Details: Seminar Room, African Studies Centre
Organiser: Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

On The Peculiarities Of Latin American Culture
Date: 14 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Héctor Abad Faciolince
Venue: Latin American Centre Library, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room, Latin American Centre, 1 Church Walk, Oxford
Organiser: Eduardo Posada-Carbó
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 16 October 2025

Bridge Contracts for Mobile Money in Kenya
Date: 16 October 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Speaker : Jonathan Greenacre (Boston University)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Dahrendorf Room
Organisers: Michael Odijie (University of Oxford), Dr Miles Tendi (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Scandals, Secrets and News: How Manuscripts Reshape Our Knowledge of Edo Culture
Date: 16 October 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Professor Peter Kornicki (University of Cambridge)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor Gateway Building
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: Professor Kristi Govella (University of Oxford), Professor Hugh Whittaker (University of Oxford)

Friday 17 October 2025

Translated Scholarship and Japanese Universities: How Have Translations of Western Scholarship into Japanese Affected and Biased Japanese Academia?
Date: 17 October 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Professor Takehiko Kariya (University of Oxford)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Syndicate Room, Old Main Building
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: Professor Kristi Govella (University of Oxford), Professor Hugh Whittaker (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 21 October 2025

Precarious Labour in Precarious Times: The Impact of the War in Israel/Palestine on Non-Citizen Workers
Date: 21 October 2025, 14:15 - 15:45
Speaker : Dr Maayan Nietza (University of Liverpool)
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar room 5
Organiser: Dr Davidi Borabeck (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Davidi Borabeck (University of Oxford)

The Amazonian Common Use Territory: Pluriverse or Insurgent Universality?
Date: 21 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
Venue: Latin American Centre Library, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room, Latin American Centre, 1 Church Walk, Oxford
Organiser: Eduardo Posada-Carbó
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 22 October 2025

Between Vernacular and Academic Discourses: Cooperation and Competition in Knowledge Production in Georgia
Date: 22 October 2025, 14:00 - 18:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Syndicate Room, St. Antony's College
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 23 October 2025

Political belonging in the Ghana-Togo borderlands: citizenship and the vote at the margins of the state
Date: 23 October 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Speaker : Nathalie Raunet (University of Birmingham)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Dahrendorf Room
Organisers: Michael Odijie (University of Oxford), Dr Miles Tendi (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Regional Financial Arrangements in East Asia
Date: 23 October 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Dr Yoichi Nemoto (Hitotsubashi University)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor Gateway Building
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: Professor Kristi Govella (University of Oxford), Professor Hugh Whittaker (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 28 October 2025

The Ethics of the Mothers: Field notes on Mizrahi women's religion of care
Date: 28 October 2025, 14:15 - 15:45
Speaker : Dr Angy Cohen
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar room 5
Organiser: Dr Davidi Borabeck (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Davidi Borabeck (University of Oxford)

Presidential Personalities and Constitutional Power Grabs in Latin America, 1945-2021
Date: 28 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Ignacio Arana Araya (Carnegie Mellon University)
Venue: Latin American Centre Library, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Eduardo Posada-Carbó
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 30 October 2025

Soldier's Paradise: Militarism in Africa after Empire
Date: 30 October 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Speaker : Samuel Fury Childs Daly (University of Chicago)
Venue Details: Online via Teams - see link under booking below
Organisers: Michael Odijie (University of Oxford), Dr Miles Tendi (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Culture Must Be Defended: Japanese Conservatism and International Relations
Date: 30 October 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Dr Karin Narita (University of Sheffield)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor Gateway Building
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: Professor Kristi Govella (University of Oxford), Professor Hugh Whittaker (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 4 November 2025

From Separation to a Shared Homeland: Notes on Settler-Colonial Urbanism in Israel/Palestine
Date: 4 November 2025, 14:15 - 15:45
Speaker : Professor Haim Yacobi (Bartlett Development Planning Unit)
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar room 5
Organiser: Dr Davidi Borabeck (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Davidi Borabeck (University of Oxford)

Thursday 6 November 2025

Does Ethnic Stacking Work?: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Ascriptive Loyalty for Coup Proofing
Date: 6 November 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Speaker : Kristen A. Harkness (University of St. Andrews)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Dahrendorf Room
Organisers: Michael Odijie (University of Oxford), Dr Miles Tendi (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Set My Heart Bonfire? (Dis)embodiment in Japanese Fiction and Literary Translation
Date: 6 November 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Helen O’Horan
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor Gateway Building
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: Professor Kristi Govella (University of Oxford), Professor Hugh Whittaker (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 11 November 2025

Is the Gaza War the End or the Beginning of Romantic Religious Zionism?
Date: 11 November 2025, 14:15 - 15:45
Speaker : Dr Shlomo Fischer (Jewish People Policy Institute in Jerusalem)
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar room 5
Organiser: Dr Davidi Borabeck (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Davidi Borabeck (University of Oxford)

Panel on the 2026 Brazilian Elections
Date: 11 November 2025, 16:30 - 18:00
Speaker s: Timothy Power (University of Oxford, OSGA), Andreza de Souza Santos (King's College London), Saul Tourinho, Malu Gatto (University College London)
Venue: Latin American Centre Library, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Felipe Krause (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 13 November 2025

Saharan Winds: Energy Systems and Aeolian Imaginaries in Western Sahara
Date: 13 November 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Speaker : Joanna Allan
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Dahrendorf Room
Organisers: Michael Odijie (University of Oxford), Dr Miles Tendi (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Words That Move: Emotions in Abe Shinzō’s Foreign Policy Rhetoric
Date: 13 November 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Professor Raymond Yamamoto (Aarhus University)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Syndicate Room, Old Main Building
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: Professor Kristi Govella (University of Oxford), Professor Hugh Whittaker (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 18 November 2025

Intersecting Penalties: Reproducing Inequality Among Palestinian Middle-Class Women
Date: 18 November 2025, 14:15 - 15:45
Speaker : Professor Sarab Abu Rabia-Queder (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar room 5
Organiser: Dr Davidi Borabeck (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Davidi Borabeck (University of Oxford)

Thursday 20 November 2025

Selling Healing: Creative Arts and Health Communication in Ghana
Date: 20 November 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Speaker : Ama de-Graft Aikins (University of Ghana/London School of Economics and Political Science)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Dahrendorf Room
Organisers: Michael Odijie (University of Oxford), Dr Miles Tendi (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Surnames, Same Sex Marriage, and the Interesting Evolution of Constitutional Litigation in Japan
Date: 20 November 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Professor Colin P.A. Jones (Doshisha Law School)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor Gateway Building
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: Professor Kristi Govella (University of Oxford), Professor Hugh Whittaker (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 25 November 2025

Student volunteering in historical perspective: debates and tensions in Israeli higher education
Date: 25 November 2025, 14:15 - 15:45
Speaker : Dr Adi Sapir (University of Haifa)
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar room 5
Organiser: Dr Davidi Borabeck (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Davidi Borabeck (University of Oxford)

Institutions and Civil Society Organizations: Experimental evidence from Peru
Date: 25 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Paula Muñoz Chirinos (Universidad del Pacífico)
Venue: Latin American Centre Library, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room, Latin American Centre, 1 Church Walk, Oxford
Organiser: Eduardo Posada-Carbó
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 27 November 2025

The Soldier, the Activist, and the Writer: On Telling a Family Story of Colonial Afterlives
Date: 27 November 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Speaker : Simukai Chigudu (University of Oxford)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Dahrendorf Room
Organisers: Michael Odijie (University of Oxford), Dr Miles Tendi (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

How Firms, Bureaucrats, and Ministries Benefit from the Revolving Door: Evidence from Japan
Date: 27 November 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Professor Trevor Incerti (University of Amsterdam)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor Gateway Building
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: Professor Kristi Govella (University of Oxford), Professor Hugh Whittaker (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 2 December 2025

The Ottoman Production of Ashkenazi Identity
Date: 2 December 2025, 14:15 - 15:45
Speaker : Dr Yair Wallach (SOAS Centre for Jewish Studies)
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar room 5
Organiser: Dr Davidi Borabeck (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Davidi Borabeck (University of Oxford)

Thursday 4 December 2025

The Town and Gown in Ibadan: Re-exploring the Legends of Mbari
Date: 4 December 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Speaker : Olutayo C. Adesina (University of Ibadan)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Dahrendorf Room
Organisers: Michael Odijie (University of Oxford), Dr Miles Tendi (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Dead Letters: Reuse, Recycling, and Emotions in Japanese Buddhist Manuscripts
Date: 4 December 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Dr Halle O’Neal (University of Edinburgh)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor Gateway Building
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: Professor Kristi Govella (University of Oxford), Professor Hugh Whittaker (University of Oxford)