Department: Oxford School of Global and Area Studies
Talks:

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: 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)

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 13 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : TBA
Venue: 1 Church Walk, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Latin American Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 14 November 2025

The Four Talent Giants: Talent Development Strategies in Japan, Australia, China, and India and Their Implications for Korea
Date: 14 November 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Professor Gi-Wook Shin (Stanford University)
Venue: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium,
Venue Details: Wolfson College
Organisers: Dr Jieun Kiaer (University of Oxford), Professor Jay Lewis (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Latin American Centre Fourth Alumni London Networking Drinks
Date: 14 November 2025, 19:00 - 21:00
Speaker
Venue Details: 4 St James's Square, London SW1Y 4JU
Organiser: Eduardo Posada-Carbó (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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)

Mekelle Stories: Life in Time of War. Conversation around the newly published book
Date: 18 November 2025, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Catherine Dom (Independent)
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Mekelle Stories: Life in Time of War
Date: 18 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Catherine Dom (Independent)
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, OX2 6SE
Organisers: Norman Aselmeyer (University of Oxford), Mwangi Mwaura (Oxford), Biruk Terrefe (University of Oxford), Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Round table on Brazilian elections
Date: 18 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Laurence Whitehead (Nuffield College, Oxford)
Venue: Latin American Centre Library, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Eduardo Posada-Carbó
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 19 November 2025

Film Screening – A Place in the City, by Gabriel Silvestre
Date: 19 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Gabriel Silvestre (Newcastle University)
Venue: Latin American Centre Library, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room, Latin American Centre, 1 Church Walk, Oxford
Organiser: Felipe Krause (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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)

Asesor en las sombras: Alvaro Puga, un propagandista de los servicios de inteligencia de Pinochet
Date: 20 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Juan Cristóbal Peña (Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Chile)
Venue: 1 Church Walk, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Latin American Centre, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 21 November 2025

Incommensurable histories: Mexican Japanese life experiences during the Second World War - XIIth Guerra Seminar (In Paris)
Date: 21 November 2025, 10:30 - 11:30
Speaker : Jessica Fernández de Lara Harada (Oxford)
Venue Details: Paris
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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)

Book launch: Historical Dictionary of South Sudan
Date: 25 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker s: Dr Douglas Johnson, Dr Nicki Kindersley (Cardiff University), Dr Scopas Poggo (Ohio State)
Venue: 13 Bevington Road, 13 Bevington Road OX2 6NB
Venue Details: Seminar Room, African Studies Centre
Organisers: Norman Aselmeyer (University of Oxford), Mwangi Mwaura (Oxford), Biruk Terrefe (University of Oxford), Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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)

Friday 28 November 2025

The Underground Network of Liberation Theology in Latin America
Date: 28 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: Niall Geraghty (UCL), Pablo Bradbury (Greenwich)
Venue: 1 Church Walk, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Latin American Centre, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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)

The making of an African tourist destination: Tourism development in post-independent Kenya
Date: 2 December 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Mathias Hack (Universität Leipzig/IEG Mainz)
Venue: 13 Bevington Road, 13 Bevington Road OX2 6NB
Venue Details: Seminar Room, African Studies Centre
Organisers: Norman Aselmeyer (University of Oxford), Mwangi Mwaura (Oxford), Biruk Terrefe (University of Oxford), Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

US and Latin America
Date: 2 December 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Michael McKinley (Former US Ambassador in Perú, Brazil and Colombia)
Venue: Latin American Centre Library, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 3 December 2025

What Comparative Area Studies (CAS) Brings to the Table: Leveraging and Integrating Area-Based Knowledge in the Social Sciences
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 3 December 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Rudra Sil (University of Pennsylvania)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Nissan Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Host: Dr Chigusa Yamaura (University of Oxford)

What Comparative Area Studies (CAS) Brings to the Table: Leveraging and Integrating Area-Based Knowledge in the Social Sciences
Date: 3 December 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Rudra Sil (University of Pennsylvania)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Nissan Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Dr Chigusa Yamaura (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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)

Federal Interventions and the Making of a Bourgeois Republic under Getúlio Vargas’ administrations in Brazil (1930–1945) - XIIIth Guerra Seminar (in Oxford)
Date: 4 December 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Ana Laura Fraga (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), France)
Venue: 1 Church Walk, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Latin American Centre, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA