Department: Oxford School of Global and Area Studies
Talks:

Wednesday 29 January 2025

ASEAN Institute Seminar Series: Contesting Indonesia
Date: 29 January 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Kirsten Schulze (London School of Economics)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Syndicate Room
Organiser: Professor Jacob Ricks (Singapore Management University)
Host: Professor Jacob Ricks (Singapore Management University)

Thursday 30 January 2025

The RDA: the Making of a Transnational Civil Rights Movement in Black French Africa
Date: 30 January 2025, 15:30 - 17:30
Speaker : Lyn Kouadio (University College, Oxford)
Venue: St Antony's College - Main Site, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, accessed via lift
Organisers: Peter Brooke (African Studies Centre, Oxford), Lena Reim (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

LAC History Seminar: The Age of Revolutions and the Generations Who Made It: A Hemispheric Perspective
Date: 30 January 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Nathan Peri-Rosental (University of Southern California)
Venue: Latin American Centre Library, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room, I Church Walk, Oxford
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Age of Revolutions and the Generations Who Made It: A Hemispheric Perspective (Comparative American History Seminar organised jointly with the Rothermere American Institute)
Date: 30 January 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Nathan Perl-Rosenthal (University of Southern California)
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room, Latin American Centre, 1 Church Walk, Oxford and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 31 January 2025

Meritocracy’s Children: Coming of Age and Senses of Injustice in Seoul and Tokyo
Date: 31 January 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Yuki Asahina (University of Manchester)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St Antony's College
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 6 February 2025

Researching Reconciliation and Repression in 1960s Kenya
Date: 6 February 2025, 15:30 - 17:30
Speaker : Niels Boender
Venue: St Antony's College - Main Site, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, accessed via lift
Organisers: Peter Brooke (African Studies Centre, Oxford), Lena Reim (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Discourses on Community in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
Date: 6 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: Gabriel Entin (Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina), Jorge Myers (Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina), Inés de Torres (Universidad de la República, Uruguay), André Jockyman Roithmann (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room, Latin American Centre, 1 Church Walk, Oxford, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 7 February 2025

Balancing Commerce and Diplomacy: Japan's Strategy for Economic Security
Date: 7 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Christina Davis (Harvard University)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St Antony's College
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 11 February 2025

Navigating Narratives: Tsurayuki's Tosa Diary as History and Fiction
Date: 11 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker s: Professor Gustav Heldt (University of Virginia), Professor Sho Konishi (University of Oxford - History/OSGA), Dr Pan Tomé Valencia (University of Oxford - AMES)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St Antony's College
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 12 February 2025

ASEAN Institute Seminar Series: Community-Minded Communists: A Field Experiment on Party Member Propensity for Community Activism in Among Rural Vietnamese Women
Date: 12 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Quynh Nguyen (University of Bern)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Syndicate Room
Organiser: Professor Jacob Ricks (Singapore Management University)
Host: Professor Jacob Ricks (Singapore Management University)

Thursday 13 February 2025

“God Can’t Bless You If You Work for Someone Else”: Informality and Entrepreneurship in Urban Zambia
Date: 13 February 2025, 15:30 - 17:30
Speaker : Kristina Pikovskaia (University of Edinburgh)
Venue: St Antony's College - Main Site, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, accessed via lift
Organisers: Peter Brooke (African Studies Centre, Oxford), Lena Reim (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

A Peruvian History of the Old World: José Carlos Mariátegui and Europe
Date: 13 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Paulo Drinot (UCL)
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room, Latin American Centre, 1 Church Walk, Oxford, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Taiwan and its Southeast Asia Challenge
Date: 13 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Alex Tan (University of Canterbury)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre, Dickson Poon Building, University of Oxford China Centre
Organisers: Oxford Taiwan Studies Programme, Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 14 February 2025

Searching for Zan: A More-Than-Human Ethnography of Extinction, Militarism, and Protest in Okinawa
Date: 14 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Marius Palz (Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St Antony's College
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 20 February 2025

Extractives-led Development and state-building in Botswana? A Historical Political Economy of Post-colonial Botswana’s Engagement with De Beers and Regional Geopolitical Insecurity
Date: 20 February 2025, 15:30 - 17:30
Speaker : Jorich Loubser
Venue: St Antony's College - Main Site, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, accessed via lift
Organisers: Peter Brooke (African Studies Centre, Oxford), Lena Reim (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Performing the Revolution. Politics and Theatre in Post-independent Argentina. 1810-1837
Date: 20 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Klaus Gallo (Universidad di Tella, Argentina)
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room, Latin American Centre, 1 Church Walk, Oxford, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 21 February 2025

Mori Nao Divorces Her Samurai Husband and His Family Puts Him in a Cage
Date: 21 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Luke Roberts (UC Santa Barbara)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St Antony's College
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 26 February 2025

ASEAN Institute Seminar Series: Transnational Impact of Chinese Propaganda on Intergroup Relations in Malaysia
Date: 26 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Jeremy Siow (University of Oxford)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Syndicate Room
Organiser: Professor Jacob Ricks (Singapore Management University)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 27 February 2025

Doing research on, in and around state buildings in Africa: Reflections from Lesotho, Malawi and Zimbabwe
Date: 27 February 2025, 15:30 - 17:30
Speaker : Innocent Batsani-Ncube (University of London)
Venue: St Antony's College - Main Site, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, accessed via lift
Organisers: Peter Brooke (African Studies Centre, Oxford), Lena Reim (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Histories of Solitude and Perplexity: Colombia, 19th to 21st Centuries
Date: 27 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: Lina Britto (Northwestern University, USA), Ricardo López Pedrero (Western Washington University, USA), Ana María Otero-Claves (University of York, UK)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The US-China Conflict and a Divided Southeast Asia: Implications for Taiwan
Date: 27 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Thitinan Pongsudhirak (Chulalongkorn University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre, Dickson Poon Building, University of Oxford China Centre
Organisers: Oxford Taiwan Studies Programme, Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 28 February 2025

Symposium: Healthcare delivery in crisis? The Potential for Mutual Learning between Japan and the UK
Date: 28 February 2025, 8:30 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: 27 Winchester Road, 27 Winchester Road OX2 6NA
Venue Details: Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 6 March 2025

'The Overthrow of Robert Mugabe: Gender, Coups, and Diplomats’ (Book Launch)
Date: 6 March 2025, 15:30 - 17:30
Speaker : Dr Miles Tendi (University of Oxford)
Venue: St Antony's College - Main Site, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, accessed via lift
Organisers: Peter Brooke (African Studies Centre, Oxford), Lena Reim (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

A Third Path: Corporatism in Brazil and Portugal
Date: 6 March 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Melissa Texeira (University of Pennsylvania)
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room, Latin American Centre, 1 Church Walk, Oxford, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 7 March 2025

Startup Capitalism: New Approaches to Innovation Strategies in East Asia
Date: 7 March 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Robyn Klingler-Vidra (Associate Dean (Global Engagement) and Associate Professor in Entrepreneurship and Sustainability at King's Business School)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St Antony's College
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 12 March 2025

ASEAN Institute Seminar Series: Buddhism, nationalism, and authoritarianism: Findings from a 2023 post-election survey of Thai voters
Date: 12 March 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Tomas Larsson (University of Cambridge)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Syndicate Room
Organiser: Professor Jacob Ricks (Singapore Management University)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 13 March 2025

Forging Global Black Identities: Pan-African Consciousness and the Transnational Lives of Second-Generation Africans in the UK
Date: 13 March 2025, 15:30 - 17:30
Speaker : Mikal Woldu (SOAS)
Venue: St Antony's College - Main Site, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, accessed via lift
Organisers: Peter Brooke (African Studies Centre, Oxford), Lena Reim (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Longing for Revolution: Women's Militancia and Post-Militancia in the Peruvian Revolutionary Left - 1960-2000
Date: 13 March 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Mercedes Crisóstomo (UCL)
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room, Latin American Centre, 1 Church Walk, Oxford, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 14 March 2025

Japan's Free and Open Indo-Pacific: From Vision to Reality
Date: 14 March 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Eva Pejsova (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St Antony's College
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: TBA