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Department: Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Talks:
Tuesday 21 October 2025
Autocracy 2.0: How China's Rise Reinvented Tyranny
Date: 21 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Professor Jennifer Lind (Dartmouth)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organiser:
Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 23 October 2025
Remembering the Nanjing Massacre: Three Theses Revisited
Date: 23 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Dr Licheng Qian (Birmingham City University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organisers:
Dr Mark Czeller (University of Oxford),
Dr Cheuk Yee Wai (University of Oxford),
Professor Tian Yuan Tan (University of Oxford),
Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford),
Dr Zhe Wang (University of Oxford),
Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford),
Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford)
Host:
Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford)
Collecting Iznik: the Benaki Museum, its patrons and influences in twentieth-century Greece
Date: 23 October 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
:
Mina Moraitou (Benaki Museum, Athens)
Venue Details: KRC Lecture Room, Khalili Research Centre, 3 St John Street, Oxford
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 29 October 2025
The Southern Tour: Deng Xiaoping and the Fight for China’s Future
Date: 29 October 2025, 12:00 - 13:15
Speaker
:
Dr Jonathan Chatwin
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organiser:
Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host:
Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Thursday 30 October 2025
Ritualizing Filial Debt: Narrative and Performance in Chinese Popular Religious Storytelling
Date: 30 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Professor Xiaosu Sun (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organisers:
Dr Mark Czeller (University of Oxford),
Dr Cheuk Yee Wai (University of Oxford),
Professor Tian Yuan Tan (University of Oxford),
Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford),
Dr Zhe Wang (University of Oxford),
Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford),
Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford)
Host:
Professor Tian Yuan Tan (University of Oxford)
Clothing the Caliphate: dress cultures of the early Islamic period
Date: 30 October 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
:
Jochen Sokoly (VCUarts Qatar)
Venue Details: KRC Lecture Room, Khalili Research Centre, 3 St John Street, Oxford
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 4 November 2025
Film screening: This is Life 烟火人间
Date: 4 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Dr Jing Wang (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre
Organisers:
Dr Jing Wang (University of Oxford),
Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford)
Host:
Dr Bingbing Shi (University of Oxford)
Wednesday 5 November 2025
Memoirs of a Confucius Institute Director: Challenges, Controversies, and Realities
Date: 5 November 2025, 12:00 - 13:15
Speaker
:
Professor Jinghan Zeng (City University of Hong Kong)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organiser:
Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host:
Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Thursday 6 November 2025
Semiconductors and Transitional Justice: Reassessing Taiwan’s Place in the East Asian Order
Date: 6 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
s:
Professor Tsai Chung-ming (National Chengchi University),
Professor Yen-Pin Su (National Chengchi University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organisers:
Dr Mark Czeller (University of Oxford),
Dr Cheuk Yee Wai (University of Oxford),
Professor Tian Yuan Tan (University of Oxford),
Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford),
Dr Zhe Wang (University of Oxford),
Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford),
Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford)
Host:
Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford)
From Bosphorus to Nile: mapping, depicting, and portraying the Ottoman imperial world in the late eighteenth century
Date: 6 November 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
:
Ayşe Hilal Uğurlu (MEF University, Istanbul)
Venue Details: KRC Lecture Room, Khalili Research Centre, 3 St John Street, Oxford
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 10 November 2025
Above the Dust: Film screening + Q&As with Film Director
Date: 10 November 2025, 14:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Wang Xiaoshuai (Film Director)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organiser:
Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host:
Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Tuesday 11 November 2025
Film screening: Hometown: Women, Memory, and Migration in China’s Third Front Movement
Date: 11 November 2025, 13:00 - 15:00
Speaker
:
Dr Jing Wang (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lucina Ho Seminar Room (first floor)
Organiser:
Professor Maria Jaschok (University of Oxford)
Host:
Professor Maria Jaschok (University of Oxford)
Wednesday 12 November 2025
The Once and Future World Order: Why Global Civilization Will Survive the Decline of the West
Date: 12 November 2025, 12:00 - 13:15
Speaker
:
Professor Amitav Acharya (The American University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organiser:
Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host:
Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Thursday 13 November 2025
Knowing Hands: Hand-memory Techniques and Handy Knowledge in Ming Daily-use Encyclopedias
Date: 13 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Dr Marta Hanson (Center for Advanced Studies - Erlangen)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organisers:
Dr Mark Czeller (University of Oxford),
Dr Cheuk Yee Wai (University of Oxford),
Professor Tian Yuan Tan (University of Oxford),
Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford),
Dr Zhe Wang (University of Oxford),
Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford),
Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford),
Dr Chigusa Yamaura (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Translating the image: art, science and global imagination in the first Islamic description of the New World (Tarih-i Hind-i Garbi)
Date: 13 November 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
:
Sinem Arcak Casale (Minnesota)
Venue Details: KRC Lecture Room, Khalili Research Centre, 3 St John Street, Oxford
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 20 November 2025
New directions in the study of ivories from the Islamic world: a talk and handling session
Date: 20 November 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
:
Mariam Rosser-Owen (V&A, and Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford)
Venue Details: KRC Lecture Room, Khalili Research Centre, 3 St John Street, Oxford
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Film Screening & Director Q&A: To Kill a Mongolian Horse
Date: 20 November 2025, 17:30 - 20:30
Speaker
:
Xiaoxuan Jiang (Film Director)
Venue Details: Garden Quad Auditorium
Organisers:
Dr Mark Czeller (University of Oxford),
Dr Cheuk Yee Wai (University of Oxford),
Professor Tian Yuan Tan (University of Oxford),
Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford),
Dr Zhe Wang (University of Oxford),
Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford),
Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford)
Host:
Professor Anna Lora-Wainwright (University of Oxford)
Thursday 27 November 2025
What was modern Islamic art?
Date: 27 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
:
William Gallois (Exeter)
Venue Details: KRC Lecture Room, Khalili Research Centre, 3 St John Street, Oxford
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
The Soul-loosing Grid (mihun zhen 迷魂陣) and other Novelese Battle Arrays (zhen 陣): A Tentative Exploration of a 'Fictional' Reconstruction of Military Arts, Taoist Rituals, Performing Arts and Black Magic
Date: 27 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Professor Vincent Durand-Dastès (INALCO, Paris)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organisers:
Dr Mark Czeller (University of Oxford),
Dr Cheuk Yee Wai (University of Oxford),
Professor Tian Yuan Tan (University of Oxford),
Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford),
Dr Zhe Wang (University of Oxford),
Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford),
Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Documenting Multiculturalism: The Arabic Documents of Sicily
Date: 27 November 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
s:
Jeremy Johns (Khalili Research Centre),
Dan Burt (Khalili Research Centre)
Venue Details: KRC Lecture Room, Khalili Research Centre, 3 St John Street, Oxford
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 3 December 2025
Created in Canton: The Past and Present of Pith Paper Watercolours
Date: 3 December 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
s:
Professor Liu Zhiwei (Zhongshan University),
Professor May Bo Ching (City University Hong Kong),
Lyu Ziyuan
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organiser:
Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford)
Host:
Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford)
Thursday 4 December 2025
The Making of a Neglected Disease: Trachoma Research and Control in Twentieth-century China
Date: 4 December 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Mary Augusta Brazelton (Cambridge)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organisers:
Dr Mark Czeller (University of Oxford),
Dr Cheuk Yee Wai (University of Oxford),
Professor Tian Yuan Tan (University of Oxford),
Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford),
Dr Zhe Wang (University of Oxford),
Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford),
Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford)
Host:
Dr Wuyutong Yao (University of Oxford)
Painting and poetry at the court of Fath Ali Shah Qajar (1797–1834)
Date: 4 December 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
:
Fuchsia Hart (Victoria and Albert Museum)
Venue Details: KRC Lecture Room, Khalili Resear Centre, 3 St John Street, Oxford
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
