Monday 13 October 2025

• 17:00 - ODID presents... 'Khartoum' - an Oxford premiere & Directors Q&A
  Rawia Alhag (Sudanese journalist), Khadmallah Ali (Sudanese activist), Phil Cox (Film maker)
  ODID Special Lectures & Seminars

Tuesday 14 October 2025

• 13:00 - Cultural memory and displacement during Sudan’s Civil War
  Rawia Alhag (Sudanese journalist), Khadmallah Ali (Sudanese activist), Phil Cox (Film maker), Professor Marlyn Deegan (King's College London)
  ODID Special Lectures & Seminars
• 16:00 - Introductions and discussion of the aims of the series
  Professor Jocelyn Alexander (University of Oxford), Ila Axelrod (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Southern Africa Discussion Group

Wednesday 15 October 2025

• 15:00 - Bridge Contracts: Kenya's Mobile Money Innovation
  Professor Jonathan Greenacre (Boston University)
• 16:00 - Bridge Contracts: Kenya's Mobile Money Innovation
  Jonathan Greenacre (Boston University)
  TIDE Seminar Series
• 17:00 - A short history of the Gaza Strip
  Dr Anne Irfan (University College London)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Tuesday 21 October 2025

• 13:00 - The Political Economy of Syria Post-Assad
  Dr Karam Shaar
  ODID Special Lectures & Seminars
• 16:00 - Legacy of Mass Atrocities and its Influence on Electoral Behaviors in Zimbabwe
  TBA
  Oxford Southern Africa Discussion Group

Wednesday 22 October 2025

• 15:00 - Introduction to the series 'How can we respond to this systemic crisis?'
  Professor Laura Rival (University of Oxford)
  ODID Special Lectures & Seminars
• 17:00 - Displacement, solidarity, counter-government
  Professor David Owen (University of Southampton)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Tuesday 28 October 2025

• 16:00 - State Absence and Everyday Transformation in Unity’s Oil Fields (South Sudan)
  Matai Muon (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Southern Africa Discussion Group

Wednesday 29 October 2025

• 17:00 - Human rights elites at the United Nations: Felix Ermacora and the first human rights fact finding missions (1967-1993)
  Dr Alvina Hoffman (SOAS University of London)

Tuesday 4 November 2025

• 16:00 - Transnational Revolutionary Networks and the Global Cold War: The African National Congress, the Irish Republican Army, and the Palestine Liberation Organisation, 1969-2005
  TBA
  Oxford Southern Africa Discussion Group

Wednesday 5 November 2025

• 15:00 - Fighting inequality and mass deforestation in Brazil
  TBA
  ODID Special Lectures & Seminars
• 17:15 - Migration and displacement: My grandmother, Lausanne, and some lessons for the present
  Lea Ypi (LSE)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Tuesday 11 November 2025

• 16:00 - Gendering History, State-Making and the Politics of Land in Mozambique, 1977-1986
  Ila Axelrod (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Southern Africa Discussion Group

Tuesday 18 November 2025

• 16:00 - Title TBC
  Johanna Wetzel (Oxford)
  Oxford Southern Africa Discussion Group

Wednesday 19 November 2025

• 17:00 - Defending the rights of nature in Ecuador
  Josefina Lehnen (RIFS, Germany), Elena Galvez (FLACSO-Ecuador)
  ODID Special Lectures & Seminars

Tuesday 25 November 2025

• 16:00 - The Uncertain State: Uncertainty as everyday experience and mode of governmentality in contemporary India
  Geert de Neve (University of Sussex)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Navigating Manhood in Zambia’s Livingstone and the Copperbelt during the ‘Golden Era of Modern Manhood’ (mid-1940s–late-1970s)
  Kazmel Hamweemba (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Southern Africa Discussion Group

Tuesday 2 December 2025

• 16:00 - Roundtable discussion
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Southern Africa Discussion Group

Wednesday 3 December 2025

• 15:00 - Roundtable: How people keep democracy alive in Latin America
  Various Speakers
  ODID Special Lectures & Seminars