Oxford Events, the new replacement for OxTalks, will launch on 16th March. From now until the launch of Oxford Events, new events cannot be published or edited on OxTalks while all existing records are migrated to the new platform. The existing OxTalks site will remain available to view during this period.
From 16th, Oxford Events will launch on a new website: events.ox.ac.uk, and event submissions will resume. You will need a Halo login to submit events. Full details are available on the Staff Gateway.
Rana Mitter (History, St Cross College) is a renowned historian who specialises in the emergence of nationalism within China. His most recent book, China’s Good War: How World War II is Shaping a New Nationalism (2020) was named both a Foreign Affairs Book of the Year and a Spectator Book of the Year. For most of its history, China frowned on public discussion of the war against Japan. But as the country has grown more powerful, a wide-ranging reassessment of the war years has been central to new confidence abroad and mounting nationalism at home. Mitter explores China’s assertion of its position as the creator and protector of the international order that emerged from the war – an order, China argues, under threat today largely from the US. Beijing’s radical reassessment of its collective memory of the war has created a new foundation for a people destined to shape the world… but what does that mean for our past, present and future? We look forward to seeing you there!
