Interdisciplinary Seminars on Empire - Oxford Talks

Interdisciplinary Seminars on Empire

This interdisciplinary seminar series brings together scholars from history, political science, political theory, law, and postcolonial studies to speak to topics in anticolonial resistance and decolonisation, imperial legacies in the contemporary world and decolonial political ideas.

All seminars are held in the Senior Common Room, Nuffield College, at 16:15, unless otherwise stated; followed by a drinks reception in Nuffield College SCR.

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For any enquiries, please email:

Lia Brazil – mailto:lia.brazil@nuffield.ox.ac.uk
Ami Mistry – mailto:amita.mistry@nuffield.ox.ac.uk
Emily Katzenstein – mailto:emily.katzenstein@sjc.ox.ac.uk

Type: Seminar Series
Series organisers: Lia Brazil , Amita Mistry , Emily Katzenstein
Timing: Various days 16:15
Web Address: https://www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/news-events/events-and-seminars/
Organising department: Nuffield College

Thursday 2 February 2023 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

16:15 - Gandhi's Silence
Professor Faisal Devji (St Antony's, Oxford)

Monday 13 February 2023 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

16:15 - The Abstraction of Sovereignty: The Ottoman Empire in Early Twentieth-Century Socialist Thought
Dr Faridah Zaman (Somerville College, Oxford)

Thursday 2 March 2023 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

16:15 - British Imperialism: history, myth and memory
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Professor John Darwin (Nuffield College, Oxford)

Thursday 19 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

16:15 - Imperial Collections and Commemorations as Justifications for Empire
Professor Dan Hicks (Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford), Dr Mishka Sinha

Thursday 2 November 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

16:15 - Ralph Bunche and the Ends of Empire
Dr Emma MacKinnon (University of Cambridge)

Thursday 16 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

16:15 - Varieties of Empires, Varieties of Colonialism: An Essay in Historiographic Reconstruction
Professor Gurminder Bhambra (University of Sussex)

Thursday 1 February 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

16:15 - Expropriation as Reparation
Dr Shuk Ying Chan (UCL)

Thursday 15 February 2024 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

16:45 - Artery: Entanglements of Race and Nature in Fluvial Colombia
Please note that due to construction work this event will now take place in the Chester Room
Dr Austin Zeiderman (LSE)

Thursday 29 February 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

16:15 - Empires as Imperial Debt Formations, International Order as Complex Indebtedness
Dr Meera Sabaratnam (New College, Oxford)

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Editors: Laura Spence, Belinda Clark

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