Oxford Seminar in the Pre-Modern History of East Asia

A forum for all forms of history related to pre-modern East Asia, including both individual countries and East Asia as a whole.

Venue: Lucina Ho Seminar Room, Oxford China Centre (HT25)
Type: Seminar Series
Series organisers: Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford), Chui-Joe Tham (Linacre College, Oxford), Julian Geissler (Queens College, Oxford), Lewis Ebert (St Cross College, Oxford)
Timing: 5pm on Tuesdays

Talks:

Tuesday 3 June 2025

Central Asian Christian perspectives on Mongol Chaghatai Rule
Date: 3 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Benjamin Sharkey (Oxford)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Organisers: Lewis Ebert (St Cross College, Oxford), Julian Geissler (Queens College, Oxford), Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 10 June 2025

The Physics of Chinese Qi Cosmology in seventeenth-century Japan
Date: 10 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Matthais Hayek (EFEO)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Organisers: Lewis Ebert (St Cross College, Oxford), Julian Geissler (Queens College, Oxford), Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 17 June 2025

Reports of a Lesser Sign: The Intertwining of Strange Trees with Political and Religious Authority in Early Imperial China
Date: 17 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Oliver Hargrave (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lucina Ho Seminar Room, Oxford China Centre
Organisers: Lewis Ebert (St Cross College, Oxford), Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Editor: Ross Moncrieff