Friday 8 November 2024 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - East of Empire: Egypt, India, and the World between the Wars
  Erin O'Halloran (Cambridge)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Ryūtei Saryū – Rakugo Performer
  Ryūtei Saryū
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Monday 11 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Nightmares of Decolonization: Paramilitary Violence and the Making of South Asia
  Ali Raza (Lahore University of Management Sciences)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Nelson Landry (University of Hamburg)
  Glorisun Lecture Series in Buddhist Studies 2024-2025
• 17:00 - Seung-Hee Nah | Resettlement Challenges of North Korean Women through the Lens of an Immigrant
  Seung-Hee Nah

Tuesday 12 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - China in the Caribbean with Implications for Western Hemisphere Geopolitics
  Dr Bhoendradatt Tewarie (The University of the West Indies)
  China Centre talks
• 14:00 - Radical Futures or Pristine Pasts? : The Afterlives of Anti-Casteism in Western India
  Surajkumar Thube (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 14:15 - To Ensure the Jewish Character of the Town Through the Establishment of a Central Synagogue: Synagogues in Israeli Urban Internal Frontiers as Symbols of Sovereignty
  Dr Davidi Borabeck (University of Oxford)
  Israel Studies Seminar
• 17:00 - Murder in the Maloo: A Tale of Old Shanghai
  Dr Paul Bevan (University of Oxford)
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China
• 17:00 - Princess Akiko of Mikasa – A Tale of the Royal and Imperial Costumes: The Trajectory of UK-Japan Relations
  Princess Akiko of Mikasa
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Wednesday 13 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Reading, Writing, and Teaching Global History Now
  Professor Erica Charters (Oxford), Professor Manuel Barcia Paz (Leeds), Professor Richard Drayton (KCL)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 17:00 - English Judges in Muslim Countries: Synergies and Sensitivities in Promoting the Rule of Law
  Sir Peter Gross (Former Lord Justice of Appeal)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Book talk: H-POP - The Secretive World of Hindutva Popstars
  Kunal Purohit (Independent Journalist and Researcher)

Thursday 14 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Panel Discussion: Rethinking Latin American Independence in the Twenty-First Century
  Marcela Echeverri, Anthony McFarlane, Kirsten Schultz, Francisco A Ortega, Cristina Soriano
  Latin American History Seminar
• 17:00 - Rural-to-Urban Migration, Gender and Familial Care in Post-Socialist China
  Professor Susanne Choi (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 15 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Universal properties of natural language and Georgian as a case study
  Various Speakers
• 16:00 - Picturing War: Art and Empire in the Late-Victorian Period
  Sean Willcock (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 18 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - The Charismatic Paradigm and Modernist Muslim Thought
  Teena Purohit (Boston University)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 17:00 - Atomized Incorporation: Chinese Workers and the Aftermath of China's Rise?
  Professor Sungmin Rho (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 19:00 - Heungboga: Exploring Korean Traditional Pansori and Folk Songs
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 19 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - Open scholarship: fundamentals of open access
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship
• 14:00 - Book Talk: Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir
  Omer Aijazi (Manchester)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 14:15 - Abraham and Moses as Entrepreneurs: Educating for the Future with Narratives of the Past
  Dr Sari Alfi-Nissan (University of Oxford)
  Israel Studies Seminar
• 15:00 - Open Scholarship: Your thesis, copyright and ORA
  David Watson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Thomas Mitchell (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship

Wednesday 20 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Open scholarship: preregistration and registered reports: what, why, and how
  David Phillips (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Jacqueline Thompson (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship
• 14:00 - Networks of Refuge and Transnational Citizenship
  Pragya Kaul (Michigan), Vidura Jang Bahadur (Northwestern)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 17:00 - Threats to the Rule of Law
  The Rt. Hon. Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury (Former President, UK Supreme Court)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 21 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - Open scholarship: logistics of open scholarship
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - Latin America in Catholicism’s Global Cold War
  Daniel L McDonald (Oxford), Jaime Pensado (University of Notre Dame), Simon Unger (Fribourg)
  Latin American History Seminar
• 17:00 - Compensation and the Consolidation of Authoritarian Power: Evidence from China’s 2016 PLA Reform
  Professor Victor Shih (University of California San Diego)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:15 - A panel to mark the 25th anniversary of J. M. Coetzee’s influential novel 'Disgrace', with Derek Attridge (York) and Urmila Seshagiri (Tennessee)
  Derek Attridge (University of York), Urmila Seshagiri (Tennessee)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Friday 22 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Empires and everyday cultural coexistence: the Nineteenth century Ottoman Empire in comparative perspective
  Nicholas Doumanis (Illinois Chicago)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - What Remains Invisible Still: Fukushima by Tsuchida Hiromi (2018) as the Formation of a Metaphor
  Dr Maki Fukuoka (University of Leeds)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Monday 25 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Technology and the Rise of Great Powers
  Dr Jeffrey Ding (George Washington University)
  China Centre talks
• 14:00 - Open scholarship: forum of open scholarship
  Various Speakers
  Open Scholarship

Tuesday 26 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Hate crime law as Meliorist Hope: Seeking justice for caste atrocities in Rajasthan
  Sandhya Fuchs (University of Bristol)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 14:15 - Trade Networks Bridging Yemen, Israel, and Ethiopia: The Ḥibshūsh Family and Jewish-Muslim Commercial Relations in the 20th Century
  Dr Menashe Anzi (Ben Gurion University)
  Israel Studies Seminar
• 17:00 - Air Quality in Oxford: Past, Present and Future
  Dr Suzanne Bartington (University of Birmingham)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)

Wednesday 27 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - The political economy of land data assemblages in informal settlements (Mathare & Kwa Bullo)
  Hybrid event: Please use webinar registration link below.
  Smith Ouma (Manchester)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series
• 17:00 - Left Behind: A New Economics for Neglected Places
  Professor Sir Paul Collier (Blavatnik School of Government)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Audio(visual) Sources for Chinese Socialist Soundscapes: A Methodological Exploration
  Professor Jie Li (Harvard University)
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China
• 17:15 - Allegory, Dystopia and Fiction in our Time
  Supriya Chaudhuri (Jadavpur)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Thursday 28 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Through Texts or Objects: How Classicists and Antiquarians Conceptualised the Chinese Ritual Jade cong
  Dr Qin Yang (University of Nottingham)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:00 - XIth Guerra Seminar: El rol y la participación de las mujeres en la esfera pública en Bolivia del final de la guerra del Chaco a la Revolución Nacional (1935-1952)
  Maria Elvira Alvarez-Gimenez (CY Cergy Paris University)
  Latin American History Seminar

Friday 29 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Beyond Cultural Difference: Australian Indigenous Literary and Creative Writing Practices as Sites of Knowledge Production
  Eugenia Flynn (RMIT, Melbourne)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar
• 13:30 - Joint Workshop with the Department of Sociology: Dispute Resolution: Exploring Criminal, Informal, and Alternative Perspectives
  TBA
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
• 16:00 - Empire of Emptiness: Fortresses of the Colonial Conquest in the Sahara
  Berny Sèbe (Birmingham)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 2 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Udayana's refutation of apoha
  Bogdan Diaconescu (University of Oxford)
  Glorisun Lecture Series in Buddhist Studies 2024-2025

Tuesday 3 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Legalizing the Revolution: India and the Constitution of the Postcolony
  Sandipto Dasgupta (New School for Social Research, New York and Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 14:15 - 'Last child of the Risorgimento'? Zionism and the legacies of 1848”
  Professor Abigail Green
  Israel Studies Seminar

Wednesday 4 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Indentured Urbanity and Constitutional Law
  Dr Purba Hossain (York), Sahith Mandapalli (JNU)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 17:00 - Engaging with the Contemporary World: A Multi-Religious Perspective
  Professor Tomáš Halik (Charles University, Prague)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 5 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Open scholarship: open monographs
  Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), David Watson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - EU-Taiwan Relations in a New Reality: What Lies Ahead?
  Dr Zsuzsa Anna Ferenczy (National Dong-Hwa University, Hualien, Taiwan)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:00 - New Culture for the New Man: Quimantú and the educational cartoon in Chile, 1970-1973
  Stefan Rinke (Freie Universität Berlin)
  Latin American History Seminar
• 17:15 - Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar
  Please note that this seminar has been postponed
  Ayelet Ben Yishai (Haifa)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Friday 6 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - The Statues of Robert Clive: The making and remaking of a supremacist icon
  Nandini Chatterjee (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Tuesday 17 December 2024 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - Open scholarship: fundamentals of open access
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship

Tuesday 14 January 2025 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Open scholarship: fundamentals of open access
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship

Friday 24 January 2025 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Beyond Boundaries: Developing Indigenous Intellectual History
  Saliha Belmessous (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Friday 31 January 2025 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Folksongs and Inclusion in Early Modernity: A Comparative Study
  Leigh Jenco (LSE)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Friday 7 February 2025 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Circulation: Object memory, global exchange, and the first English embassy to India
  Nandini Das (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Thursday 13 February 2025 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Open scholarship: playing in the open: getting familiar with creative commons licences
  Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Friday 14 February 2025 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Medicine for Ghosts: Visions, Possessions, and Medical Exchange in Early Modern Southeast Asia
  Tara Alberts (York)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 17 February 2025 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Open scholarship: forum of open scholarship
  Various Speakers
  Open Scholarship

Friday 21 February 2025 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - The global nature of Mughal Early Modernity
  Azfar Moin (Austin, Texas)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Friday 28 February 2025 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Imperialism and Ethnology: The Ottoman Case
  Giancarlo Casale (EUI)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Thursday 29 May 2025 (19th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Open scholarship: playing in the open: getting familiar with creative commons licences
  Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship