Monday 3 March 2025

• 10:00 - Open Scholarship: Fundamentals of open access
  Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Beth Saward (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship
• 13:00 - OxFOS25 - The Innovation that Follows Open Scholarship: Examples from eLife and the Public Knowledge Project
  John Willinsky (Stanford University), Godwyns Onwuchekwa (eLife Sciences)
  Open Scholarship
• 15:00 - OxFOS25 - How To Start and Manage a Journal on the World’s Most Widely Used (Free) Journal Platform OJS
  John Willinsky (Stanford University)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - OxFOS25 Keynote - As Open as Possible, As Permanent as Necessary: Towards the Sustainability of Openness
  Professor Christopher Smith (AHRC), Richard Ovenden (Chair)
  Open Scholarship

Tuesday 4 March 2025

• 10:00 - Open Scholarship: Foundations of copyright for researchers
  Chris Morrison (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 13:00 - OxFOS25 - Economics and Experiments in Open Access Publishing
  Martin Paul Eve (Birkbeck, University of London), Dr Janneke Adema (Coventry University), Ronald Snijder (OAPEN)
  Open Scholarship
• 14:00 - ‘Mao-Lana’ of Asia: Bhashani, Black Maoism, and Islamic Socialism in the 1960s
  Layli Uddin (Queen Mary University of London)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Anthropocene Urbanity and Surreal Imagery: Hong Kong in Contemporary Sinophone Fiction
  Professor Xiaofan Amy Li (UCL)
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China
• 17:00 - Change Agents Under Threat: Environmental Human Rights Defenders in Colombia and Latin America
  Torsten Krause (Lund University)
  LAC Main Seminar Series

Wednesday 5 March 2025

• 10:30 - Open Scholarship: Open Monographs
  Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), David Watson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 13:00 - OxFOS25 - Research Data Management - Show & Tell
  David Watson (University of Oxford), Neil Jefferies (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries), Damon Strange (Humanities, University of Oxford), Alexandra Rooney (University of Oxford), Peter Micklem (Research Support team, IT Services, University of Oxford), Dr Meriel Patrick (Research Support team, IT Services, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - How to Study Arabic and Islamic Philosophy? Once Again about al-Ghazali and Descartes
  Professor Frank Griffel (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:15 - The Politics of Immigration and the Politics of Identity | The Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture 2025
  Please use Octagon Gate entrance, located on Longwall Street side entrance to Magdalen College.
  Kenan Malik (Writer, lecturer and broadcaster)
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures

Thursday 6 March 2025

• 10:00 - Open Scholarship: ORCIDs from scratch
  Neil Jefferies (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 13:00 - OxFOS25 - An introduction to Carpentries
  Various Speakers
  Open Scholarship
• 15:30 - 'The Overthrow of Robert Mugabe: Gender, Coups, and Diplomats’ (Book Launch)
  Dr Miles Tendi (University of Oxford)
  African Studies Centre Research Seminars
• 17:00 - A Third Path: Corporatism in Brazil and Portugal
  Melissa Texeira (University of Pennsylvania)
  Latin American History Seminar
• 17:00 - Yang sheng and Diaitētikē: Comparative Perspectives on Regimen in Early China
  Dr Arthur Harris (Cambridge)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:15 - Fanon Questions
  Robert Young (New York University)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Friday 7 March 2025

• 10:00 - OxFOS25 - Building open research communities
  Professor Susanna-Assunta Sansone (University of Oxford, Chair), Anna Guttesen (WIN Open Science Ambassador), Charles Rahal (RROx, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 10:00 - Symposium: Gender and Care in China: New Challenges and Practices
  Various Speakers
• 12:00 - China Centre Talk - Professor William Hurst
  Professor William Hurst (University of Cambridge)
  China Centre talks
• 13:00 - OxFOS 2025 - Redefining Scientific Publishing
  Brian Nosek (Centre for Open Science), Alex Freeman (Octopus.ac), Allyson Lister (University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - Startup Capitalism: New Approaches to Innovation Strategies in East Asia
  Dr Robyn Klingler-Vidra (Associate Dean (Global Engagement) and Associate Professor in Entrepreneurship and Sustainability at King's Business School)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Monday 10 March 2025

• 12:00 - Involuntary Bachelorhood and the Crises of the Son-centred Intergenerational Contract – Insights from Gender-imbalanced Rural China
  Professor Lisa Eklund (Lund Universty)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 13:30 - OxFOS25 : How Research Security Matters for Participatory Science
  Paul Ayris (University College, London), Dr. Tiberius Ignat (SKS Knowledge Services)
  Open Scholarship
• 15:00 - OxFOS25: Research Practice - Responsible Knowledge Exchange, Engagement and Impact
  Sarah Callaghan (Research Practice Group, University of Oxford), Dr Alis Oancea (Oxford University Department of Education)
  Open Scholarship

Tuesday 11 March 2025

• 10:00 - Open scholarship: Preregistration and registered reports: What, why, and how
  Jackie Thompson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 12:00 - From Click to Boom: The Political Economy of E-commerce in China
  Dr Lizhi Liu (Georgetown University)
  China Centre talks
• 14:00 - ‘Home’ in Sikh Polity: Understandings of mīrī pīrī in contemporary Britain
  Jaskiran Kaur Bhogal (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 15:00 - OxFOS25: Open Knowledge Infrastructure
  Wolfram Horstman (Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure “FIZ Karlsruhe” (Germany)), Caroline Edwards
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - The End of Engagement: America's China Experts and US Strategy Since 1989
  Professor David M. McCourt (University of California Davis)
  China Centre talks
• 17:00 - Book talk: The Home I Worked to Make: Voices from the New Syrian Diaspora
  Jointly hosted with the Middle East Centre, St Antony's College
  Professor Wendy Pearlman (Northwestern University)
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures
• 17:00 - OxFOS25: Lightning Talks
  Various Speakers
  Open Scholarship

Wednesday 12 March 2025

• 10:30 - OxFOS25: Past and Present of Open
  Sally Rumsey, Beth Montague-Hellen (Francis Crick Institute), Jenni Adams (University of Sheffield), Ric Campbell
  Open Scholarship
• 12:30 - OxFOS25 Reproducible Research Oxford lunch
  The RROx team
  Open Scholarship
• 13:30 - OxFOS25 The Future of Open
  TBA
  Open Scholarship
• 14:00 - Imperial & Transnational Histories of War
  Jake Gasson (King's College London), Salvador Lima (European University Institute)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 15:30 - OxFOS25 Would I lie to you?
  Patricia Logullo, Marc Brouard, Mae Chester-Jones, Gaurav Bhalerao, Charles Rahal (RROx, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 15:30 - Classical music in Ethiopia: A discussion with Girma Yifrashewa
  Hybrid event. Please use link below for webinar registration.
  Dr Samuel Boateng, Girma Yifrashewa (Ashenafi Kebede Performing Arts Centre, AAU)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series
• 17:00 - ASEAN Institute Seminar Series: Buddhism, nationalism, and authoritarianism: Findings from a 2023 post-election survey of Thai voters
  Professor Tomas Larsson (University of Cambridge)
  ASEAN Institute Seminar Series 2025
• 17:00 - Reflections on the War in Sudan
  Dame Rosalind Marsden (RIIA)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - OxFOS25 Posters and Wine
  Various Speakers
  Open Scholarship

Thursday 13 March 2025

• 10:00 - OxFOS25 Peer Reviewing Peer Review
  Nick De Vito (Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences)
  Open Scholarship
• 13:00 - OxFOS25 The Future of Open Publication: the publishers’ view
  Alessio Bolognesi, Rebecca Lawrence
  Open Scholarship
• 14:00 - Open Scholarship: Introduction to Open Science Framework at Oxford
  Neil Jefferies (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship
• 15:30 - Forging Global Black Identities: Pan-African Consciousness and the Transnational Lives of Second-Generation Africans in the UK
  Mikal Woldu (SOAS)
  African Studies Centre Research Seminars
• 17:00 - Longing for Revolution: Women's Militancia and Post-Militancia in the Peruvian Revolutionary Left - 1960-2000
  Mercedes Crisóstomo (UCL)
  Latin American History Seminar

Friday 14 March 2025

• 10:00 - Consolidating the state: challenges and opportunities in postwar reconstruction of Ukraine
  More details to come soon.
  TBA
  Oxford Ukraine Hub workshop series
• 17:00 - Japan's Free and Open Indo-Pacific: From Vision to Reality
  Dr Eva Pejsova (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Thursday 27 March 2025

• 10:00 - Open Scholarship: Logistics of open scholarship
  Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Beth Saward (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship

Thursday 10 April 2025

• 14:30 - Open Scholarship: Fundamentals of open access
  Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Beth Saward (Bodleian Libraries), Polly Bannister (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Tuesday 29 April 2025

• 14:15 - Israeli Far-Right amid the Erosion of the 'Legitimate Circle of Politics'
  Dr Ferit Belder (University of Oxford)
  Israel Studies Seminar Trinity Term 2025

Tuesday 6 May 2025

• 14:15 - Love, Pride, Fear, and Happiness: Zionism as a Case Study for 'National Emotions'
  Dr Yair Berlin (University of Cambridge)
  Israel Studies Seminar Trinity Term 2025

Tuesday 13 May 2025

• 14:00 - Afghanistan and the Concept of Asia: Intellectual Geographies in an Age of Reform
  Marya Hannun (University of Exeter)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 14:15 - Steiner in Zion: The Reception of Anthroposophy in Israel
  Professor Boaz Huss (Ben-Gurion University)
  Israel Studies Seminar Trinity Term 2025

Tuesday 20 May 2025

• 14:15 - "A Man Learns Only from What His Heart Desires": Hebrew Textbooks Reimagined
  Rakefet Anzi (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
  Israel Studies Seminar Trinity Term 2025

Tuesday 27 May 2025

• 14:00 - Designing with the Rohingya: Trauma, Resilience, Memory
  Professor Esther da Costa Meyer (Princeton University and Yale University)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 29 May 2025

• 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

Tuesday 3 June 2025

• 14:00 - Ecologies of Caste and Waste: Dependence and Value Making at the Bhalswa Landfill in Delhi
  Aparna Agarwal (University of Lausanne)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series