Collection - Oxford Talks

OxTalks Change Freeze Starts 2 March

Oxford Events, the new replacement for OxTalks, will launch on 16th March. The two-week OxTalks freeze period starts on Monday 2nd March. During this time, there will be no facility to publish or edit events. The existing OxTalks site will remain available to view during this period. Once Oxford Events launches, you will need a Halo login to submit events. Full details are available on the Staff Gateway.

Collection: Events of Interest to the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

Wednesday 25 February 2026

Thursday 26 February 2026

17:00 - FILM SCREENING: The Conspiracy: Assassination in Beirut
Please note that due to a lift fault, there is unfortunately no step-free access to the Investcorp Lecture Theatre at present. We are working to rectify this as quickly as possible.
Dan Clifton (Independent Writer/Director), Michael Taylor (Independent Investigations/Police Consultant)
Thursday Seminars (formerly Friday Seminars)
17:00 - Valedictory Lecture: Technology Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Governance: A Retrospective of 40 years
Professor Hugh Whittaker (University of Oxford)
Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
17:00 - Chile’s Neoliberal Nationalization: How a Dictator Spooked Copper Investors, 1974-1989
Margarita Fajardo (LAC/OSGA, Oxford, and Lawrence College, USA)
Latin American Centre Seminars and Events
17:15 - Collaborative creative practice in South African fiction
Caitlin Stobie (Leeds University)
Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar
17:15 - Debt in stone: architectures of finance in late Ottoman Istanbul
Eva Schreiner (Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florence)
Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Friday 27 February 2026

12:00 - Industrial Internet as a Governance Instrument: Intergovernmental Dynamics in China’s Manufacturing Digital Transformation
Mandarin presentation; bilingual Q&A
Zhihang Wang (University of Oxford)
Mandarin Forum
14:00 - Fascist India: Race, Caste and Hindutva [Book Talk]
Luna Sabastian (Northeastern University London)
Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 2 March 2026

14:00 - OxFOS26: AI versus open research: Exploring the evolving tensions
Various Speakers
Open Scholarship

Tuesday 3 March 2026

11:00 - OxFOS26: The future of Rights Retention to protect researchers' copyright
Please note: This session is intended for colleagues working in UK higher education libraries and research support roles, including scholarly communications, open research, copyright, and library policy. To enable open discussion, the session will be run as a closed meeting.
Various Speakers
Open Scholarship
15:00 - OxFOS26: Future of open research in humanities and social sciences
Various Speakers
Open Scholarship
15:00 - Film screening: Bored in Heaven
TBA
16:00 - Immunity on Trial: Ethiopian Courts, Chinese Corporations, and Contestations over Sovereignty
*Hybrid event* For webinar registration please use the link below.
Dr Miriam Driessen (University of Oxford)
Northeast Africa Forum seminar series
17:00 - BOOK TALK: Contemporary Islamist Opposition in Morocco: Resisting Inclusion and Moderation
Dr Alfonso Casani (Complutense University of Madrid)
Book Talks

Wednesday 4 March 2026

Thursday 5 March 2026

09:30 - Symposium: From Economic Security to Economic Statecraft: Insights from Japan, Europe, and the United States
Various Speakers
Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
13:00 - OxFOS26: Cultivating FAIR data across disciplines: Examples of collaborative initiatives and practical tools
Susanna-Assunta Sansone (University of Oxford’s Academic Lead for Research Practice; Professor of Data Readiness, Department of Engineering Science; Director, Oxford e-Research Centre.), Dan Crane (Head of Research Data Management, Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford.), Matt Cannon (Associate Director of Open Science Programmes for Taylor & Francis. Rebecca Taylor-Grant Director of Open Science Strategy & Innovation at Taylor & Francis), Allyson Lister (FAIRsharing Coordinator - Content & Community, Oxford e-Research Centre, University of Oxford.), Beth Knazook (Senior Programme Manager, Research and Engagement, Digital Repository of Ireland), Daniel Manrique-Castano (Research Data Curator, Digital Research Alliance of Canada), Tom Mitchell (Open Access Service Manager, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Open Scholarship
17:00 - A keynote conversation with Saeb Eigner about 'Artists of the Middle East. 1900 to Now.'
Books will be for sale at the event from Oxford bookshop, Caper (caper.fun). *Please note that due to a lift fault, there is unfortunately no step-free access to the Investcorp Lecture Theatre at present. We are working to rectify this as quickly as possible.*
Saeb Eigner (Author)
Book Talks
17:00 - Ma mère as Journal intime and Sheng Cheng’s Journey of Self-Realization in France
Dr Vivienne Xiangwei Guo (King's College London)
China Studies Seminar series
17:00 - Black Monserrat: Race, Migration, and Real Estate in Nineteenth-Century Buenos Aires
Michael Goebel (Freie Universität Berlin)
Latin American Centre Seminars and Events
17:15 - Picturing marvels, magic and monsters at the Ottoman court, 1574–1603
Günseli Gürel (Khalili Research Centre, Oxford)
Khalili Research Centre Seminars
17:15 - Planter's Pageantry and the Pedagogy of Gardening
Julia Hori (University of Cambridge)
Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Friday 6 March 2026

11:00 - OxFOS26: How to do open research safely
Various Speakers
Open Scholarship
14:00 - Hobbes the Egyptian: The Leviathan as Anti-Bible
Robert Yelle (LMU Munich)
Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Tuesday 10 March 2026

16:00 - The Great White Circumcisers of Kenya: a parable for polarised times
Hybrid event. Please use link below for webinar registration.
Mark Lamont (Open University)
Northeast Africa Forum seminar series
17:00 - An Autocratic Middle Class? State Dependency and Protest in the Middle East and North Africa
Professor Neil Ketchley (University of Oxford)
MENA Politics Seminars
17:00 - CANCELLED: Co-opting Piety: Religion, Elite Power, and Democratic Decline in Indonesia
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Dr Chris Chaplin (LSE)
ASEAN Institute seminar series 2026

Wednesday 11 March 2026

Thursday 12 March 2026

12:00 - Ideology Without Unity: The Logic of Xi Jinping Thought
Professor Chris Mittelstaedt (University of Zurich)
China Centre talks
17:00 - Decolonizing Security Studies - a North African perspective
Please note that due to a lift fault, there is unfortunately no step-free access to the Investcorp Lecture Theatre at present. We are working to rectify this as quickly as possible.
Professor Nizar Messari (Al Akhawayn University)
Thursday Seminars (formerly Friday Seminars)
17:00 - From Politics to People? Changing Protagonists and the Transformation of NHK Television News
Dr Yosuke Buchmeier (Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, University of Oxford)
Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
17:00 - Title TBC
TBA
Latin American Centre Seminars and Events
17:00 - Slovakia’s Democratic Oscillation
Professor Tim Haughton (University of Birmingham)
17:00 - Transnational Propaganda and Ethnic Polarization: Experimental Evidence from Malaysia
Dr Jeremy Siow (University of Oxford)
China Studies Seminar series
17:15 - Ancient Stones, Living Meanings: Local Turkish Interpreters' Encounters with Antiquities, 1608–1864
Hüsamettin Şimşir (Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies)
Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Friday 13 March 2026

14:00 - Students Against Apartheid: Collective Emotions and the Making of a Global Movement
Daniel Manulak (Toronto & Oxford)
Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 16 March 2026

12:00 - China–Russia Relations and Allies and Subsidized Capacity Building
Dr Oriana Skylar Mastro (Stanford University)
China Centre talks

Thursday 30 April 2026

15:00 - African Studies Centre Annual Lecture 2026 - Decolonisation: Lessons from post-colonial Uganda
Mahmood Mamdani (Columbia University)

Saturday 9 May 2026

09:45 - Reading Tayeb Salih in the 21st Century
Professor Laurent Mignon (University of Oxford), Mohamed Khalaph, Amal Osman, Dr Apala Das (Bilkent University, Ankara), Timour Muhidine (INALCO, Paris), Dr Lemya Shammat (Kind Saud University, Jeddah), Adil Babikir (Translator, Abu Dhabi), Dr Abdelmagid Abdelrahman Awadelkarim (Majmaah University, Saudia Arabia), Dr Richard Barltrop (LSE Middle East Centre), Dr Ahmed Al-Shahi (The Sudanese Programme)

Wednesday 13 May 2026

17:00 - 2026 George Rousseau Lecture: "Poland was but a breakfast": or, why 1772 helps us to understand 1776
David Armitage (Harvard)
George Rousseau Lectures

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