Wednesday 21 May 2025

• 17:00 - Building State Capacity in Fragile States
  Dr Michael Callen (London School of Economics)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 22 May 2025

• 16:00 - The Homecoming - BBC Africa Eye
  Filmscreening
• 17:00 - Title TBC
  TBA
  Latin American History Seminar
• 17:00 - TANGO IN JAPAN: Cosmopolitanism Beyond the West
  Dr Yuiko Asaba (SOAS)
• 17:00 - TANGO IN JAPAN: Cosmopolitanism Beyond the West
  Dr Yuiko Asaba (SOAS)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
• 17:15 - Emergency as Genre
  Ayelet Ben-Yishai (Haifa)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Friday 23 May 2025

• 17:00 - Decolonial and Indigenous Military Geographies of Okinawa and Beyond
  Dr Hidefumi Nishiyama (University of Oulu)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Monday 26 May 2025

• 12:00 - Institutional Genes: The Origins of China’s Institutions and Totalitarianism
  Dr Chenggang Xu (Stanford University)
  China Centre talks
• 17:00 - How to Move the Masses on Chinese Social Media: A Narrative-Platform Approach
  Professor Guobin Yang (University of Pennsylvania)
  China Studies Seminar series

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
• 17:00 - Indigenous Justice In Bolivia And The Travails Of Plurinational Constitutionalism
  René Provost (McGuill University)
  LAC Main Seminar Series

Wednesday 28 May 2025

• 09:30 - Fourth Annual Oxford-Georgia Forum: Quo Vadis, Georgia?
  Various Speakers
• 10:00 - Open Scholarship: Introduction to Persistent Identifiers
  Neil Jefferies (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 14:30 - Open Scholarship: Introduction to Open Science Framework at Oxford
  Neil Jefferies (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - The Origins of Perso-Islamic Courts and Empires in India
  Professor Blain Auer (University of Lausanne)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 29 May 2025

• 17:00 - A Confucian Academy in 21st Century Hebei: Rethinking 'truth' in Chinese Religion
  Dr Gareth Breen (LSE)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:00 - Pombal’s reforms in Brazil
  Kenneth Maxwell (Harvard University)
  Latin American History Seminar

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
• 15:00 - Open Scholarship: Your thesis, copyright & ORA
  David Watson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Thomas Mitchell (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship

Wednesday 4 June 2025

• 14:30 - 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
• 17:00 - Iran’s Crisis of Governance
  Professor Anoush Ehteshami (Durham University)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 5 June 2025

• 17:00 - Startup Capitalism: New Approaches to Innovation Strategies in East Asia
  Dr Robyn Klingler-Vidra (King's College London)
  Oxford Taiwan Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Sir John Elliott Memorial Lecture Between Imperial History and Global History: Sir John Elliott, Historian of the Americas
  There will be no seminar this week due to the Sir John Elliott Memorial lecture, for which the registration deadline is midday on 30 April 2025
  Serge Gruzinski (CNRS, EHESS)
  Latin American History Seminar
• 17:00 - Startup Capitalism: New Approaches to Innovation Strategies in China and Taiwan?
  Dr Robyn Klingler-Vidra (Reader in Entrepreneurship & Sustainability | Associate Dean, Global Engagement King’s Business School | King’s College London), Professor Ramon Pacheco Pardo (King's College London)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 6 June 2025

• 09:30 - Security and Warfare in Ukraine: Domestic and Global Developments Post-2022
  Please note in-person places are limited.
  Various Speakers
• 10:30 - Southern Encounters: Nanyang and New Cultural Regionalities in Chinese Studies
  Various Speakers
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China

Monday 9 June 2025

• 15:00 - Open Scholarship: REF open access policy briefing
  Sarah Humphries (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Tuesday 10 June 2025

• 14:00 - Rangoonwala Fellows: Development and Displacement in Pakistan
  Ilyas Chattha (Lahore University of Management Sciences), Azeema Cheema (Verso Consulting), Arslan Waheed (Institute of Business Administration, Karachi)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 11 June 2025

• 17:00 - Al-Ghazālī and the Ideal of Godlikeness
  Dr Sophia Vasalou (University of Birmingham)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 12 June 2025

• 14:30 - Open Scholarship: Fundamentals of open access
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Beth Saward (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - ‘Non-People’ in the People’s Republic: Class Enemies in Maoist China
  Dr Mark Czellér (University of London)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 13 June 2025

• 17:00 - Henry Charles Lea, the Inquisition, and the Origins of Scientific History in the United States
  Joint Seminar RAI/Iberian History Seminar/ Latin American History Seminar
  Richard Kagan (Johns Hopkins University)
  Latin American History Seminar

Monday 16 June 2025

• 17:00 - Is Taiwan Leading Asia in Women’s Political Representation?
  Professor Chang-ling Huang (National Taiwan University)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:00 - Is Taiwan Leading Asia in Women's Political Representation?
  Professor Chang-ling Huang (National Taiwan University)
  Oxford Taiwan Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 17 June 2025

• 14:00 - Title TBC
  Rohini Pande (Yale University)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - I Film, Therefore We Are: Chinese Labourers, UGC, and the New Collective Documentary
  Dr Jing Wang (University of Oxford)
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China

Wednesday 18 June 2025

• 17:00 - A Bridge to the Sky: From ibn Firnas (d. 887) and the Cordoban Court to Imagining Baghdad in Assassin’s Creed Mirage
  Dr Glaire Anderson (University of Edinburgh)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 19 June 2025

• 12:30 - Rewriting the Land: Culture, the Early Marx, and the Brazilian Landless Workers’ Movement (MST)
  Daniel Hartley (Durham)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Friday 20 June 2025

• 12:00 - Constructing Chinese Plans: China’s Multi-Tiered and Diverse Approaches to Global Governance Reform
  Professor Bowen Yu (Fudan University)
  China Centre talks
• 17:00 - Title TBC
  TBA
  Latin American History Seminar

Wednesday 25 June 2025

• 13:00 - Choosing open access for books: An author journey
  Judith Fathallah (Lancaster University, Coventry University, Open Book Collective)
  Open Scholarship
• 14:00 - Open Scholarship: Copyright the card game
  Chris Morrison (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Thursday 26 June 2025

• 11:00 - Day 1: Oxford Transnational and Global History Conference 2025 - Global Empires: Transitions, Imaginations, and Contestations
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Centre for Global History events
• 17:00 - Burnout Market Feminism: Urban Chinese Businesswomen in the Internet Age
  Dr Ling Tang (University of Melbourne)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 27 June 2025

• 09:00 - Day 2: Oxford Transnational and Global History Conference 2025 - Global Empires: Transitions, Imaginations, and Contestations
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Centre for Global History events

Tuesday 1 July 2025

• 10:00 - Open Scholarship: Logistics of open scholarship
  Sarah Humphries (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Monday 7 July 2025

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

Thursday 24 July 2025

• 14:30 - Open Scholarship: Fundamentals of open access
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), David Phillips (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship