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

Tuesday 21 October 2025

From redress to reimagining: a decolonial lens on justice for women war survivors in Sri Lanka
Date: 21 October 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Dr Farah Milhar (Oxford Brookes University)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Dahrendorf Room
Organiser: Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Precarious Labour in Precarious Times: The Impact of the War in Israel/Palestine on Non-Citizen Workers
Date: 21 October 2025, 14:15 - 15:45
Speaker : Dr Maayan Nietza (University of Liverpool)
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar room 5
Organiser: Dr Davidi Borabeck (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Davidi Borabeck (University of Oxford)

Of Rule not Revenue: Rethinking fiscal governance and predatory peace in Sudan and South Sudan
Date: 21 October 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Matthew Benson-Strohmayer (LSE)
Venue: 13 Bevington Road, 13 Bevington Road OX2 6NB
Venue Details: Seminar Room, African Studies Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Autocracy 2.0: How China's Rise Reinvented Tyranny
Date: 21 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Jennifer Lind (Dartmouth)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The Amazonian Common Use Territory: Pluriverse or Insurgent Universality?
Date: 21 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
Venue: Latin American Centre Library, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room, Latin American Centre, 1 Church Walk, Oxford
Organiser: Eduardo Posada-Carbó
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 22 October 2025

Between Vernacular and Academic Discourses: Cooperation and Competition in Knowledge Production in Georgia
Date: 22 October 2025, 14:00 - 18:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Syndicate Room, St. Antony's College
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Spectacles of Empire: Colonialism, Gender, and Humanitarianism
Date: 22 October 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Adrita Mitra (Oxford), Mathilde Lyons (University of St Andrews)
Venue: Merton College, Merton Street OX1 4JD
Venue Details: Sir Howard Stringer Room
Organisers: Asma Shakeel (Oxford), Asmita Sarkar (Oxford), Sana Shah (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Reviving Arab governance through structural policy reform
Date: 22 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Mr Raed Charafeddine (Former First Vice Governor of the Central Bank of Lebanon)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 23 October 2025

REF open access policy briefing
Date: 23 October 2025, 10:00 - 11:00
Speaker : Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Political belonging in the Ghana-Togo borderlands: citizenship and the vote at the margins of the state
Date: 23 October 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Speaker : Nathalie Raunet (University of Birmingham)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Dahrendorf Room
Organisers: Michael Odijie (University of Oxford), Dr Miles Tendi (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Regional Financial Arrangements in East Asia
Date: 23 October 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Dr Yoichi Nemoto (Hitotsubashi University)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor Gateway Building
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: Professor Kristi Govella (University of Oxford), Professor Hugh Whittaker (University of Oxford)

Remembering the Nanjing Massacre: Three Theses Revisited
Date: 23 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Licheng Qian (Birmingham City University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organisers: Dr Mark Czeller (University of Oxford), Dr Cheuk Yee Wai (University of Oxford), Professor Tian Yuan Tan (University of Oxford), Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford), Dr Zhe Wang (University of Oxford), Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford), Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford)

Jungle Cities: The Urbanization of Amazonia
Date: 23 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Adrian Lerner Patrón (Cambridge)
Venue: 1 Church Walk, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Latin American Centre, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Postcolonial Writing and Theory Research Seminar
Date: 23 October 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Organisers: Prof. Pablo Mukherjee (Wolfson), Prof. Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford), Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 24 October 2025

"The traitor and agent Tshombe is in the hands of the Algerian revolution": 1960s plane hijackings between global anti-imperialism and international law
Date: 24 October 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Natalya Vince (Oxford)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 28 October 2025

Preregistration and registered reports: What, why, and how
Date: 28 October 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Speaker : Jacqueline Thompson (Bodleian Libraries)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries), Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Beyond the Mountains: Social and Political Imaginaries in Gilgit-Baltistan
Date: 28 October 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Dr Nosheen Ali (NYU)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser: Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The Ethics of the Mothers: Field notes on Mizrahi women's religion of care
Date: 28 October 2025, 14:15 - 15:45
Speaker : Dr Angy Cohen
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar room 5
Organiser: Dr Davidi Borabeck (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Davidi Borabeck (University of Oxford)

Presidential Personalities and Constitutional Power Grabs in Latin America, 1945-2021
Date: 28 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Ignacio Arana Araya (Carnegie Mellon University)
Venue: Latin American Centre Library, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Eduardo Posada-Carbó
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 29 October 2025

Foundations of copyright for teaching
Date: 29 October 2025, 11:00 - 12:30
Speaker s: Chris Morrison (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

The Southern Tour: Deng Xiaoping and the Fight for China’s Future
Date: 29 October 2025, 12:00 - 13:15
Speaker : Dr Jonathan Chatwin
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)

What makes Qumm special in the architecture of 14th-century Iran?
Date: 29 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Robert Hillenbrand (Edinburgh)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 30 October 2025

Soldier's Paradise: Militarism in Africa after Empire
Date: 30 October 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Speaker : Samuel Fury Childs Daly (University of Chicago)
Venue Details: Online via Teams - see link under booking below
Organisers: Michael Odijie (University of Oxford), Dr Miles Tendi (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Culture Must Be Defended: Japanese Conservatism and International Relations
Date: 30 October 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Dr Karin Narita (University of Sheffield)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor Gateway Building
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: Professor Kristi Govella (University of Oxford), Professor Hugh Whittaker (University of Oxford)

Ritualizing Filial Debt: Narrative and Performance in Chinese Popular Religious Storytelling
Date: 30 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Xiaosu Sun (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organisers: Dr Mark Czeller (University of Oxford), Dr Cheuk Yee Wai (University of Oxford), Professor Tian Yuan Tan (University of Oxford), Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford), Dr Zhe Wang (University of Oxford), Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford), Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Tian Yuan Tan (University of Oxford)

División de poderes, diseño institucional y actores políticos. Argentina, siglos XIX y XX
Date: 30 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: Laura Cucchi (Lateinamerika-Institut (Freie Universität Berlin) and LAC), Eduardo Zimmermann (Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina)
Venue: 1 Church Walk, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Latin American Centre, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 31 October 2025

Anti-apartheid in the international imagination: Capitalism, Socialism, Liberalism
Date: 31 October 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Saul Dubow (Cambridge)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 4 November 2025

Making India Work: The Development of Welfare in a Multi-level Democracy
Date: 4 November 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Dr Louise Tillin (King’s College London)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser: Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

From Separation to a Shared Homeland: Notes on Settler-Colonial Urbanism in Israel/Palestine
Date: 4 November 2025, 14:15 - 15:45
Speaker : Professor Haim Yacobi (Bartlett Development Planning Unit)
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar room 5
Organiser: Dr Davidi Borabeck (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Davidi Borabeck (University of Oxford)

The BBC in Latin America: Aligning Journalism and Academia to Make Sense of Today's World
Date: 4 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
Venue: Latin American Centre Library, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Film screening: This is Life 烟火人间
Date: 4 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Jing Wang (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Dr Jing Wang (University of Oxford), Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Bingbing Shi (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 5 November 2025

Memoirs of a Confucius Institute Director: Challenges, Controversies, and Realities
Date: 5 November 2025, 12:00 - 13:15
Speaker : Professor Jinghan Zeng (City University of Hong Kong)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)

Translation, Religion, and Law
Date: 5 November 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Wayan Jarrah Sastrawan (Australian National University), Itamar Toussia Cohen (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Room 20.421, Faculty of History, The Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
Organisers: Asma Shakeel (Oxford), Asmita Sarkar (Oxford), Sana Shah (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Early-modern orientalism and the recreation of the Islamic canon: from collections to catalogues
Date: 5 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Claire Gallien (Tubingen)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 6 November 2025

Copyright the card game
Date: 6 November 2025, 9:30 - 12:30
Speaker s: Chris Morrison (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Science Library, off Parks Road OX1 3QP
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Fundamentals of open access
Date: 6 November 2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker : David Phillips (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Postcolonial Writing and Theory Research Seminar
Date: 6 November 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Tthe Okinaga Room
Organisers: Prof. Pablo Mukherjee (Wolfson), Prof. Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford), Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Does Ethnic Stacking Work?: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Ascriptive Loyalty for Coup Proofing
Date: 6 November 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Speaker : Kristen A. Harkness (University of St. Andrews)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Dahrendorf Room
Organisers: Michael Odijie (University of Oxford), Dr Miles Tendi (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Semiconductors and Transitional Justice: Reassessing Taiwan’s Place in the East Asian Order
Date: 6 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker s: Professor Tsai Chung-ming (National Chengchi University), Professor Yen-Pin Su (National Chengchi University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organisers: Dr Mark Czeller (University of Oxford), Dr Cheuk Yee Wai (University of Oxford), Professor Tian Yuan Tan (University of Oxford), Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford), Dr Zhe Wang (University of Oxford), Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford), Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford)

Set My Heart Bonfire? (Dis)embodiment in Japanese Fiction and Literary Translation
Date: 6 November 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Helen O’Horan
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor Gateway Building
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: Professor Kristi Govella (University of Oxford), Professor Hugh Whittaker (University of Oxford)

Banned Histories: Indigenous Life In Death Records C. 1815 Mexico
Date: 6 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Miriam Melton-Villanueva (University of Nevada, USA)
Venue: 1 Church Walk, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Latin American Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Semiconductors and Transitional Justice: Reassessing Taiwan’s Place in the East Asian Order
Date: 6 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker s: Professor Chung-Min Tsai (National Chengchi University), Professor Yen-Pin Su (National Chengchi University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre, Dickson Poon Building, University of Oxford
Organiser: Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford)
Host: Oxford Taiwan Studies Programme

Friday 7 November 2025

Daring To Be Free: Enslaved Resistance in the Atlantic World
Date: 7 November 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Sudhir Hazareesingh (Oxford)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 11 November 2025

Open monographs
Date: 11 November 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker s: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), David Watson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Forms of the Left for the 21st Century: Contemporary Art, Digital Media, and Repressive Politics in Bangladesh
Date: 11 November 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Lotte Hoek (University of Edinburgh)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser: Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Is the Gaza War the End or the Beginning of Romantic Religious Zionism?
Date: 11 November 2025, 14:15 - 15:45
Speaker : Dr Shlomo Fischer (Jewish People Policy Institute in Jerusalem)
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar room 5
Organiser: Dr Davidi Borabeck (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Davidi Borabeck (University of Oxford)

Panel on the 2026 Elections in Brazil
Date: 11 November 2025, 16:30 - 18:00
Speaker s: Timothy Power (University of Oxford, OSGA), Andreza de Souza Santos (King's College London), Saul Tourinho, Malu Gatto (University College London), Felipe Krause (University of Oxford)
Venue: Latin American Centre Library, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Felipe Krause (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 12 November 2025

The Once and Future World Order: Why Global Civilization Will Survive the Decline of the West
Date: 12 November 2025, 12:00 - 13:15
Speaker : Professor Amitav Acharya (The American University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)

Revolts as rituals of political communication in ‘Abbāsid Baghdad (908-991)
Date: 12 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Fanny Bessard (Trinity)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 13 November 2025

Saharan Winds: Energy Systems and Aeolian Imaginaries in Western Sahara
Date: 13 November 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Speaker : Joanna Allan
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Dahrendorf Room
Organisers: Michael Odijie (University of Oxford), Dr Miles Tendi (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Knowing Hands: Hand-memory Techniques and Handy Knowledge in Ming Daily-use Encyclopedias
Date: 13 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Marta Hanson (Center for Advanced Studies - Erlangen)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organisers: Dr Mark Czeller (University of Oxford), Dr Cheuk Yee Wai (University of Oxford), Professor Tian Yuan Tan (University of Oxford), Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford), Dr Zhe Wang (University of Oxford), Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford), Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford), Dr Chigusa Yamaura (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Words That Move: Emotions in Abe Shinzō’s Foreign Policy Rhetoric
Date: 13 November 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Professor Raymond Yamamoto (Aarhus University)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor Gateway Building
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: Professor Kristi Govella (University of Oxford), Professor Hugh Whittaker (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 13 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : TBA
Venue: 1 Church Walk, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Latin American Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 14 November 2025

The Oppressed Assemble: Socialist Anti-Colonialism and the Promise of Post-Imperial Modernity
Date: 14 November 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Zaib un Nisa Aziz (Cambridge)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Keith Griffin Lecture
Date: 14 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Gillian Tett (Cambridge, FT)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Latin American Centre Fourth Alumni London Networking Drinks
Date: 14 November 2025, 19:00 - 21:00
Speaker
Venue Details: 4 St James's Square, London SW1Y 4JU
Organiser: Eduardo Posada-Carbó (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 18 November 2025

Logistics of open scholarship
Date: 18 November 2025, 10:00 - 11:30
Speaker : Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Introduction to Open Science Framework at Oxford
Date: 18 November 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dan Crane (Bodleian Libraries)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Post colonial capital – a genealogy
Date: 18 November 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Professor Barbara Harriss-White ((Emeritus Professor of Development Studies, Oxford))
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser: Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Intersecting Penalties: Reproducing Inequality Among Palestinian Middle-Class Women
Date: 18 November 2025, 14:15 - 15:45
Speaker : Professor Sarab Abu Rabia-Queder (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar room 5
Organiser: Dr Davidi Borabeck (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Davidi Borabeck (University of Oxford)

Round table on Brazilian elections
Date: 18 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Laurence Whitehead (Nuffield College, Oxford)
Venue: Latin American Centre Library, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Eduardo Posada-Carbó
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 19 November 2025

War, Empire, and Displacement
Date: 19 November 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Megan Hamilton (King's College London), James Hua (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Room 20.501, Department of History of Art, The Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
Organisers: Asma Shakeel (Oxford), Asmita Sarkar (Oxford), Sana Shah (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Film Screening – A Place in the City, by Gabriel Silvestre
Date: 19 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Gabriel Silvestre (Newcastle University)
Venue: Latin American Centre Library, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room, Latin American Centre, 1 Church Walk, Oxford
Organiser: Felipe Krause (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 20 November 2025

Your thesis, copyright & ORA
Date: 20 November 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker s: David Watson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Thomas Mitchell (Bodleian Libraries)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Selling Healing: Creative Arts and Health Communication in Ghana
Date: 20 November 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Speaker : Ama de-Graft Aikins (University of Ghana/London School of Economics and Political Science)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Dahrendorf Room
Organisers: Michael Odijie (University of Oxford), Dr Miles Tendi (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Surnames, Same Sex Marriage, and the Interesting Evolution of Constitutional Litigation in Japan
Date: 20 November 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Professor Colin P.A. Jones (Doshisha Law School)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor Gateway Building
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: Professor Kristi Govella (University of Oxford), Professor Hugh Whittaker (University of Oxford)

Asesor en las sombras: Alvaro Puga, un propagandista de los servicios de inteligencia de Pinochet
Date: 20 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Juan Cristóbal Peña (Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Chile)
Venue: 1 Church Walk, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Latin American Centre, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Postcolonial Writing and Theory Research Seminar
Date: 20 November 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Organisers: Prof. Pablo Mukherjee (Wolfson), Prof. Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford), Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Film Screening & Director Q&A: To Kill a Mongolian Horse
Date: 20 November 2025, 17:30 - 20:30
Speaker : Xiaoxuan Jiang (Film Director)
Venue Details: Garden Quad Auditorium
Organisers: Dr Mark Czeller (University of Oxford), Dr Cheuk Yee Wai (University of Oxford), Professor Tian Yuan Tan (University of Oxford), Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford), Dr Zhe Wang (University of Oxford), Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford), Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Anna Lora-Wainwright (University of Oxford)

Friday 21 November 2025

Incommensurable histories: Mexican Japanese life experiences during the Second World War - XIIth Guerra Seminar (In Paris)
Date: 21 November 2025, 10:30 - 11:30
Speaker : Jessica Fernández de Lara Harada (Oxford)
Venue Details: Paris
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Civil Wars and the End of the Cold War: Hypotheses for Global History
Date: 21 November 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Jeremy Adelman (Princeton & Cambridge)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 25 November 2025

Student volunteering in historical perspective: debates and tensions in Israeli higher education
Date: 25 November 2025, 14:15 - 15:45
Speaker : Dr Adi Sapir (University of Haifa)
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar room 5
Organiser: Dr Davidi Borabeck (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Davidi Borabeck (University of Oxford)

The Uncertain State: Uncertainty as everyday experience and mode of governmentality in contemporary India
Date: 25 November 2025, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Geert de Neve (University of Sussex)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organisers: Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford), Prof Nandini Gooptu (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Institutions and Civil Society Organizations: Experimental evidence from Peru
Date: 25 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Paula Muñoz Chirinos (Universidad del Pacífico)
Venue: Latin American Centre Library, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room, Latin American Centre, 1 Church Walk, Oxford
Organiser: Eduardo Posada-Carbó
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 26 November 2025

Preregistration and registered reports: What, why, and how
Date: 26 November 2025, 10:30 - 12:00
Speaker : Jacqueline Thompson (Bodleian Libraries)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries), Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Waning crescent: The rise and fall of global Islam
Date: 26 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Faisal Devji (University of Oxford)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 27 November 2025

The Soldier, the Activist, and the Writer: On Telling a Family Story of Colonial Afterlives
Date: 27 November 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Speaker : Simukai Chigudu (University of Oxford)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Dahrendorf Room
Organisers: Michael Odijie (University of Oxford), Dr Miles Tendi (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The Soul-loosing Grid (mihun zhen 迷魂陣) and other Novelese Battle Arrays (zhen 陣): A Tentative Exploration of a 'Fictional' Reconstruction of Military Arts, Taoist Rituals, Performing Arts and Black Magic
Date: 27 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Vincent Durand-Dastès (INALCO, Paris)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organisers: Dr Mark Czeller (University of Oxford), Dr Cheuk Yee Wai (University of Oxford), Professor Tian Yuan Tan (University of Oxford), Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford), Dr Zhe Wang (University of Oxford), Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford), Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

How Firms, Bureaucrats, and Ministries Benefit from the Revolving Door: Evidence from Japan
Date: 27 November 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Professor Trevor Incerti (University of Amsterdam)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor Gateway Building
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: Professor Kristi Govella (University of Oxford), Professor Hugh Whittaker (University of Oxford)

Friday 28 November 2025

Art and Decolonial Love: Visualizing Just Futures in the Chicanx Civil Rights Movement
Date: 28 November 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Charlene Villaseñor Black (Oxford)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Underground Network of Liberation Theology in Latin America
Date: 28 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: Niall Geraghty (UCL), Pablo Bradbury (Greenwich)
Venue: 1 Church Walk, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Latin American Centre, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 1 December 2025

Termly update on open scholarship
Date: 1 December 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 2 December 2025

Strange Fruit in Comparative Perspective
Date: 2 December 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Dr Adnan Naseemullah (Kings College London)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser: Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The Ottoman Production of Ashkenazi Identity
Date: 2 December 2025, 14:15 - 15:45
Speaker : Dr Yair Wallach (SOAS Centre for Jewish Studies)
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar room 5
Organiser: Dr Davidi Borabeck (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Davidi Borabeck (University of Oxford)

US and Latin America
Date: 2 December 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Michael McKinley (Former US Ambassador in Perú, Brazil and Colombia)
Venue: Latin American Centre Library, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 3 December 2025

Knowledge, Science, and Development across Global Contexts
Date: 3 December 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Madeline White (Oxford), Koyna Tomar (University of Pennsylvania)
Venue Details: Room 20.421, Faculty of History
Organisers: Asma Shakeel (Oxford), Asmita Sarkar (Oxford), Sana Shah (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The role of media in a changing world
Date: 3 December 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Mr Nic Robertson (CNN International)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 4 December 2025

Introduction to Persistent Identifiers
Date: 4 December 2025, 10:00 - 11:30
Speaker : Dan Crane (Bodleian Libraries)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

The Town and Gown in Ibadan: Re-exploring the Legends of Mbari
Date: 4 December 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Speaker : Olutayo C. Adesina (University of Ibadan)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Dahrendorf Room
Organisers: Michael Odijie (University of Oxford), Dr Miles Tendi (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The Making of a Neglected Disease: Trachoma Research and Control in Twentieth-century China
Date: 4 December 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Mary Augusta Brazelton (Cambridge)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organisers: Dr Mark Czeller (University of Oxford), Dr Cheuk Yee Wai (University of Oxford), Professor Tian Yuan Tan (University of Oxford), Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford), Dr Zhe Wang (University of Oxford), Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford), Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Wuyutong Yao (University of Oxford)

Dead Letters: Reuse, Recycling, and Emotions in Japanese Buddhist Manuscripts
Date: 4 December 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Dr Halle O’Neal (University of Edinburgh)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor Gateway Building
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: Professor Kristi Govella (University of Oxford), Professor Hugh Whittaker (University of Oxford)

Federal Interventions and the Making of a Bourgeois Republic under Getúlio Vargas’ administrations in Brazil (1930–1945) - XIIIth Guerra Seminar (in Oxford)
Date: 4 December 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Ana Laura Fraga (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), France)
Venue: 1 Church Walk, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Latin American Centre, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Postcolonial Writing and Theory Research Seminar
Date: 4 December 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Organisers: Prof. Pablo Mukherjee (Wolfson), Prof Elleke Boehmer (English, Oxford), Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 5 December 2025

The Americas in Catholicism’s Global Cold War
Date: 5 December 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Daniel McDonald (Oxford)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 9 December 2025

REF open access policy briefing
Date: 9 December 2025, 10:00 - 11:00
Speaker : Sarah Humphries (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 11 February 2025

Playing in the open: Getting familiar with Creative Commons licences
Date: 11 February 2026, 9:30 - 11:00
Speaker s: Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Science Library, off Parks Road OX1 3QP
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

This list contains talks from the following series:
9th Ratanbai Katrak Lectures
After Rome and Further East Seminar
China Centre talks
China Studies Seminar series
George Rousseau Lectures
Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
Greco-Roman and East-Asian Classics events (Janus Project)
Grinfield Lectures on The Septuagint 2024 | SÉBASTIEN MORLET - “The Plurality of the Biblical Text - Past and Present”
Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire
Interreligious Interactions in South Asia (Virtual Colloquium)
Islamicate Intellectual History Seminar Series
Magic, Maths, Mamluks, and Mongols: History of Islamic Science at the Boundaries
Mandarin Forum
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Middle East Centre Seminar Series
Modern Jewish Thought Seminar
Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
New Testament Seminar
Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
Open Scholarship
Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
Oxford Centre for Global History events
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies - Events
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
Oxford China Reading Group (OxCRG)
Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar
Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures
RSC Trinity Term Public Seminar Series
Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)
SEMINAR ON JEWISH HISTORY AND LITERATURE IN THE GRAECO-ROMAN PERIOD
Silence and Visuality Seminar Series in Armenian Art and History
South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
The 54th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies: Material Religion in Byzantium & Beyond
TOSCCA/ONGC Seminar series
TOSCCA/ONGC Seminar series on the Caucasus and Central Asia
Transnational & Global History Seminar
Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China