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

Monday 24 November 2025

Is China Building a Rival International Order and How Would We Know?
Date: 24 November 2025, 12:00 - 13:15
Speaker : Professor Matthew D. Stephen (Helmut Schmidt University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 25 November 2025

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

Navigating Manhood in Zambia’s Livingstone and the Copperbelt during the ‘Golden Era of Modern Manhood’ (mid-1940s–late-1970s)
Date: 25 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Kazmel Hamweemba (University of Oxford)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2
Organiser: Ila Axelrod (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Breaking New Ground on the Global Stage: Memoirs of Kuwait's First Woman Ambassador
Date: 25 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Ambassador Nabeela Al Mulla (Author)
Venue: 68 Woodstock Road, Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: MEC Boardroom, Kirdar Building, 68 Woodstock Road
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

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

Book Launch: Waning crescent: The rise and fall of global Islam
Date: 26 November 2025, 16:30 - 17:30
Speaker : Professor Faisal Devji (University of Oxford)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Antechapel
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 27 November 2025

Stranger Visions: Ghuraba’ and Egypt’s Ideological Crisis
Date: 27 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Walter Armbrust (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

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)

King Faisal Lecture: The Medieval Islamic Republic of Letters
Date: 27 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Muhsin Jassim al-Musawi (Columbia University)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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

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

Roundtable discussion
Date: 2 December 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Seminar Room 1
Organiser: Ila Axelrod (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Video Vices and Terminal Futures
Date: 2 December 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Julia Keblinska (University of Cambridge)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organisers: TBA
Host: Dr Bingbing Shi (University of Oxford)

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

Roundtable: How people keep democracy alive in Latin America
Date: 3 December 2025, 15:00 - 17:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Seminar Room 3
Organiser: Professor Laura Rival (University of 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 Code of Karam: How Literature Shapes Post-Revolutionary Social Spaces in Cairo
Date: 4 December 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Giedrė Šabasevičiūtė (Czech Academy of Sciences)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

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)

'Irony, Agency and African Global Imaginaries: Book Discussion'
Date: 4 December 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Dr Penny Cartwright (Oxford)
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