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

Tuesday 10 February 2026

Title TBC
Date: 10 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Nyasha Mukonoweshuro (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

Performing Inter-Asian Relationality at the Archipelago of Sinophone People’s Theatre
Date: 10 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Justyna Jaguścik (University of Bern)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Aoife Cantrill (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 11 February 2026

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

Imperial Circulations: Climate Knowledge, Port Labor, and Material Worlds
Date: 11 February 2026, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Cherry Briggs (Independent Researcher), Alison Bennett (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Room 20.513, The Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: Asma Shakeel (Oxford), Asmita Sarkar (Oxford), Sana Shah (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Can queering ecology help us address environmental destruction?
Date: 11 February 2026, 15:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Cannelle Gueguen-Teil (University of Oxford)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Meeting Room A
Organiser: Professor Laura Rival (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Hajj and the Art of Pilgrimage
Date: 11 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Sir Nasser Khalili (Khalili Foundation)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 12 February 2026

The Way Out: Justice in the Queer Search for Refuge - Book Launch
Date: 12 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: Dr Rebecca Buxton (University of Bristol), Dr. Samuel Ritholtz (University of Oxford)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: The Old Library
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Right-wing Shift towards Immigrant Exclusion in Japan and Beyond
Date: 12 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Hideki Tarumoto (Waseda University)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor Gateway Building
Organisers: Dr Yosuke Buchmeier (Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, University of Oxford), Professor Roger Goodman (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Contested Sovereignty: Planners, Residents and Chinese-led urban Development in Nairobi, Kenya
Date: 12 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Elisa Tamburo (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre
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 Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford)

New Granddaughters of Africa: the genealogical sagas of Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, Namwali Serpell and Yaa Gyasi
Date: 12 February 2026, 17:15 - 18:45
Speaker : Hannah Fagan (Mansfield College)
Venue Details: Room 10.424, English ‘hub’, Schwarzman building.
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 13 February 2026

Italian Fascism, the Holy See and the Nationalist Government During the First Apostolic Delegation to China (1922-1933)
Date: 13 February 2026, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Chiara D'Auria (UNISA)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 17 February 2026

On the Sultan’s Secret Service: Oman, Rhodesia, and the CargOman Affair
Date: 17 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Naif Alrogi (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

Wednesday 18 February 2026

Master class: Nature and modes of law making
Date: 18 February 2026, 15:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Laura Rival (University of Oxford)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Meeting Room A
Organiser: Professor Laura Rival (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Coolie Migrants, Indian Diplomacy: Caste, Class, and Indenture Abroad, 1914-67
Date: 18 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Kalathmika Natarajan (University of Exeter)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Seminar room one
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Imams and patrons: service provision by Islamic non-state actors
Date: 18 February 2026, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker : Dr Tugba Bozcaga (KCL)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 19 February 2026

Japan's Spongy-Middle Revolution
Date: 19 February 2026, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Professor David Howell (Harvard University)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor Gateway Building
Organisers: Dr Yosuke Buchmeier (Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, University of Oxford), Professor Roger Goodman (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Politics in the Peripheries: The Spatial and Relational Dimensions of China’s ‘Democratic Parties and Groups'
Date: 19 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Henrike Rudolph (University of Göttingen)
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 Mark Czeller (University of Oxford)

Friday 20 February 2026

Campaigning and Counter-Insurgency in the Creole Archipelago: The British Struggle in the Revolutionary Caribbean
Date: 20 February 2026, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : David Lambert (Warwick)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 23 February 2026

EDI Research Spotlight: Discrimination and Decolonisation
Date: 23 February 2026, 13:30 - 17:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 24 February 2026

Emotions in the Politics of Water: China–India Tensions over Tibetan Rivers
Date: 24 February 2026, 12:00 - 13:15
Speaker : Dr Antonina Łuszczykiewicz-Mendis (Jagiellonian 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)

Tim Freeman’s malaria trials and the monetisation of impregnated mosquito nets in Gokwe, northwest Zimbabwe, 1993-1996
Date: 24 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Asa Mudzimu (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

'Steel is the most romantic thing in the world': Industrial party time-travel novels and the digital fantasy fiction boom
Date: 24 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Jessica Imbach (University of Freiburg)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organiser: Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Bingbing Shi (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 25 February 2026

Transnational Trade & Labour History
Date: 25 February 2026, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Camille Neufville (University of Strasbourg), Amrit Deol (California State University, Fresno)
Venue Details: Room 20.402, The Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: Asma Shakeel (Oxford), Asmita Sarkar (Oxford), Sana Shah (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Master class: Priceless or unmarketable? Nature and its free gifts
Date: 25 February 2026, 15:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Laura Rival (University of Oxford)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Meeting Room A
Organiser: Professor Laura Rival (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Anthropology of Good: Exploring Volunteerism in the 2015 European Refugee Crisis
Date: 25 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: Professor Dawn Chatty (University of Oxford), Audra Morris (University of Oxford)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Seminar room one
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

From divine sovereignty to national legitimacy: transformations in the theology of political Islam
Date: 25 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Jocelyn Cesari (University of Birmingham)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 26 February 2026

Valedictory Lecture: Technology Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Governance: A Retrospective of 40 years
Date: 26 February 2026, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Professor Hugh Whittaker (University of Oxford)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor Gateway Building
Organisers: Dr Yosuke Buchmeier (Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, University of Oxford), Professor Roger Goodman (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Collaborative creative practice in South African fiction
Date: 26 February 2026, 17:15 - 18:45
Speaker : Caitlin Stobie (Leeds University)
Venue Details: Room 10.424, English ‘hub’, Schwarzman building
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Feeling Safe but Not Ready: Disaster Risk Perception and Urban Resilience in Baltic Capitals
Date: 26 February 2026, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr. Didzis Kļaviņš (University of Latvia)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Seminar Room 1
Organisers: Emily Usherwood (Oxford Department of International Development), Jo Boyce (University of Oxford, Oxford Dept of International Development)
Host: Professor Corneliu Bjola (University of Oxford)

Friday 27 February 2026

Fascist India: Race, Caste and Hindutva [Book Talk]
Date: 27 February 2026, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Luna Sabastian (Northeastern University London)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 2 March 2026

OxFOS26: AI versus open research: Exploring the evolving tensions
Date: 2 March 2026, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Weston Library, Broad Street OX1 3BG
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: Jackie Thompson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Ruth Mallalieu (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 3 March 2026

OxFOS26: The future of Rights Retention to protect researchers' copyright
Date: 3 March 2026, 11:00 - 13:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Weston Library, Broad Street OX1 3BG
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: Jackie Thompson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Ruth Mallalieu (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

OxFOS26: Future of open research in humanities and social sciences
Date: 3 March 2026, 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Weston Library, Broad Street OX1 3BG
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: Jackie Thompson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Ruth Mallalieu (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 4 March 2026

OxFOS26: Oxford Forum of Open Scholarship - Conference day
Date: 4 March 2026, 10:00 - 19:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Weston Library, Broad Street OX1 3BG
Organisers: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Jackie Thompson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Ruth Mallalieu (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Master class: If Nature was the question, would biomimicry be the answer?
Date: 4 March 2026, 15:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Laura Rival (University of Oxford)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Meeting Room A
Organiser: Professor Laura Rival (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Grounding the Components of an Ethical Response to Refugees
Date: 4 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Dr Bradley Hillier-Smith (University of St Andrews)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Transnational ties of faith: Imdadullah’s letters and writings from the Hijaz during the late-19th century
Date: 4 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Moin Ahmad Nizami (Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 5 March 2026

Symposium: From Economic Security to Economic Statecraft: Insights from Japan, Europe, and the United States
Date: 5 March 2026, 9:30 - 18:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Nissan Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Kristi Govella (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

OxFOS26: Cultivating FAIR data across disciplines: Examples of collaborative initiatives and practical tools
Date: 5 March 2026, 13:00 - 15:00
Speaker s: Susanna-Assunta Sansone, Allyson Lister, Dan Crane, Beth Knazook
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: Jackie Thompson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Ruth Mallalieu (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Sarah Humphries (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Ma mère as Journal intime and Sheng Cheng’s Journey of Self-Realization in France
Date: 5 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Vivienne Xiangwei Guo (King's College London)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organiser: Dr Mark Czeller (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Mark Czeller (University of Oxford)

Planter's Pageantry and the Pedagogy of Gardening
Date: 5 March 2026, 17:15 - 18:45
Speaker : Julia Hori (University of Cambridge)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Okinaga Room, Wadham College
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 6 March 2026

OxFOS26: How to do open research safely
Date: 6 March 2026, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Online
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Hobbes the Egyptian: The Leviathan as Anti-Bible
Date: 6 March 2026, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Robert Yelle (LMU Munich)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 10 March 2026

Strikes, refusal, troublemaking: Workers’ resistance to and disruption of German rule in colonial Namibia
Date: 10 March 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Malin Bornemann (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

Wednesday 11 March 2026

Imperial and Postcolonial Regimes of Expertise: Medicine, Development, and Environmental Limits
Date: 11 March 2026, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Sudarshana Banerjee (University of St Andrews), Rishabh Bajoria (National University of Singapore)
Venue Details: Room 20.402, The Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: Asma Shakeel (Oxford), Asmita Sarkar (Oxford), Sana Shah (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

When Ground Gives Way: Attentive Responsiveness and Reimagining Scientific Authority
Date: 11 March 2026, 15:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Olga Ulturgasheva (University of Manchester)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: tbc
Organiser: Professor Laura Rival (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Responsibility Sharing in International Refugee Law: Towards Common but Differentiated Legal Obligations
Date: 11 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Dr Elizabeth Mavropoulou (University of Westminster)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Seminar room one
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Leviathan's health: state capacity and epidemics from the Black Death to Covid
Date: 11 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Sheilagh Ogilvie (University of Oxford)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 12 March 2026

Ideology Without Unity: The Logic of Xi Jinping Thought
Date: 12 March 2026, 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker : Professor Chris Mittelstaedt (University of Zurich)
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), Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

From Politics to People? Changing Protagonists and the Transformation of NHK Television News
Date: 12 March 2026, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Dr Yosuke Buchmeier (Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, University of Oxford)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor Gateway Building
Organisers: Dr Yosuke Buchmeier (Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, University of Oxford), Professor Roger Goodman (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 13 March 2026

Students Against Apartheid: Collective Emotions and the Making of a Global Movement
Date: 13 March 2026, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Daniel Manulak (Toronto & Oxford)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
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