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

Friday 27 February 2026

Industrial Internet as a Governance Instrument: Intergovernmental Dynamics in China’s Manufacturing Digital Transformation
Date: 27 February 2026, 12:00 - 13:15
Speaker : Zhihang Wang (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lucina Ho Seminar Room (first floor)
Organisers: Dr Yang Han (University of Oxford), Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)

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

On the coast of the Monsoon: Italian colonialism the environmental history of Somalia (1889-1960)
Date: 2 March 2026, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Angelo Caglioti (Columbia University)
Venue Details: Online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
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

BOOK TALK: Contemporary Islamist Opposition in Morocco: Resisting Inclusion and Moderation
Date: 3 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Alfonso Casani (Complutense University of Madrid)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 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 Michael Willis (St Antony's College)

Book launch for Chasing Freedom: Coming of Age at the End of Empire
Date: 3 March 2026, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker s: Professor Simukai Chigudu (Associate Professor of African Politics and Fellow of St Antony's College), Prof Jonny Steinberg (University of Oxford)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Seminar Room 3
Organisers: TBA
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 (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)
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Jackie Thompson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Ruth Mallalieu (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

A keynote conversation with Saeb Eigner about 'Artists of the Middle East. 1900 to Now.'
Date: 5 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Saeb Eigner (Author)
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)

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

Book Launch | Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism
Date: 10 March 2026, 16:30 - 19:00
Speaker : Dr Thea Riofrancos (Providence College)
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Researchers Common Room, Oxford EARTH
Organisers: TIDE Centre (University of Oxford), OxEARTH
Hosts: TIDE Centre (University of Oxford), OxEARTH

An Autocratic Middle Class? State Dependency and Protest in the Middle East and North Africa
Date: 10 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Neil Ketchley (University of Oxford)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 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: Dr Maryam Alemzadeh (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

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: Biology South Parks Road, South Parks Road OX1 3RB
Venue Details: Seminar Room 1, The Life and Mind Building
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

How Economic Reform Revived Totalitarian Rule in China
Date: 11 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Minxin Pei (Claremont McKenna College)
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: Professor Patricia Thornton (University of Oxford), Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)

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: 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), Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Decolonizing Security Studies - a North African perspective
Date: 12 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Nizar Messari (Al Akhawayn University)
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 Michael Willis (St Antony's College)

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

Transnational Propaganda and Ethnic Polarization: Experimental Evidence from Malaysia
Date: 12 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Jeremy Siow (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)

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

Monday 16 March 2026

China–Russia Relations and Allies and Subsidized Capacity Building
Date: 16 March 2026, 12:00 - 13:15
Speaker : Dr Oriana Skylar Mastro (Stanford 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)

Tuesday 17 March 2026

The Sudans on the Spotlight: Voices from the Field
Date: 17 March 2026, 13:30 - 15:30
Speaker s: Mr. Albino Gaw Dar (University of Upper Nile, Juba), Dr Matthew Sterling Benson-Strohmayer (London School of Economics & Political Science), Dr Naomi Pendle (University of Bath), Dr Douglas Johnson, Matai Muon (University of Oxford)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Seminar Room 1
Organiser: Matai Muon (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 4 May 2026

Islamic China: An Asian History
Date: 4 May 2026, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Dr Rian Thum (University of Manchester)
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: Dr Zhe Wang (University of Oxford)

Saturday 9 May 2026

Reading Tayeb Salih in the 21st Century
Date: 9 May 2026, 9:45 - 18:00
Speaker s: 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)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (University of Oxford), Dr Ahmed Al-Shahi (The Sudanese Programme), Middle East Centre
Hosts: Professor Laurent Mignon (University of Oxford), Dr Ahmed Al-Shahi (Chair and Trustee, The Sudanese Programme)

Wednesday 13 May 2026

2026 George Rousseau Lecture: "Poland was but a breakfast": or, why 1772 helps us to understand 1776
Date: 13 May 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : David Armitage (Harvard)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Auditorium
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 4 June 2026

Do Old-Age Security Concerns Still Motivate Fertility in China?
Date: 4 June 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Yang Hu (University College London)
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 Zhe Wang (University of Oxford)

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