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

Tuesday 13 January 2025

Archiving and preservation for open access monographs
Date: 13 January 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker s: Dr Rupert Gatti (Open Book Publishers), Dr Gareth Cole (University of Exeter), Dr Holly Turpin (Loughborough University)
Venue Details: Online
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Host: Office for Open Research

Thursday 22 January 2025

The Rise and Fall of the Konbini: Cold Chains, Retail Wars and Logistical Friction in Postwar Japan
Date: 22 January 2026, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Paul Kreitman (Columbia 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 (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 27 January 2025

Rescuing Sex Work from Anti-Trafficking: Theorising Anti-Trafficking Politics from the Philippines.
Date: 27 January 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Sharmila Parmanand (LSE)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Dahrendorf Room
Organiser: Professor Jacob Ricks (Singapore Management University)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 29 January 2025

Soeda and the Making of Modern Japan
Date: 29 January 2026, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Professor Ian Neary (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

Thursday 5 February 2025

Anarchist Association: Knowledge, Language, and the History of the Modern World
Date: 5 February 2026, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Dr Robert Kramm (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
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

Tuesday 10 February 2025

Title TBC
Date: 10 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Jacob Ricks (Singapore Management University)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Dahrendorf Room
Organiser: Professor Jacob Ricks (Singapore Management University)
Host: Professor Jacob Ricks (Singapore Management University)

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

Thursday 12 February 2025

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

Thursday 19 February 2025

Japan's Aristocratic 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

Tuesday 24 February 2025

Title TBC
Date: 24 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Lena Rethel (University of Warwick)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Dahrendorf Room
Organiser: Professor Jacob Ricks (Singapore Management University)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 26 February 2025

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

Thursday 5 March 2025

Symposium: From Economic Security to Economic Statecraft: Insights from Japan, Europe, and the United States
Date: 5 March 2026, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor Gateway Building
Organiser: Professor Kristi Govella (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 10 March 2025

Co-opting Piety: Religion, Elite Power, and Democratic Decline in Indonesia
Date: 10 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Chris Chaplin (LSE)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Dahrendorf Room
Organiser: Professor Jacob Ricks (Singapore Management University)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 12 March 2025

Reluctant Warriors No More? Japan and Germany Before and After Ukraine
Date: 12 March 2026, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Professor Ellis Krauss (University of California San Diego)
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

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