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

Wednesday 11 June 2025

Al-Ghazālī and the Ideal of Godlikeness
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 11 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Sophia Vasalou (University of Birmingham)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture 2025 | Living Archives: Palestinian Displacement in Lebanon
Date: 11 June 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Professor Diana Allan (McGill University)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Seminar Room 3
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 12 June 2025

Open Scholarship: Fundamentals of open access
Date: 12 June 2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker s: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Beth Saward (Bodleian Libraries)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Zaha Hadid: A Life in Architecture
Date: 12 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Joseph Giovannini (Giovannini Associates)
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)

‘Non-People’ in the People’s Republic: Class Enemies in Maoist China
Date: 12 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Mark Czellér (University of London)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organisers: Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford), Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford), Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford), Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford), Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford), Dr Chigusa Yamaura (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford)

Monday 16 June 2025

Is Taiwan Leading Asia in Women’s Political Representation?
Date: 16 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Chang-ling Huang (National Taiwan University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford), Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford), Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford), Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford), Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford), Dr Chigusa Yamaura (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 17 June 2025

A woman’s work is never done: Gender norms and Indian female labor force participation
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 17 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Rohini Pande (Yale University)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser: Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

I Film, Therefore We Are: Chinese Labourers, UGC, and the New Collective Documentary
Date: 17 June 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 (lower ground floor)
Organiser: Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 18 June 2025

A Bridge to the Sky: From ibn Firnas (d. 887) and the Cordoban Court to Imagining Baghdad in Assassin’s Creed Mirage
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 18 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Glaire Anderson (University of Edinburgh)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 19 June 2025

POSTPONED: Rewriting the Land: Culture, the Early Marx, and the Brazilian Landless Workers’ Movement (MST)
Date: 19 June 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Daniel Hartley (Durham)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: History of the Book Room
Organisers: Prof. Pablo Mukherjee (Wolfson), Prof. Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford), Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 20 June 2025

Constructing Chinese Plans: China’s Multi-Tiered and Diverse Approaches to Global Governance Reform
Date: 20 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:15
Speaker : Professor Bowen Yu (Fudan 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)

Wednesday 25 June 2025

Choosing open access for books: An author journey
Date: 25 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Judith Fathallah (Lancaster University, Coventry University, Open Book Collective)
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: Jacqueline Thompson (Bodleian Libraries), Beth Saward (Bodleian Libraries), Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: Jacqueline Thompson (Bodleian Libraries), Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)

Open Scholarship: Copyright the card game
Date: 25 June 2025, 14:00 - 17:00
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

Thursday 26 June 2025

Day 1: Oxford Transnational and Global History Conference 2025 - Global Empires: Transitions, Imaginations, and Contestations
Date: 26 June 2025, 11:00 - 17:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Burnout Market Feminism: Urban Chinese Businesswomen in the Internet Age
Date: 26 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Ling Tang (University of Melbourne)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford), Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford), Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford), Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford), Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford), Dr Chigusa Yamaura (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Ruoxi Liu (University of Oxford)

Friday 27 June 2025

Day 2: Oxford Transnational and Global History Conference 2025 - Global Empires: Transitions, Imaginations, and Contestations
Date: 27 June 2025, 9:00 - 18:45
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Rees Davies Room, and online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 1 July 2025

Open Scholarship: Logistics of open scholarship
Date: 1 July 2025, 10:00 - 11:30
Speaker : Sarah Humphries (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 7 July 2025

Open Scholarship: Forum of open scholarship
Date: 7 July 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 24 July 2025

Open Scholarship: Fundamentals of open access
Date: 24 July 2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker s: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), David Phillips (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
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