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

Monday 19 January 2025

BOOK TALK: Israel: What Went Wrong?
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 19 January 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Omer Bartov (Brown University)
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 Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 20 January 2025

BOOK TALK: The Fixer: A Journalist’s Accidental Journey through the Middle East
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 20 January 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Amjad M. Tadros (Author)
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 Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

Thursday 22 January 2025

FILM SCREENING: COMPLICIT - How the West is Helping Israel Seize the West Bank
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 22 January 2026, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Richard Sanders (Producer)
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)

Saturday 24 January 2025

Remembering Bona Malwal and his Achievements in Sudan and South Sudan
Date: 24 January 2026, 10:00 - 18:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Dr Ahmed Al-Shahi (The Sudanese Programme)
Host: Dr Ahmed Al-Shahi (The Sudanese Programme)

Tuesday 27 January 2025

The Materiality of Cyber Commercial Sigheh: An Introduction to A Post-Paradigmatic Sex Market in Iran
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 27 January 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Minoo Sadat (University of Bristol)
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)

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

The Construction of Masculinities in Popular Iranian Cinema of the 1990s
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 29 January 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Nacim Pak Shiraz (University of Edinburgh)
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: Dr Maryam Alemzadeh (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 3 February 2025

BOOK TALK: Twelve Years Away from Constantinople, 1896 – 1908 (My Memoirs) by Yervant Odian
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 3 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Nanor Kebranian (Vienna)
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 Laurent Mignon (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

Thursday 5 February 2025

Saudi Arabia and the Global Trajectory of Islamic Law
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 5 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Dominik Krell (CSLS)
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 Pascal Menoret (Magdalen College)

Tuesday 10 February 2025

BOOK TALK: A History of Modern Syria
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 10 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Daniel Neep (Brandeis University)
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 Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

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

BOOK TALK: Kingdom of Football: Saudi Arabia and the Remaking of World Soccer
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 12 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Kristian Coates Ulrichsen (Rice 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 Raihan Ismail (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 17 February 2025

The Role of UNRWA Historical Refugee Registration Records in Documenting the Demographic Reality of the Nakba
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 17 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Valeria Cetorelli
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 Neil Ketchley (University of Oxford)

Thursday 19 February 2025

BOOK TALK: Order and Region Making in the Middle East
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 19 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Simon Mabon (Lancaster 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 Raihan Ismail (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 24 February 2025

BOOK TALK: Fire in Every Direction
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 24 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Tareq Baconi (Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network)
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)
Hosts: Dr Ammar Azzouz (Somerville College, University of Oxford), Professor Raihan Ismail (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

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

FILM SCREENING: The Conspiracy: Assassination in Beirut
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 26 February 2026, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker s: Dan Clifton (Independent Writer/Director), Michael Taylor (Independent Investigations/Police Consultant)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford), Middle East Centre
Host: Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 3 March 2025

BOOK TALK: Contemporary Islamist Opposition in Morocco: Resisting Inclusion and Moderation
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
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)

Thursday 5 March 2025

A keynote conversation with Saeb Eigner about 'Artists of the Middle East. 1900 to Now.'
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
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)

Tuesday 10 March 2025

An Autocratic Middle Class? State Dependency and Protest in the Middle East and North Africa
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
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)

Title TBC
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

Decolonizing Security Studies - a North African perspective
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 12 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr 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)

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