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

Tuesday 4 February 2025

Unfair ID: Digital Identity from Injustice to Resistance
Date: 4 February 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Silvia Masiero (University of Oslo)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Darhendorf Room
Organiser: Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Rethinking Masculinity Through Men's Sexual Experiences in Tehran
Date: 4 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Nafiseh Sharifi (University of Exeter)
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)

Transforming the Way of Water: Yvonne Owuor’s The Dragonfly Sea and Zao Wou-Ki’s Paintings
Date: 4 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Shuangyi Li (University of Bristol)
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)

From Victimhood to Love: The political as a feminist question In Colombia
Date: 4 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: Dr Roxani Krystalli (University of St Andrews), Prof Leigh Payne (University of Oxford), Dr. Samuel Ritholtz (University of Oxford)
Venue: 1 Church Walk, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room, Latin American Centre
Organisers: Dr. Samuel Ritholtz (University of Oxford), Eduardo Posada-Carbó
Hosts: TBA

From Victimhood to Love: The political as a feminist question in Colombia
Date: 4 February 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker s: Dr Roxani Krystalli (University of St Andrews), Leigh Payne (St Antony's College, University of Oxford), Samuel Ritholtz (Oxford)
Venue: Latin American Centre Library, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room, Latin American Centre, 1 Church Walk, Oxford
Organiser: Eduardo Posada-Carbó
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 5 February 2025

Mirror of the Universe: The Evolution of the Astrolabe
Date: 5 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Taha Arslan (Istanbul Medeniyet University)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 6 February 2025

Open Scholarship: REF open access policy briefing
Date: 6 February 2025, 10:00 - 11:00
Speaker : Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Open Scholarship: Foundations of copyright for teaching
Date: 6 February 2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker s: Chris Morrison (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Researching Reconciliation and Repression in 1960s Kenya
Date: 6 February 2025, 15:30 - 17:30
Speaker : Niels Boender
Venue: St Antony's College - Main Site, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, accessed via lift
Organisers: Peter Brooke (African Studies Centre, Oxford), Lena Reim (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Discourses on Community in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
Date: 6 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: Gabriel Entin (Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina), Jorge Myers (Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina), Inés de Torres (Universidad de la República, Uruguay), André Jockyman Roithmann (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room, Latin American Centre, 1 Church Walk, Oxford, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

A Nosedive into Medieval China: Smells, Identities and the Writing of the Olfactory Past
Date: 6 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Flavia Xi Fang (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), Dr Xiaojing Miao (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)

Friday 7 February 2025

Circulation: Object memory, global exchange, and the first English embassy to India
Date: 7 February 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Nandini Das (Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Room TBC
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Axis of Resistance
Date: 7 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker s: Dr Kamran Matin (University of Sussex), Dr Amal Saad (Cardiff University), Yasmeen al-Eryani (Co-Executive Director, Sana’a Center for Strategic Studies)
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)

Balancing Commerce and Diplomacy: Japan's Strategy for Economic Security
Date: 7 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Christina Davis (Harvard University)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St Antony's College
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 11 February 2025

Open Scholarship: Fundamentals of open access
Date: 11 February 2025, 10:00 - 11:30
Speaker s: Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Beth Saward (Bodleian Libraries)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

The Art of State Persuasion: China's Strategic Use of Media in Interstate Disputes
Date: 11 February 2025, 12:00 - 13:15
Speaker : Dr Frances Yaping Wang (Colgate 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)

Threatening Dystopias: Development, Scientific Knowledge, and Adaptation to Climate Change
Date: 11 February 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Kasia Paprocki (The London School of Economics)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Darhendorf Room
Organiser: Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tribal Voting in New Democracies: Evidence from 6 Million Tunisian Voter Records
Date: 11 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Associate Professor Steven Brooke (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
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)

Navigating Narratives: Tsurayuki's Tosa Diary as History and Fiction
Date: 11 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker s: Professor Gustav Heldt (University of Virginia), Professor Sho Konishi (University of Oxford - History/OSGA), Dr Pan Tomé Valencia (University of Oxford - AMES)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St Antony's College
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: TBA

Botanical remediations: Farming, Plants and Contemporary Arts in Hong Kong
Date: 11 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Minna Valjakka (University of Helsinki)
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 12 February 2025

Global Diplomatic History
Date: 12 February 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Sujato Datta (Freie Universität Berlin), Jonathan Jackson (University of Cologne)
Organisers: Suchintan Das (Oxford), Sana Shah (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Open Scholarship: REF open access policy briefing
Date: 12 February 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker s: Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), David Watson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

ASEAN Institute Seminar Series: Community-Minded Communists: A Field Experiment on Party Member Propensity for Community Activism in Among Rural Vietnamese Women
Date: 12 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Quynh Nguyen (University of Bern)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Syndicate Room
Organiser: Professor Jacob Ricks (Singapore Management University)
Host: Professor Jacob Ricks (Singapore Management University)

Social, Cultural and Political Determinants of Riots
Date: 12 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Kamaldeep Bhui (University of Oxford)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 13 February 2025

Open scholarship: Playing in the open: Getting familiar with creative commons licences
Date: 13 February 2025, 10:00 - 11:30
Speaker s: Rachel Scanlon (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

“God Can’t Bless You If You Work for Someone Else”: Informality and Entrepreneurship in Urban Zambia
Date: 13 February 2025, 15:30 - 17:30
Speaker : Kristina Pikovskaia (University of Edinburgh)
Venue: St Antony's College - Main Site, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, accessed via lift
Organisers: Peter Brooke (African Studies Centre, Oxford), Lena Reim (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

A Peruvian History of the Old World: José Carlos Mariátegui and Europe
Date: 13 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Paulo Drinot (UCL)
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room, Latin American Centre, 1 Church Walk, Oxford, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Taiwan and its Southeast Asia Challenge
Date: 13 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Alex Tan (University of Canterbury)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre, Dickson Poon Building, University of Oxford China Centre
Organisers: Oxford Taiwan Studies Programme, Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Writing the Life of Author and Screenwriter Hanif Kureishi: Race, Class, and Multiculturalism
Date: 13 February 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Professor Ruvani Ranasinha (KCL)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Okinaga Room
Organisers: Pablo Mukherjee, Ankhi Mukherjee, Elleke Boehmer
Hosts: TBA

Friday 14 February 2025

Medicine for Ghosts: Visions, Possessions, and Medical Exchange in Early Modern Southeast Asia
Date: 14 February 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Tara Alberts (York)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Room TBC
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Israeli Public Opinion, War and Prospects for Peace
Date: 14 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Dahlia Scheindlin (Fellow, Century International & Columnist, Haaretz Newspaper)
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)

Searching for Zan: A More-Than-Human Ethnography of Extinction, Militarism, and Protest in Okinawa
Date: 14 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Marius Palz (Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St Antony's College
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: TBA

Monday 17 February 2025

Open scholarship: Forum of open scholarship
Date: 17 February 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 18 February 2025

Plantation Crisis: Ruptures of Dalit Life in the Indian Tea Belt
Date: 18 February 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Jayaseelan Raj (King's College London)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser: Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Genocide in Gaza
Date: 18 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Avi Shlaim (MEC Emeritus Fellow)
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)

Hilary Term Lecture 2025: Historical Justice under State Socialism
Date: 18 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Daniel Leese (University of Freiburg)
Venue: Merton College, Merton Street OX1 4JD
Venue Details: T S Eliot Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 19 February 2025

Pathways to Conflict in the South China Sea
Date: 19 February 2025, 12:00 - 13:15
Speaker : Professor David A. Welch (University of Waterloo)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Ho Tim Seminar Room (first floor)
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)

Transnational and Global History Workshop
Date: 19 February 2025, 14:00 - 18:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Organisers: Suchintan Das (Oxford), Sana Shah (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Economic Diversification, State Fragility, and Development in Muslim Societies
Date: 19 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Adnan Khan (FCDO)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 20 February 2025

Extractives-led Development and state-building in Botswana? A Historical Political Economy of Post-colonial Botswana’s Engagement with De Beers and Regional Geopolitical Insecurity
Date: 20 February 2025, 15:30 - 17:30
Speaker : Jorich Loubser
Venue: St Antony's College - Main Site, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, accessed via lift
Organisers: Peter Brooke (African Studies Centre, Oxford), Lena Reim (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Performing the Revolution. Politics and Theatre in Post-independent Argentina. 1810-1837
Date: 20 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Klaus Gallo (Universidad di Tella, Argentina)
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room, Latin American Centre, 1 Church Walk, Oxford, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Diaspora Chinese and Modern China: Transnationalism and Class of the Chinese of the British West Indies, the 1880s–1970s
Date: 20 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Setsuko Sonoda (Ritsumeikan University)
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), Dr Xiaojing Miao (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)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 21 February 2025

The global nature of Mughal Early Modernity
Date: 21 February 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Azfar Moin (Austin, Texas)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Room TBC
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The chaos (fawḍà) Bashshar al-Asad warned against – Damascus University 10th November 2005 – and present-day Syria
Date: 21 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Johannes Waardenburg (IULM)
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 Walter Armbrust (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

Mori Nao Divorces Her Samurai Husband and His Family Puts Him in a Cage
Date: 21 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Luke Roberts (UC Santa Barbara)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St Antony's College
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 25 February 2025

Between Nation and Community. Muslim Universities and Indian Politics after Partition (1947-1990s)
Date: 25 February 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Laurence Gautier (Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser: Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Open Scholarship: Your thesis, copyright and ORA
Date: 25 February 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker s: David Watson (Bodleian Libraries), Thomas Mitchell (Bodleian Libraries)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Women’s Religious Leadership in Morocco: A Catalyst for Mudawana Reform
Date: 25 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Sawsene Nejjar (OSGA, 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 26 February 2025

Mecca in Morocco: Studying the Socio-Cultural Embeddedness of Pilgrimage in Muslim Everyday Life
Date: 26 February 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Kholoud al-Ajarma (University of Edinburgh)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Open Scholarship: Introduction to Persistent Identifiers
Date: 26 February 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Neil Jefferies (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Transnational Left Solidarity
Date: 26 February 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Vladimir Bortun (University of Oxford), Mariana Steiner Farias (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul)
Organisers: Suchintan Das (Oxford), Sana Shah (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

ASEAN Institute Seminar Series: Transnational Impact of Chinese Propaganda on Intergroup Relations in Malaysia
Date: 26 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Jeremy Siow (University of Oxford)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Syndicate Room
Organiser: Professor Jacob Ricks (Singapore Management University)
Hosts: TBA

Coinage of Mughal South Asia and the Muslim Chain of Being
Date: 26 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Azfar Moin (University of Texas, Austin)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 27 February 2025

Open Scholarship: Copyright the card game
Date: 27 February 2025, 9:00 - 12:00
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

Doing research on, in and around state buildings in Africa: Reflections from Lesotho, Malawi and Zimbabwe
Date: 27 February 2025, 15:30 - 17:30
Speaker : Innocent Batsani-Ncube (University of London)
Venue: St Antony's College - Main Site, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, accessed via lift
Organisers: Peter Brooke (African Studies Centre, Oxford), Lena Reim (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Histories of Solitude and Perplexity: Colombia, 19th to 21st Centuries
Date: 27 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: Lina Britto (Northwestern University, USA), Ricardo López Pedrero (Western Washington University, USA), Ana María Otero-Claves (University of York, UK)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The US-China Conflict and a Divided Southeast Asia: Implications for Taiwan
Date: 27 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Thitinan Pongsudhirak (Chulalongkorn University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre, Dickson Poon Building, University of Oxford China Centre
Organisers: Oxford Taiwan Studies Programme, Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Attitudes Toward Normalization in a Conflict Context: Evidence from the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Date: 27 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Ibrahim Khatib (Doha Institute)
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: TBA

Friday 28 February 2025

Symposium: Healthcare delivery in crisis? The Potential for Mutual Learning between Japan and the UK
Date: 28 February 2025, 8:30 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: 27 Winchester Road, 27 Winchester Road OX2 6NA
Venue Details: Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: TBA

Imperialism and Ethnology: The Ottoman Case
Date: 28 February 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Giancarlo Casale (EUI)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Room TBC
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

*CANCELLED* Public opinion in Palestine since 7 October
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 28 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Khalil Shikaki (Director, Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research)
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 Walter Armbrust (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

Monday 3 March 2025

Open Scholarship: Fundamentals of open access
Date: 3 March 2025, 10:00 - 11:30
Speaker s: Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Beth Saward (Bodleian Libraries)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

OxFOS25 - The Innovation that Follows Open Scholarship: Examples from eLife and the Public Knowledge Project
Date: 3 March 2025, 13:00 - 14:30
Speaker s: John Willinsky (Stanford University), Godwyns Onwuchekwa (eLife Sciences)
Venue: Weston Library, Broad Street OX1 3BG
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

OxFOS25 - How To Start and Manage a Journal on the World’s Most Widely Used (Free) Journal Platform OJS
Date: 3 March 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : John Willinsky (Stanford University)
Venue: Weston Library, Broad Street OX1 3BG
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

OxFOS25 Keynote - As Open as Possible, As Permanent as Necessary: Towards the Sustainability of Openness
Date: 3 March 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker s: Professor Christopher Smith (AHRC), Richard Ovenden (Chair)
Venue: Weston Library, Broad Street OX1 3BG
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre, followed by a drinks reception in the Blackwell Hall
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 4 March 2025

Open Scholarship: Foundations of copyright for researchers
Date: 4 March 2025, 10:00 - 11:30
Speaker : Chris Morrison (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

OxFOS25 - Economics and Experiments in Open Access Publishing
Date: 4 March 2025, 13:00 - 14:30
Speaker s: Martin Paul Eve (Birkbeck, University of London), Dr Janneke Adema (Coventry University), Ronald Snijder (OAPEN)
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

‘Mao-Lana’ of Asia: Bhashani, Black Maoism, and Islamic Socialism in the 1960s
Date: 4 March 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Layli Uddin (Queen Mary University of London)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser: Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Smugglers and States: Negotiating the Maghreb at Its Margins
Date: 4 March 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Max Gallien (Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex)
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)

Anthropocene Urbanity and Surreal Imagery: Hong Kong in Contemporary Sinophone Fiction
Date: 4 March 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Xiaofan Amy Li (UCL)
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 5 March 2025

Open Scholarship: Open Monographs
Date: 5 March 2025, 10:30 - 11:30
Speaker s: Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), David Watson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

OxFOS25 - Research Data Management - Show & Tell
Date: 5 March 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker s: David Watson (University of Oxford), Neil Jefferies (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries), Damon Strange (Humanities, University of Oxford), Alexandra Rooney (University of Oxford), Peter Micklem (Research Support team, IT Services, University of Oxford), Dr Meriel Patrick (Research Support team, IT Services, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

How to Study Arabic and Islamic Philosophy? Once Again about al-Ghazali and Descartes
Date: 5 March 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Frank Griffel (University of Oxford)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Politics of Immigration and the Politics of Identity | The Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture 2025
Date: 5 March 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Kenan Malik (Writer, lecturer and broadcaster)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Grove Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 6 March 2025

Open Scholarship: ORCIDs from scratch
Date: 6 March 2025, 10:00 - 11:30
Speaker : Neil Jefferies (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

OxFOS25 - An introduction to Carpentries
Date: 6 March 2025, 13:00 - 14:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

'The Overthrow of Robert Mugabe: Gender, Coups, and Diplomats’ (Book Launch)
Date: 6 March 2025, 15:30 - 17:30
Speaker : Dr Miles Tendi (University of Oxford)
Venue: St Antony's College - Main Site, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, accessed via lift
Organisers: Peter Brooke (African Studies Centre, Oxford), Lena Reim (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

A Third Path: Corporatism in Brazil and Portugal
Date: 6 March 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Melissa Texeira (University of Pennsylvania)
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room, Latin American Centre, 1 Church Walk, Oxford, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Fanon Questions
Date: 6 March 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Robert Young (New York University)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Okinaga Room
Organisers: Pablo Mukherjee, Ankhi Mukherjee, Elleke Boehmer
Hosts: TBA

Friday 7 March 2025

OxFOS25 - Building open research communities
Date: 7 March 2025, 10:00 - 11:30
Speaker s: Professor Susanna-Assunta Sansone (University of Oxford, Chair), Anna Guttesen (WIN Open Science Ambassador), Charles Rahal (RROx, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

OxFOS 2025 - Redefining Scientific Publishing
Date: 7 March 2025, 13:00 - 14:30
Speaker s: Brian Nosek (Centre for Open Science), Alex Freeman (Octopus.ac), Allyson Lister (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

From Jihad to Politics: How Syrian Jihadis Embraced Politics
Date: 7 March 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Jerome Drevon (Senior Analyst, Crisis Group)
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)

Startup Capitalism: New Approaches to Innovation Strategies in East Asia
Date: 7 March 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Robyn Klingler-Vidra (Associate Dean (Global Engagement) and Associate Professor in Entrepreneurship and Sustainability at King's Business School)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St Antony's College
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: TBA

Monday 10 March 2025

OxFOS25 : How Research Security Matters for Participatory Science
Date: 10 March 2025, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker s: Paul Ayris (University College, London), Dr. Tiberius Ignat (SKS Knowledge Services)
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

OxFOS25: Research Practice - Responsible Knowledge Exchange, Engagement and Impact
Date: 10 March 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker s: Sarah Callaghan (Research Practice Group, University of Oxford), Dr Alis Oancea (Oxford University Department of Education)
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 11 March 2025

Open scholarship: Preregistration and registered reports: What, why, and how
Date: 11 March 2025, 10:00 - 11:30
Speaker : Jackie Thompson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

From Click to Boom: The Political Economy of E-commerce in China
Date: 11 March 2025, 12:00 - 13:15
Speaker : Dr Lizhi Liu (Georgetown 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)

‘Home’ in Sikh Polity: Understandings of mīrī pīrī in contemporary Britain
Date: 11 March 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Jaskiran Kaur Bhogal (University of Oxford)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser: Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

OxFOS25: Open Knowledge Infrastructure
Date: 11 March 2025, 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker s: Wolfram Horstman (Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure “FIZ Karlsruhe” (Germany)), Caroline Edwards
Venue: Weston Library, Broad Street OX1 3BG
Venue Details: Lecture theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Understanding Syria through Syrian Voices: Refugees’ Stories of Revolution, War, and the Struggle for Home
Date: 11 March 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Wendy Pearlman (Northwestern 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 Dawn Chatty (University of Oxford)

The End of Engagement: America's China Experts and US Strategy Since 1989
Date: 11 March 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor David M. McCourt (University of California Davis)
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)

Book talk: The Home I Worked to Make: Voices from the New Syrian Diaspora
Date: 11 March 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Wendy Pearlman (Northwestern University)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

OxFOS25: Lightning Talks
Date: 11 March 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Weston Library, Broad Street OX1 3BG
Venue Details: Lecture theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 12 March 2025

OxFOS25: Past and Present of Open
Date: 12 March 2025, 10:30 - 12:30
Speaker s: Sally Rumsey, Beth Montague-Hellen (Francis Crick Institute), Jenni Adams (University of Sheffield), Ric Campbell
Venue: Weston Library, Broad Street OX1 3BG
Venue Details: Lecture theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

OxFOS25 Reproducible Research Oxford lunch
Date: 12 March 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : The RROx team
Venue: Weston Library, Broad Street OX1 3BG
Venue Details: Blackwell Hall
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

OxFOS25 The Future of Open
Date: 12 March 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Speaker
Venue: Weston Library, Broad Street OX1 3BG
Venue Details: Lecture Hall
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Imperial & Transnational Histories of War
Date: 12 March 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Jake Gasson (King's College London), Salvador Lima (European University Institute)
Organisers: Suchintan Das (Oxford), Sana Shah (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

OxFOS25 Would I lie to you?
Date: 12 March 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Speaker s: Patricia Logullo, Marc Brouard, Mae Chester-Jones, Gaurav Bhalerao, Charles Rahal (RROx, University of Oxford)
Venue: Weston Library, Broad Street OX1 3BG
Venue Details: Lecture Hall
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

ASEAN Institute Seminar Series: Buddhism, nationalism, and authoritarianism: Findings from a 2023 post-election survey of Thai voters
Date: 12 March 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Tomas Larsson (University of Cambridge)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Syndicate Room
Organiser: Professor Jacob Ricks (Singapore Management University)
Hosts: TBA

Reflections on the War in Sudan
Date: 12 March 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dame Rosalind Marsden (RIIA)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

OxFOS25 Posters and Wine
Date: 12 March 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Weston Library, Broad Street OX1 3BG
Venue Details: Lecture Hall
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 13 March 2025

OxFOS25 Peer Reviewing Peer Review
Date: 13 March 2025, 10:00 - 11:30
Speaker : Nick De Vito (Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences)
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

OxFOS25 The Future of Open Publication: the publishers’ view
Date: 13 March 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker s: Alessio Bolognesi, Rebecca Lawrence
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: TBA
Host: Sarah Callaghan

Open Scholarship: Introduction to Open Science Framework at Oxford
Date: 13 March 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Neil Jefferies (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Forging Global Black Identities: Pan-African Consciousness and the Transnational Lives of Second-Generation Africans in the UK
Date: 13 March 2025, 15:30 - 17:30
Speaker : Mikal Woldu (SOAS)
Venue: St Antony's College - Main Site, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, accessed via lift
Organisers: Peter Brooke (African Studies Centre, Oxford), Lena Reim (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Longing for Revolution: Women's Militancia and Post-Militancia in the Peruvian Revolutionary Left - 1960-2000
Date: 13 March 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Mercedes Crisóstomo (UCL)
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room, Latin American Centre, 1 Church Walk, Oxford, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 14 March 2025

Do we really owe Arabs nothing?
Date: 14 March 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Fouad Laroui (Professor of epistemology and writer)
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)

Japan's Free and Open Indo-Pacific: From Vision to Reality
Date: 14 March 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Eva Pejsova (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St Antony's College
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 27 March 2025

Open Scholarship: Logistics of open scholarship
Date: 27 March 2025, 10:00 - 11:30
Speaker s: Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Beth Saward (Bodleian Libraries)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 10 April 2025

Open Scholarship: Fundamentals of open access
Date: 10 April 2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker s: Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Beth Saward (Bodleian Libraries), Polly Bannister (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 29 May 2025

Open scholarship: Playing in the open: Getting familiar with creative commons licences
Date: 29 May 2025, 10:00 - 11:30
Speaker s: Rachel Scanlon (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

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