Friday 28 February 2025

• 08:30 - Symposium: Healthcare delivery in crisis? The Potential for Mutual Learning between Japan and the UK
  Various Speakers
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
• 16:00 - Imperialism and Ethnology: The Ottoman Case
  Giancarlo Casale (EUI)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:30 - Hostile | Film Screening plus Q&A with the Director, Sonita Gale
  Sonita Gale (Film maker)
  ODID Special Lectures & Seminars

Monday 3 March 2025

• 11:30 - Extreme Weather Events and the Support for Democracy
  Nicolas Cerkez (University of Oxford)
  Political Economy Seminar

Tuesday 4 March 2025

• 11:30 - The "Care" Series - Reading: '“They Would Plant the Rose Garden Themselves”: Femme, Complicity, Solidarity, and the Rewiring of the Sensuous’
  Please note change of venue
  Sneha Krishnan
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 14:00 - ‘Mao-Lana’ of Asia: Bhashani, Black Maoism, and Islamic Socialism in the 1960s
  Layli Uddin (Queen Mary University of London)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 16:00 - The Cost of Sympathy: Perceptions of Suffering in the New York City Draft Riots
  Joanna Cohen (Queen Mary)
  American History Research Seminar
• 16:10 - Multidimensional deprivation among Italian youth
  Elisabetta Segre (Italian Statistics Agency), Alessandra Tinto (Italian Statistics Agency)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 17:00 - Defining diversity in global higher education: To whom does it refer and why does it matter?
  Sonia Giebel (St Antony's College, Oxford), Dr David Johnson (University of Oxford, Dept of Education)
  European Studies Seminar
• 17:15 - Campion Lecture, Hilary Term 2025: ‘Stability, Security and Solidarity Stretched Thin: Reflections on “Social Cohesion” in Lebanon’
  Dr Cory Rodgers (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 5 March 2025

• 17:00 - How to Study Arabic and Islamic Philosophy? Once Again about al-Ghazali and Descartes
  Professor Frank Griffel (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:15 - The Politics of Immigration and the Politics of Identity | The Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture 2025
  Please use Octagon Gate entrance, located on Longwall Street side entrance to Magdalen College.
  Kenan Malik (Writer, lecturer and broadcaster)
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures
• 17:30 - Brasenose Women in the Media, Business and Finance
  Various Speakers
  Celebrating 50 Years of Women at Brasenose

Thursday 6 March 2025

• 11:45 - Queer history and art history: making and curating; a conversation with Leah DeVun, Gemma Rolls-Bentley, & Nancy Thebaut
  Leah deVun (Rutgers), Gemma Rolls-Bentley (Oxford), Nancy Thebaut (Oxford)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 12:00 - Creating Hope: open discussion with Palestinian and Israeli peace activists.
  Hamze Awawde, Magen Inon
  OxMEND (Oxford Middle Eastern Narratives and Discourse) - speaker events
• 15:00 - The Ethics of AI for Intelligence
  Dr Mariarosaria Taddeo (University of Oxford), Professor Mariarosaria Taddeo (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 17:15 - Can Dialogue Bridge Divides? ‘Talking Peace’ with Palestinian & Israeli Peace Activists
  All attendees must register in advance and agree to the terms and conditions of the event: www.worc.ox.ac.uk/fos/massada-2025
  Mira Awad, Hamze Awawde, Magen Inon
  Massada Public Seminars

Friday 7 March 2025

• 17:00 - Startup Capitalism: New Approaches to Innovation Strategies in East Asia
  Dr Robyn Klingler-Vidra (Associate Dean (Global Engagement) and Associate Professor in Entrepreneurship and Sustainability at King's Business School)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
• 18:00 - The Future of EU Enlargement
  Othon Anastasakis (St Antony's College, University of Oxford), Jacek Czaputowicz (Former Foreign Minister, Poland), Ditmir Bushati (Former Foreign Minister, Albania), Vuk Jeremić (Former Foreign Minister, Serbia)

Monday 10 March 2025

• 11:30 - Title TBC
  Nancy Qian (Northwestern University)
  Political Economy Seminar

Tuesday 11 March 2025

• 12:00 - From Click to Boom: The Political Economy of E-commerce in China
  Dr Lizhi Liu (Georgetown University)
  China Centre talks
• 14:00 - ‘Home’ in Sikh Polity: Understandings of mīrī pīrī in contemporary Britain
  Jaskiran Kaur Bhogal (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 16:00 - An Exceptional Identity: The Role of US History Education in (Re)Producing American Exceptionalism
  Emma Hall (University of Warwick)
  American History Research Seminar
• 16:10 - Using Machine Learning to Estimate Multidimensional Poverty
  Moumita Ghorai (UNDP HDRO), Heriberto Tapia (UNDP HDRO)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 17:00 - The End of Engagement: America's China Experts and US Strategy Since 1989
  Professor David M. McCourt (University of California Davis)
  China Centre talks
• 17:00 - Book talk: The Home I Worked to Make: Voices from the New Syrian Diaspora
  Jointly hosted with the Middle East Centre, St Antony's College
  Professor Wendy Pearlman (Northwestern University)
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures
• 17:00 - The transition away from fossil fuels in Europe: Geopolitical and practical implications
  Brendan Devlin (EU Visiting Fellow, St Antony’s College, Oxford), Anthony Calacino (Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford)
  European Studies Seminar

Wednesday 12 March 2025

• 17:00 - Reflections on the War in Sudan
  Dame Rosalind Marsden (RIIA)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - The second Trump Administration: Implications and expectations for South East Europe
  Daniel Dombey (Financial Times), Joan Hoey (Economist Intelligence Unit), Oana Lungescu (Royal United Services Institute (RUSI))
  European Studies Seminar
• 17:00 - Notions of emergency under democratic and dictatorial rule. Experiences from the 20th century
  Stefanie Middendorf (Jena)
  Modern European History Seminar

Thursday 13 March 2025

• 11:45 - Forced reproduction and the ‘value’ of enslaved women and girls in the antebellum US South, 1812-1865
  Aisha Djelid (RAI, Oxford)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 15:00 - Hacktivism? Predatory Sparrow and the Ambiguities of “Ethical” Cyber Operations
  After: Oxford Technology & Security Nexus End of Term Social
  Hannah Sophie-Weber (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus

Friday 14 March 2025

• 17:00 - Japan's Free and Open Indo-Pacific: From Vision to Reality
  Dr Eva Pejsova (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Monday 17 March 2025

• 11:30 - Relationships & Responsibility
  Laura Boudreau (Columbia Business School)
  Political Economy Seminar

Tuesday 29 April 2025

• 11:30 - Age Sets, Accountability, and the Balance of Power: Evidence from Villages in Rural Congo
  Nathan Nunn (University of British Columbia)
  Political Economy Seminar

Wednesday 7 May 2025

• 17:30 - Women and the Unions - Challenging Inequality
  Mr John Bowers KC (Principal, Brasenose College, Oxford)
  Celebrating 50 Years of Women at Brasenose

Tuesday 13 May 2025

• 14:00 - Afghanistan and the Concept of Asia: Intellectual Geographies in an Age of Reform
  Marya Hannun (University of Exeter)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 14 May 2025

• 11:30 - Title TBC
  Elias Papaioannou (London Business School)
  Political Economy Seminar

Monday 19 May 2025

• 11:30 - The Inclusion Trap: Evidence from Elite Civil Service in Pakistan
  Shaheen Naseer (University of Oxford)
  Political Economy Seminar

Tuesday 27 May 2025

• 14:00 - Designing with the Rohingya: Trauma, Resilience, Memory
  Professor Esther da Costa Meyer (Princeton University and Yale University)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 28 May 2025

• 17:30 - Principal's Conversation with The Guardian reporter, Amelia Gentleman
  Mr John Bowers KC (Principal, Brasenose College, Oxford)
  Celebrating 50 Years of Women at Brasenose

Monday 2 June 2025

• 11:30 - Competition, Cooperation, and Social Perceptions
  Rachel Kranton (Duke University)
  Political Economy Seminar

Tuesday 3 June 2025

• 14:00 - Ecologies of Caste and Waste: Dependence and Value Making at the Bhalswa Landfill in Delhi
  Aparna Agarwal (University of Lausanne)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Monday 9 June 2025

• 11:30 - Losing Their Religion: State Banning of Religion, Social Norms, and Female Participation
  Shqiponja Telhaj (University of Sussex)
  Political Economy Seminar

Monday 16 June 2025

• 11:30 - Narrative Entanglement: The Case of Climate Policy
  Luis Garicano (London School of Economics)
  Political Economy Seminar