Thursday 21 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Turning the Tide: Government Action to Counter Ransomware
  Dr Roxana Radu (SNSF Postdoctoral Researcher)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 17:00 - God's Man in Iraq: The Life and Leadership of Grand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani
  Sajad Jiyad
  Book Talks
• 17:00 - Fighting misinformation on social media: the role of economic research
  Professor Sergei Guriev (Dean, London Business School)
  Oxford Martin School Events
• 17:00 - The Politics of Memory: The Reimagination of Medieval India
  Fouzia Farooq AhmedAzam (Oxford/Quaid-i- University, Islamabad), Professor Sarah Ansari (Royal Holloway, University of London), Nandini Chatterjee (Oxford), Moin Nizami (OxCIS)

Friday 22 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Turning the tide: public measures to counter ransomware
  Roxana Radu (Blavatnik School of Government)
• 14:00 - Language and Politics in the Sinophone World
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group
• 16:00 - Empires and everyday cultural coexistence: the Nineteenth century Ottoman Empire in comparative perspective
  Nicholas Doumanis (Illinois Chicago)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Writing Middle Eastern lives: biography in modern Arab history
  Professor Sonja Mejcher-Atassi (American University of Beirut), Professor Marilyn Booth (Magdalen College, Oxford), Dr Peter Hill (Northumbria University)
  Book Talks
• 17:00 - What Remains Invisible Still: Fukushima by Tsuchida Hiromi (2018) as the Formation of a Metaphor
  Dr Maki Fukuoka (University of Leeds)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Monday 25 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Technology and the Rise of Great Powers
  Dr Jeffrey Ding (George Washington University)
  China Centre talks

Tuesday 26 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Hate crime law as Meliorist Hope: Seeking justice for caste atrocities in Rajasthan
  Sandhya Fuchs (University of Bristol)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 14:15 - Trade Networks Bridging Yemen, Israel, and Ethiopia: The Ḥibshūsh Family and Jewish-Muslim Commercial Relations in the 20th Century
  Dr Menashe Anzi (Ben Gurion University)
  Israel Studies Seminar
• 16:00 - John Reed, Edgar Snow, Herbert Matthews, and the Question of Journalistic Truth
  Simon Hall (Leeds)
  American History Research Seminar
• 16:00 - The International Transmission of Democratic Values: Evidence from African Migration to Europe
  Marco Manacorda (Queen Mary University of London)
  Political Economy Seminar
• 16:00 - Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2024: Poverty amid conflict
  Professor Sabina Alkire (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 17:00 - The new politics of Poland
  To join online, please register with Zoom.
  Jarosław Kuisz (Kultura Liberalna), Eli Gateva (DPIR, Oxford)
  European Studies Seminar
• 17:00 - Global Security: Is law our last hope?
  Professor Janina Dill (University of Oxford)
• 17:15 - Saving Soviet Muslims: the politics of protection at Jerusalem's General Islamic Congress of 1931
  Dr Roy Bar Sadeh (University of Manchester)

Wednesday 27 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - The Present and Future of US Politics: Shifting Voter Allegiances
  Richard Johnson (Queen Mary, University of London)
  The Present and Future of US Politics
• 16:00 - Book launch | The Backstage of Democracy: India's Election Campaigns and the People who Manage Them
  Amogh Dhar Sharma (University of Oxford)
  ODID Special Lectures & Seminars
• 17:00 - Left Behind: A New Economics for Neglected Places
  Professor Sir Paul Collier (Blavatnik School of Government)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 28 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Jonathan Edwards and the Spiders: Tracing the Ecological in Early American Environmental Thought
  Sheila Byers (University of Oxford), Ethan Plaue (University of Oxford)
  American Literature Research Seminar
• 15:00 - AI Governance & U.S.-China Track II Diplomacy
  Kayla Blomquist (The Oxford Internet Institute), Elisabeth Siegel (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 16:00 - Locating Silences: The Status and Agency of Women in the Delhi Sultanate
  Fouzia Farooq AhmedAzam (Oxford/Quaid-i- University, Islamabad)

Friday 29 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - A Liberal Utopia III
  TBA
  Reading Rorty
• 12:00 - Bringing Criminological Imagination to China Studies
  Professor Jianhua Xu (University of Macau)
  China Centre talks
• 13:30 - Joint Workshop with the Department of Sociology: Dispute Resolution: Exploring Criminal, Informal, and Alternative Perspectives
  TBA
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
• 14:00 - KMT Authoritarianism and “Project National Glory”
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group
• 16:00 - Empire of Emptiness: Fortresses of the Colonial Conquest in the Sahara
  Berny Sèbe (Birmingham)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Gaza – a war on healthcare
  Professor Nick Maynard (University of Oxford), Dr Debbie Harrington (Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust), Dr Rebecca Inglis (University of Oxford)
  Friday Seminars

Monday 2 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:30 - Institutions affect preferences: The value of autonomy under liberal and authoritarian regimes
  Professor Samuel Bowles (Sante Fe Institute), Katrin Schmelz (Santa Fe institute)
  Political Economy Seminar

Tuesday 3 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Legalizing the Revolution: India and the Constitution of the Postcolony
  Sandipto Dasgupta (New School for Social Research, New York and Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 14:15 - 'Last child of the Risorgimento'? Zionism and the legacies of 1848”
  Professor Abigail Green
  Israel Studies Seminar
• 16:00 - Testimonies of Emotion: Enslaved People's Emotional Lives in the Antebellum US South
  Beth Wilson (Oxford)
  American History Research Seminar
• 16:00 - Unidimensional Underpinnings of Multidimensional Counting Measures
  Professor James Foster (GWU), Professor Sabina Alkire (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 17:00 - Russia’s war against Ukraine: Consequences for South East Europe
  IN COOPERATION WITH SEESOX AND THE UNIVERSITY CONSORTIUM, OXFORD
  Kyril Drezov (Keele University), Maxim Samorukov (Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center), Julie Newton (St Antony’s College, Oxford), Vuk Vuksanovic (Belgrade Centre for Security Policy)
  European Studies Seminar

Wednesday 4 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - An Outlook for US-China-Taiwan Relations under Trump 2.0
  Professor Lu Yeh-chung (National Chengchi University (NCCU),)
  China Centre talks
• 12:30 - The Present and Future of US Politics: Conservatism
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  Professor Desmond Kind (University of Oxford), Gillian Peele (University of Oxford)
  The Present and Future of US Politics
• 17:00 - Engaging with the Contemporary World: A Multi-Religious Perspective
  Professor Tomáš Halik (Charles University, Prague)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:15 - Violent Seas: Experience, Representation, and Technology of Naval Warfare, 1665–1783
  Sarah von Hagen (Göttingen)
  History of War Seminar Series
• 19:00 - Eric Kaufmann: Academic Freedom in an Age of Extremes
  As we anticipate a waitlist for this event, please ensure you register using the form below if you plan to attend: https://forms.gle/7weSkgJ4CXcT3dpL6
  Dr Eric Kaufmann (University of Buckingham)

Thursday 5 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Defining antisemitism: what is the point?
  Please note, this Friday Seminar will be taking place on *THURSDAY* for 8th Week.
  Professor Shai Lavi (Tel Aviv University), Dr Brian Klug (Oxford)
  Friday Seminars

Friday 6 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - Criticism and Conclusion
  TBA
  Reading Rorty
• 14:00 - The CCP at the Grassroots
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group
• 15:00 - Cyber Incidents, Ethics, and Armed Conflict
  After: OTSN Social (all welcome) Location The Oxford Retreat — Pub within short walk of Nuffield
  Brianna Rosen (Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 16:00 - The Statues of Robert Clive: The making and remaking of a supremacist icon
  Nandini Chatterjee (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Wednesday 11 December 2024 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 5 (#PhiDisSocCh5)
  This conference takes place online only.
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 21 January 2025 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Morale: A Revolutionary Idea?
  Krysten Blackstone (Salford)
  American History Research Seminar

Wednesday 22 January 2025 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Reckoning with Brexit five years on: what happens next?
  Professor Anand Menon (King’s College London), Paul Johnson (Institute for Fiscal Studies), Hannah White (Institute for Government)

Friday 24 January 2025 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Beyond Boundaries: Developing Indigenous Intellectual History
  Saliha Belmessous (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Tuesday 28 January 2025 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Anishinaabe Albion: Indigenous Diplomacy, Performance, and Resistance in the British Isles
  John Bird (Oxford)
  American History Research Seminar

Friday 31 January 2025 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Folksongs and Inclusion in Early Modernity: A Comparative Study
  Leigh Jenco (LSE)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Tuesday 4 February 2025 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - "Harlem Interdit": Paris-Match and European Uses of Harlem, c.1964-c.1975
  Andrew Fearnley (Manchester)
  American History Research Seminar

Friday 7 February 2025 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Circulation: Object memory, global exchange, and the first English embassy to India
  Nandini Das (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Tuesday 11 February 2025 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Glow Boys: Temporary Workers and the Making of Atomic Capitalism
  Tom Bishop (Lincoln)
  American History Research Seminar

Friday 14 February 2025 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Medicine for Ghosts: Visions, Possessions, and Medical Exchange in Early Modern Southeast Asia
  Tara Alberts (York)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Friday 21 February 2025 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - The global nature of Mughal Early Modernity
  Azfar Moin (Austin, Texas)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 24 February 2025 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:30 - Title TBC
  Moses Shayo (Hebrew University)
  Political Economy Seminar

Tuesday 25 February 2025 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Rediscovering James W.C. Pennington, Black Reformed Minister and Activist
  Jan Stievermann (Heidelberg)
  American History Research Seminar

Friday 28 February 2025 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Imperialism and Ethnology: The Ottoman Case
  Giancarlo Casale (EUI)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Tuesday 4 March 2025 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - The Cost of Sympathy: Perceptions of Suffering in the New York City Draft Riots
  Joanna Cohen (Queen Mary)
  American History Research Seminar

Monday 10 March 2025 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Tuesday 11 March 2025 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Black American leisure time 20th century
  Tiffany M Gill (Rutgers)
  American History Research Seminar

Tuesday 29 April 2025 (15th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:30 - Title TBC
  Nathan Nunn (University of British Columbia)
  Political Economy Seminar

Wednesday 14 May 2025 (17th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Monday 2 June 2025 (20th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:30 - Title TBC
  Rachel Kranton (Duke University)
  Political Economy Seminar

Monday 9 June 2025 (21st Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:30 - Title TBC
  Paola Giuliano (UCLA Anderson School of Management)
  Political Economy Seminar