Monday 29 April 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The United Nations and the Question of Palestine
  Change of venue: Now in the Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road (NOT MEC Boardroom at 68 Woodstock Road as originally planned) | Copies of Professor Imseis's book can be purchased direct from Cambridge University Press website, use IMSEIS23 at checkout for 20% discount.
  Dr Adri Imseis (Queen's University)
  MEC SEMINAR SERIES
• 17:30 - Oxford Political Review Issue 12 Launch Event: Utopia
  Duncan Bell (Cambridge)
• 18:00 - Growing older in Africa: Community-oriented evidence across the life course
  This is a hybrid event.
  Professor Alan Stein (University of Oxford), Kathleen Kahn (University of Witwatersrand Johannesburg), Steve Tollman (University of Witwatersrand Johannesburg)

Tuesday 30 April 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - "Politics and Persecution: Pashto, Pashtun and Pashtunistan" - Autobiography of Samad Khan Achakzai
  Ayaz Achakzai (Independent Public Policy Expert)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Special Lecture: Time to Get Ready: Resistance Through My Lens
  Maria Varela
• 17:00 - Unfulfilled Dreams: China’s 'Liberal' Communist Party Intellectuals’ Struggle for Democracy from the 1930s to the 2000s
  Dr Verna Yu (University of Oxford)
  China Centre talks
• 17:00 - Howard Covington on AI & Climate Change - Adrian Fernando Memorial Lecture
  Howard Covington (Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 1 May 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - How Can Regulation Revive China’s Sagging Economy?
  Professor Angela Zhang (University of Hong Kong)
  China Centre talks
• 15:00 - Oxford Technology & Security Nexus — China's AI Posture and Capabilities
  Sihao Huang (University of Oxford Department of Politics and International Relations)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 17:00 - Sufism in Al-Sanusi’s Theological Works
  Dr Tobias Andersson (Uppsala University)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:15 - Local Authority and Private Enterprise: Provisioning the Habsburg Army from the Seven Years War
  William Godsey (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 2 May 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - Book Launch: Tabernacles in the Wilderness: The US Christian Commission on the Civil War Battlefront
  Dr Rachel Williams (University of Hull)
• 14:00 - Transfer of Status Presentations
  Kenneth Wong, Natalie Martz
  Modern British History Seminar
• 16:15 - Loving Someone Whose Death Wouldn’t Matter
  Professor Elizabeth Harman (Princeton University)
  Annual Uehiro Lectures
• 17:00 - The Future of Work in the Age of AI
  Public panel event to welcome Daron Acemoglu as this year's Sanjaya Lall Visiting Professor of Business and Development at the University of Oxford
  Various Speakers

Friday 3 May 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Health, gender, and embodiment in the Punjabi Print sphere (1898-1948)
  Nikita Azad (University of Oxford)
  History of Gender Seminar
• 14:00 - Right-Wing Discourse in Online Chinese Spaces
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group
• 17:15 - Humanitarian Aid in Autocracies: the risk of Compromised Neutrality
  Inaugural Seminar for Dr Sauter as Levin Junior Research Fellow in Peace Studies at LMH, celebrating the first post in Peace Studies at Oxford. Followed by drinks.
  Dr Melanie Sauter (University of Oxford)
  OxPeace Events

Monday 6 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Evaluating Citizens' Assemblies: Facing challenges and exploring new perspectives
  IN ASSOCIATION WITH MAISON FRANÇAISE D'OXFORD
  Various Speakers
  European Studies Seminar

Tuesday 7 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Performing Sovereign Aspirations: Tamil Insurgency and Postwar Transition in Sri Lanka
  Bart Klem (Gothenburg University, Sweden)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Reflections on Tunisian Women’s Continued Fight for Respect, Dignity and Rights
  Dr Heba El-Shazli (George Mason University)
  MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars
• 18:00 - Kyoto Prize at Oxford 2024: Laureates Panel
  Please note this event takes place online only.
  Professor Ngaire Woods (Dean, Blavatnik School of Government), Dr Elliott H Lieb (Princeton University), Nalini Malani (Artist)

Wednesday 8 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Kyoto Prize at Oxford 2024: Dr Elliott H Lieb - My journey through physics and mathematics
  this is a hybrid event.
  Dr Elliott H Lieb (Princeton University), Professor Shivaji Sondhi (University of Oxford)
• 12:30 - Reconceptualising the EU-member states relationship in the age of permanent emergency
  Light lunch provided
  Stella Ladi (Queen Mary University of London), Paul Copeland (Queen Mary University of London), Georgios Kostakos (Foundation for Global Governance and Sustainability (FOGGS))
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
• 15:00 - Oxford Technology & Security Nexus - Taiwan's satellite production & geopolitics
  Yi-Ting Chang (University of Oxford, School of Geography and the Environment)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 15:00 - Kyoto Prize at Oxford 2024: Nalini Malani - My Reality is Different
  this is a hybrid event.
  Nalini Malani (Artist), Mallica Kumbera Landrus (Ashmolean)
• 17:00 - Book Launch: Merze Tate: The Global Odyssey of a Black Woman Scholar
  Registration Required!
  Professor Barbara Savage (University of Pennsylvania)
• 17:00 - Chinggis Khan’s Empire Restored? The Conquests of Tamerlane in a Mongol Perspective
  Professor Peter Jackson (Keele University)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:30 - Principal's Conversations: Con Coughlin
  Mr John Bowers KC (Principal, Brasenose College, Oxford), Con Coughlin

Thursday 9 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Transfer of Status Presentations
  Gabrielle Davies, Thomas Wang, Carys Howell
  Modern British History Seminar
• 16:15 - When Does Love Make a Baby?
  Professor Elizabeth Harman (Princeton University)
  Annual Uehiro Lectures
• 16:45 - ‘Black Internationalism's Politics of Land’
  Dr Christine Okoth (KCL)
  American Literature Research Seminar

Friday 10 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Collaboration during the Second Sino-Japanese War
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group

Monday 13 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - How to do public philosophy: a lunchtime workshop with Anastasia Berg
  TBA
• 15:15 - 'What Are Children For? On Ambivalence and Choice.' A symposium with Anastasia Berg (Hebrew University of Jerusalem). With comments from Tom Whyman (Liverpool), Maya Krishnan (All Souls), and Rachel Fraser (Oxford).
  Dr Anastasia Berg (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Dr Tom Whyman (University of Liverpool), Dr Maya Krishnan (University of Oxford), Dr Rachel Fraser (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 14 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - The nationalisation of rice. The postwar global crisis and the emergence of India’s national economy
  Jon Wilson (King's College London)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 15 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Made in China: When US-China Interests Converged to Transform Global Trade
  Dr Elizabeth Ingelson (LSE)
  China Centre talks
• 15:00 - Oxford Technology & Security Nexus — Political and Environmental Impact of AI Supply Chains
  Ana Valdivia (The Oxford Internet Institute)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 17:00 - Public Talk: Immigration Politics in an Age of Uncertainty
  Dr Terri Givens (McGill University), Professor Justin Gest (George Mason University), Professor Tim Bale (Queen Mary University), Professor Jason Casellas (University of Houston)
• 17:00 - Qaum, Mulk, Sultanat: Citizenship and National Belonging in Pakistan
  Ali Usman Qasmi (LUMS)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 16 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Transfer of Status Presentations
  Eleri Hedley Carter, Freya Willis
  Modern British History Seminar
• 17:30 - Rex Nettleford Lecture on Colonialism and its Legacies 2024
  Paul Gilroy

Friday 17 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:00 - CONFERENCE 'Franco-British relations and Europe, from membership of the EEC to Brexit. Around the Pompidou / Heath archives ’
  Under the High Patronage of Mr Emmanuel MACRON President of the French Republic The fiftieth anniversary of the death of the French President Georges Pompidou 1974-2024
  Various Speakers
  Maison Française d'Oxford Events
• 11:00 - Cohabitation, Prostitution and Procuring: Sex work as gendered labour in early modern Lyon, Seville and Mexico City
  Clare Burgess (University of Oxford)
  History of Gender Seminar
• 14:00 - Rural Reconstruction
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group

Saturday 18 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:00 - New Actors and the Changing Field of Peacemaking and Peacebuilding
  Various Speakers
  OxPeace Events

Monday 20 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Paradiplomacy in Hard Times: Cooperation and Confrontation in Subnational US-China Relations
  Professor Kyle Jaros (University of Notre Dame)
  China Centre talks

Tuesday 21 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - “We are religious, patriotic, and self-sacrificial”: Baniya Power, Privilege, and Wealth Anxieties in India
  Ujithra Ponniah (Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Esmond Harmsworth Lecture in American Arts and Letters with author Maggie Nelson
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  Maggie Nelson
• 17:00 - Sinologist, Traveller, Governor, Spy: The Lives and Legacies of Sir Cecil Clementi, 17th Governor of Hong Kong
  Graham Hutchings (University of Oxford, University of Nottingham)
  China Centre talks
• 17:00 - The fall of dictatorship in Spain, Portugal and Greece: 50 years on
  IN ASSOCIATION WITH SEESOX
  Charles Powell (Elcano Royal Institute), Harris Mylonas (George Washington University), Joao Carlos Espada (Catolica, Lisbon)
  European Studies Seminar

Wednesday 22 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Oxford Technology & Security Nexus — "Cloud empires’ physical footprint: How trade and security politics shape the global expansion of U.S. and Chinese data centre infrastructures"
  Please email elisabeth.siegel@politics.ox.ac.uk to be able to attend.
  Vili Lehdonvirta (Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford), Boxi Wu (Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 17:00 - Forced Migration on Film: A Conversation with Marc Isaacs
  Associate Professor Marc Isaacs (University College London)
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures
• 17:00 - Post-Globalism and the Ulama: Contestation of Authority
  Professor Raihan Ismail (St Antony's College)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 23 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - “My best friend used to look after me and push me round in my chair…but I don’t think really that was appropriate….” Physically disabled children and their sibling and peer carers in England, 1930-1970
  Samantha McCormack (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar
• 16:45 - ‘The Bookshop of Black Queer Diaspora: Lorraine Hansberry and the Multiplications of Insurgency’
  Prof. Rod Ferguson (Yale)
  American Literature Research Seminar

Friday 24 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Visualising masculine command: landscape views and picturing power in cardinals' 16th-century Roman villa gardens
  Ellen Sharman (University of Oxford)
  History of Gender Seminar
• 14:00 - Consumerism in China
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group

Tuesday 28 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Deconstructing State and Identity in Pakistan
  Various Speakers
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Economic Diversification and Climate Change in the Middle East
  Dr Sarah Bush (University of Pennslyvania)
  JOINT Middle East Politics & Women's Rights Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Dreaming of Europe: Work refugees and the migration crisis
  Randall Hansen (University of Toronto; Refugees Study Centre, Oxford), Catherine Briddick (St Antony's College, Oxford)
  European Studies Seminar

Wednesday 29 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - Fellow's Forum: Disanimality: When Disability, Illness, and Animality Meet
  Dr Michael Lundblad (University of Oslo)
• 17:00 - Migration: past, present and future
  Professor Ian Goldin (Director, Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Development)
  Oxford Martin School Events
• 17:00 - Smugglers and States: Negotiating the Maghreb at its Margins
  Dr Max Gallien (University of Sussex)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:15 - At the origins of raw materials diplomacy. Saltpeter trade in Renaissance Italy
  Fabrizio Ansani (Exeter)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 30 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - "God is an Equal Opportunities Employer - Pity about the Church": Humour and the Campaign for Women's Ordination in the Church of England, 1978-1994
  Grace Heaton (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar

Friday 31 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - The unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable: Siegfried Sassoon, Radclyffe Hall, equestrianism and early twentieth-century queer identities
  Dr Hannah Smith (University of Oxford)
  History of Gender Seminar
• 14:00 - Early Chinese Communism
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group
• 17:00 - Welfare chauvinism in Europe: The opposition towards social benefits and services for migrants
  Gianna Eick (University of Amsterdam)
  European Studies Seminar

Monday 3 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The Rise and Fall of Confederate Monuments: Memory and the American Civil War
  Professor Caroline Janney (University of Virginia)

Wednesday 5 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Oxford Technology & Security Nexus: Multilateral Institutions & AI governance
  Sam Daws (University of Oxford )
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 17:00 - The Fall of Kabul: Why It Happened and Why It Matters?
  Sir Laurie Bristow (Hughes Hall, Cambridge)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Friday 7 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - [Title TBC] History of Gender Seminar
  Dr Jack Doyle (Oxford)
  History of Gender Seminar
• 14:00 - Joint Session with the Oxford Taiwan Reading Group
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group

Wednesday 12 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Oxford Technology & Security Nexus — Space Policy, Data Centres on the Moon, and New Colonialism
  Yung Au (Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford University)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 17:00 - Iran’s Revolutionary Guards: A History
  Professor Maryam Alemzadeh (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:15 - Compulsion, Compliance and Combat: New Perspectives on Napoleonic Conscription
  Graeme Callister (York St Johns)
  History of War Seminar Series

Friday 14 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Challenging confinement: women and men in London’s ‘reformed’ prisons, 1780-1830
  Dr Kiran Mehta (University of Oxford)
  History of Gender Seminar
• 14:00 - Pub Social @ Gardeners Arms on North Parade
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group

Thursday 20 June 2024 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - China’s Military Rise: Two decades of catch up with the USA
  Professor Peter Robertson (University of Western Australia)
  China Centre talks

Monday 24 June 2024 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:00 - Oxford Data Academy
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 20 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - The Women Behind the Few: The Women's Auxiliary Air Force in British Air Intelligence During the Second World War
  Sarah-Louise Miller (Oxford)
  History of War Seminar Series