Talks of interest to the Department of Politics and International Relations
Talks:

Tuesday 14 October 2025

Souls in the Kalyug: The Politics and Cosmologies of Migrant Workers in Contemporary India
Date: 14 October 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Shankar Ramaswami (O. P. Jindal Global University)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Dahrendorf Room
Organiser: Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Sacred Places Tell Tales: Jewish Life and Heritage in Modern Cairo
Date: 14 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Yoram Meital (Ben-Gurion University)
Venue: 68 Woodstock Road, 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)

Ukraine and beyond: Shaping Europe’s security future
Date: 14 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker s: Olya Oliker (International Crisis Group), James O'Brien (Institute for Human Sciences)
Venue: St Antony's College - North Site,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
Organiser: Julie Adams (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Dimitar Bechev (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 15 October 2025

Xi Jinping has preserved his position but can he revive reform?
Date: 15 October 2025, 12:00 - 13:15
Speaker : Dr Willy Lam (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
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)

Trump 2.0 and America’s Role in the World
Date: 15 October 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Peter Feaver (Duke University)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Downstairs Seminar Room. Our lift is currently out of order and the room is accessed via a flight of stairs
Organiser: Daniel Rowe (Oxford)
Host: Rothermere American Institute

Rediscovering Mughal archives: documents from temples in northern India
Date: 15 October 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Nandini Chatterjee (Oxford)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 16 October 2025

Scandals, Secrets and News: How Manuscripts Reshape Our Knowledge of Edo Culture
Date: 16 October 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Professor Peter Kornicki (University of Cambridge)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor Gateway Building
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: Professor Kristi Govella (University of Oxford), Professor Hugh Whittaker (University of Oxford)

Friday 17 October 2025

The Strategic Foundations of International Economic Order: China, Bretton Woods, and the Cold War
Date: 17 October 2025, 12:00 - 13:15
Speaker : Professor Amy King (Australian National 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)
Hosts: TBA

Republic and Empire: Crisis, Revolution, and America’s Early Independence
Date: 17 October 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Andrew O'Shaughnessy (University of Virginia)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Downstairs Seminar Room. Our lift is currently out of order and is accessed by a flight of stairs
Organiser: Daniel Rowe (Oxford)
Host: Daniel Rowe (Oxford)

Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed - Week One: The Wall
Date: 17 October 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Sophie Cardin (University of Oxford)
Host: Sophie Cardin (University of Oxford)

Oxford Conservative Thought Reading Group, Week 1: Against Change?
Date: 17 October 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
Venue: Green Templeton College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HG
Venue Details: Meeting Room 1
Organiser: Jacob Williams (University of Oxford)
Host: Jacob Williams (University of Oxford)

Translated Scholarship and Japanese Universities: How Have Translations of Western Scholarship into Japanese Affected and Biased Japanese Academia?
Date: 17 October 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Professor Takehiko Kariya (University of Oxford)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Syndicate Room, Old Main Building
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: Professor Kristi Govella (University of Oxford), Professor Hugh Whittaker (University of Oxford)

LGBTQ+ History Network Welcome Social
Date: 17 October 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Social
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 20.400 History Common Room, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 21 October 2025

From redress to reimagining: a decolonial lens on justice for women war survivors in Sri Lanka
Date: 21 October 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Dr Farah Milhar (Oxford Brookes University)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser: Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Autocracy 2.0: How China's Rise Reinvented Tyranny
Date: 21 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Jennifer Lind (Dartmouth)
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)
Hosts: TBA

Shifting support: Western states, the UN, and local perceptions in conflict zones
Date: 21 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker : Stefano Costalli (University of Florence)
Venue: St Antony's College - North Site,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
Organiser: Julie Adams (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Federica Genovese (St Antony’s College, Oxford)

Wednesday 22 October 2025

LGBTQ+ History Network and WGQ Reading Group
Date: 22 October 2025, 16:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Reading Group
Venue Details: Gardeners Arms Pub, Plantation Road, Oxford OX2 6JE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Walter Lippmann: An Intellectual Biography
Date: 22 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Tom Arnold-Forster (Oxford)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Downstairs Seminar Room. Our lift is currently out of order and the room is accessed via a flight of stairs
Organiser: Daniel Rowe (Oxford)
Host: Rothermere American Institute

Reviving Arab governance through structural policy reform
Date: 22 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Mr Raed Charafeddine (Former First Vice Governor of the Central Bank of Lebanon)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Military entrepreneurs, foreign soldiers, and Sweden’s wars of emergence 1560–1630
Date: 22 October 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Jaakko Björklund (Helsinki)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 23 October 2025

What' s happening in the United States? Historians ' Reflections
Date: 23 October 2025, 16:30 - 17:45
Speaker s: Professor Anthea Butler (University of Pennsylvania, and Oxford's Koch Centre), Professor Colin Johnson (Indiana University), In converstion with Professor Sarah Knott (Oxford)
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: Larkin Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Regional Financial Arrangements in East Asia
Date: 23 October 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Dr Yoichi Nemoto (Hitotsubashi University)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor Gateway Building
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: Professor Kristi Govella (University of Oxford), Professor Hugh Whittaker (University of Oxford)

Friday 24 October 2025

"The traitor and agent Tshombe is in the hands of the Algerian revolution": 1960s plane hijackings between global anti-imperialism and international law
Date: 24 October 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Natalya Vince (Oxford)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed - Week Two: Origins, Omelas, Odo
Date: 24 October 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Lecture Room VII
Organiser: Sophie Cardin (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 27 October 2025

Compassion at the Crossroads: Ethics, Emotion & Human Care
Date: 27 October 2025, 17:15 - 19:00
Speaker : Professor Daniel Sperling (University of Haifa)
Venue: Worcester College, Walton Street OX1 2HB
Venue Details: Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre
Organiser: Dr Naomi Rokotnitz (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 28 October 2025

Beyond the Mountains: Social and Political Imaginaries in Gilgit-Baltistan
Date: 28 October 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Dr Nosheen Ali (NYU)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser: Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Britain, Détente, and the Helsinki CSCE: 'Fathers of the Final Act’
Date: 28 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker s: Kai Hebel (Leiden University), Paul Betts (St Antony's College, University of Oxford), Timothy Garton Ash (St Antony's College)
Venue: St Antony's College - North Site,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
Organiser: Julie Adams (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Anne Deighton (Wolfson College, Oxford)

Wednesday 29 October 2025

The Southern Tour: Deng Xiaoping and the Fight for China’s Future
Date: 29 October 2025, 12:00 - 13:15
Speaker : Dr Jonathan Chatwin
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)

Capitalizing on College: How Higher Education Went from Mission Driven to Margin Obsessed
Date: 29 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Joshua Travis Brown (John Hopkins)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Daniel Rowe (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

What makes Qumm special in the architecture of 14th-century Iran?
Date: 29 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Robert Hillenbrand (Edinburgh)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 30 October 2025

Culture Must Be Defended: Japanese Conservatism and International Relations
Date: 30 October 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Dr Karin Narita (University of Sheffield)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor Gateway Building
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: Professor Kristi Govella (University of Oxford), Professor Hugh Whittaker (University of Oxford)

Friday 31 October 2025

Anti-apartheid in the international imagination: Capitalism, Socialism, Liberalism
Date: 31 October 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Saul Dubow (Cambridge)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed - Week Three: Construction
Date: 31 October 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Sophie Cardin (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 4 November 2025

Making India Work: The Development of Welfare in a Multi-level Democracy
Date: 4 November 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Dr Louise Tillin (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

The legislative politics of climate change mitigation: Evidence from the European Parliament
Date: 4 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker : Mihail Chiru (St Antony’s College, Oxford)
Venue: St Antony's College - North Site,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
Organiser: Julie Adams (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Othon Anastasakis (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 5 November 2025

Memoirs of a Confucius Institute Director: Challenges, Controversies, and Realities
Date: 5 November 2025, 12:00 - 13:15
Speaker : Professor Jinghan Zeng (City University of Hong Kong)
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)

Girlhood in the Contemporary American Novel: Coming-of-Age 1990-2020
Date: 5 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Angelica de Vido (New York Historical Society)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Downstairs Seminar Room. Our lift is currently out of order and the room is accessed via a flight of stairs
Organiser: Daniel Rowe (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Early-modern orientalism and the recreation of the Islamic canon: from collections to catalogues
Date: 5 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Claire Gallien (Tubingen)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

A minor power in a total war: Sweden’s system of military procurement during the campaigns against Napoleon, 1805-1807 and 1813-1814
Date: 5 November 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Patrik Winton (Örebro)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 6 November 2025

Set My Heart Bonfire? (Dis)embodiment in Japanese Fiction and Literary Translation
Date: 6 November 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Helen O’Horan
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor Gateway Building
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: Professor Kristi Govella (University of Oxford), Professor Hugh Whittaker (University of Oxford)

Friday 7 November 2025

Daring To Be Free: Enslaved Resistance in the Atlantic World
Date: 7 November 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Sudhir Hazareesingh (Oxford)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed - Week Four: Time
Date: 7 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Sophie Cardin (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 11 November 2025

Forms of the Left for the 21st Century: Contemporary Art, Digital Media, and Repressive Politics in Bangladesh
Date: 11 November 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Lotte Hoek (University of Edinburgh)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser: Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

From two-party rule to polarization: Ten years of Spanish politics
Date: 11 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker : Sandra Leon Alfonso (St Antony’s College, Oxford)
Venue: St Antony's College - North Site,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
Organiser: Julie Adams (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Othon Anastasakis (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 12 November 2025

The Once and Future World Order: Why Global Civilization Will Survive the Decline of the West
Date: 12 November 2025, 12:00 - 13:15
Speaker : Professor Amitav Acharya (The American 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)

Revolts as rituals of political communication in ‘Abbāsid Baghdad (908-991)
Date: 12 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Fanny Bessard (Trinity)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 13 November 2025

Words That Move: Emotions in Abe Shinzō’s Foreign Policy Rhetoric
Date: 13 November 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Professor Raymond Yamamoto (Aarhus University)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Syndicate Room, Old Main Building
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: Professor Kristi Govella (University of Oxford), Professor Hugh Whittaker (University of Oxford)

Belonging in exile: How to write an almost global history of the German-Jewish diaspora
Date: 13 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker : Miriam Rürup (Richard von Weizsäcker Visiting Fellow, St Antony’s College, Oxford)
Venue: St Antony's College - North Site,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
Organiser: Julie Adams (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Paul Betts (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

Friday 14 November 2025

The Oppressed Assemble: Socialist Anti-Colonialism and the Promise of Post-Imperial Modernity
Date: 14 November 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Zaib un Nisa Aziz (Cambridge)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed - Week Five: Revolution
Date: 14 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Sophie Cardin (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 18 November 2025

Post colonial capital – a genealogy
Date: 18 November 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Professor Barbara Harriss-White ((Emeritus Professor of Development Studies, Oxford))
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser: Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Law Unbound? Asylum and migration law in the UK post-Brexit
Date: 18 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker s: Catherine Barnard (Trinity College, Cambridge), Cathryn Costello (University College Dublin)
Venue: St Antony's College - North Site,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
Organiser: Julie Adams (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Catherine Briddick (St Antony's College, Oxford)

Wednesday 19 November 2025

Art in the Age of the Maxim Gun: The South African War (1899-1902) and the British Illustrated Press
Date: 19 November 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Sean Wilcox (Oxford)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 20 November 2025

Surnames, Same Sex Marriage, and the Interesting Evolution of Constitutional Litigation in Japan
Date: 20 November 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Professor Colin P.A. Jones (Doshisha Law School)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor Gateway Building
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: Professor Kristi Govella (University of Oxford), Professor Hugh Whittaker (University of Oxford)

Friday 21 November 2025

Civil Wars and the End of the Cold War: Hypotheses for Global History
Date: 21 November 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Jeremy Adelman (Princeton & Cambridge)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed - Week Six: The University
Date: 21 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Sophie Cardin (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 24 November 2025

Roundtable - The Safe Repository: Sex, Gender and Reproduction at the Kinsey Institute
Date: 24 November 2025, 10:30 - 11:30
Speaker s: Rebecca Fasman (Curator), Professor Justin Garcia (Director), Liana Zhou (Librarian), Professor Matt Cook (Oxford), Professor Sarah Knott (Oxford)
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: Auditorium
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Professor Sarah Knott's Inaugural Lecture: Why a History of Care?
Date: 24 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Sarah Knott (Oxford)
Venue: Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 25 November 2025

Roundtable: The Politics of Care
Date: 25 November 2025, 10:30 - 11:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: Auditorium
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Uncertain State: Uncertainty as everyday experience and mode of governmentality in contemporary India
Date: 25 November 2025, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Geert de Neve (University of Sussex)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organisers: Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford), Prof Nandini Gooptu (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Democratic resistance to illiberalism in Hungary and Serbia
Date: 25 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker s: Zoltán Ádám (Centre for Social Sciences, Budapest), Eric Gordy (University College London), Jessie Barton Hronešová (University College London)
Venue: St Antony's College - North Site,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
Organiser: Julie Adams (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Othon Anastasakis (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 26 November 2025

John Williams: A Composer's Life
Date: 26 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Tim Grieving (University of Southern California)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Downstairs Seminar Room. Our lift is currently out of order and the room is accessed via a flight of stairs
Organiser: Daniel Rowe (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Waning crescent: The rise and fall of global Islam
Date: 26 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Faisal Devji (University of Oxford)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 27 November 2025

How Firms, Bureaucrats, and Ministries Benefit from the Revolving Door: Evidence from Japan
Date: 27 November 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Professor Trevor Incerti (University of Amsterdam)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor Gateway Building
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: Professor Kristi Govella (University of Oxford), Professor Hugh Whittaker (University of Oxford)

Friday 28 November 2025

Art and Decolonial Love: Visualizing Just Futures in the Chicanx Civil Rights Movement
Date: 28 November 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Charlene Villaseñor Black (Oxford)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed - Week Seven: Unbuilding Walls
Date: 28 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Platnauer Room
Organiser: Sophie Cardin (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 2 December 2025

Strange Fruit in Comparative Perspective
Date: 2 December 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Dr Adnan Naseemullah (Kings College London)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser: Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Backlash against green energy infrastructure: Survey experimental evidence from France, Germany, Norway, and the UK
Date: 2 December 2025, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker : Patrick Bayer (University of Glasgow)
Venue: St Antony's College - North Site,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
Organiser: Julie Adams (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Federica Genovese (St Antony’s College, Oxford)

Wednesday 3 December 2025

The role of media in a changing world
Date: 3 December 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Mr Nic Robertson (CNN International)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The loyalties of professionals: Black soldiers in the Rhodesian army, 1963-1981
Date: 3 December 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Marc Howard (Independent Scholar)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 4 December 2025

Dead Letters: Reuse, Recycling, and Emotions in Japanese Buddhist Manuscripts
Date: 4 December 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Dr Halle O’Neal (University of Edinburgh)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor Gateway Building
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: Professor Kristi Govella (University of Oxford), Professor Hugh Whittaker (University of Oxford)

Friday 5 December 2025

The Americas in Catholicism’s Global Cold War
Date: 5 December 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Daniel McDonald (Oxford)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed - Week Eight: Resistance
Date: 5 December 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Sophie Cardin (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

This list contains talks from the following series:
2019- Grand Challenges in Science
2022 Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics
African History & Politics Seminars
Africans and war in Vietnam: global protest, liberation politics and transnational soldiers
African Studies Seminar Series
American History Research Seminar
American Politics Graduate Seminar
Annual Uehiro Lectures
Archive: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series
ASEAN Institute Seminar Series 2024
Aspects of Conservatism
Bingham Seminars in Constitutional Studies
Blavatnik School of Government Research Seminars Hilary Term 2017
Bonavero Discussion Group
Bonavero Panel Series on the Past and Present of Slavery
Carlyle Lectures in the History of Political Thought 2024: Clarendon and the Practice of Politics
Celebrating 50 Years of Women at Brasenose
Centre for Gender, Identity and Subjectivity Discussion Group (formerly Reading Group)
Centre for Women’s, Gender, and Queer History events (WGQ) [formerly known as CGIS].
Changing Character of War
Changing Character of Warfare: Tuesday Lunchtime Seminars
China Centre talks
COMPAS seminar series: Beyond Impact? Using, Exchanging, and Communicating Migration Knowledge and Research
Contemporary Islamic Studies Programme
Contemporary South Asia Seminars
Contestations in Land and Agriculture: Historical and Geopolitical Case-Studies
Critical and Decolonial Approaches to “Religion” - Interdisciplinary Research Seminars
Dahrendorf Programme
Economics Research Jamboree
‘Encyclopédie Nouvelle’ Seminar
Endangered Tribal Languages in India
Environmental Change Institute
ESC Core Seminar Series
ESC Visiting Academics Lunchtime Seminar Series Hilary Term 2019
Europaeum: Before War, After War
European Studies Seminar
Future of the Left Seminar Series
Gender, Women and Culture
Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series
Governance of AI Seminar Series
Governance of AI Seminar Series
Health: fresh perspectives
History of Gender Seminar
History of War Seminar Series
Human Dignity and Bureaucracy Seminars
Inequality
Institutions: Understanding and Evaluating Them
Interdisciplinary Seminars on Empire
Israel Studies Seminar Michaelmas Term 2020
JOINT Middle East Politics & Women's Rights Research Seminar
Kyoto Prize at Oxford
Massada Fellowship Programme seminars
Massada Public Seminars
MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars
Media and Migration
Methods and Work in Progress Seminar in Practical and Medical Ethics
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Middle East Centre Seminar Series
Middle East Centre Tuesday Book Launch (Book Talk)
Modern History Research Seminar
Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
Modern South Asia Seminar
Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
OxCGRT Seminar Series
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
Oxford China Reading Group
Oxford Conservative Thought Reading Group
Oxford Martin School Lecture Series: Shaping the future
Oxford Martin School Series: Levelling-up regional disparities, inequality and social inclusion
Oxford Martin School Series: Post COP26: successes, lessons learnt & what do we need to do now?
Oxford Martin School & Smith School Online Series: The economics of biodiversity
Oxford Minds from the Social Sciences Division
Oxford Political Review
Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
Oxford Transnational and Global History Seminar
Oxford University Economics Summer Schools
Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar
Oxford Women in Research (OxWiR) Seminar Series HT 2019
OxonCourts
Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM)
Political Economy of Financial Markets Programme
Politics Scriptorium
PPE Centenary Professorship Lectures
Providing Health and Social Care for an Ageing Population: Challenges and Responses
Reading Rorty
Reconsidering Early Jewish Nationalist Ideologies Michaelmas term 2020
Re-Engaging Truth Seminar Series
Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures
Rethinking the Contemporary: The World since the Cold War
Rothermere American Institute Events
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
Science and populism: from evidence to narrative (Oxford Martin School, Oxford Institute of Population Ageing and University College Joint Series)
South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
St Hilda's College Feminist Salon
Sustainable Pasts and Resilient Futures Workshop
Technology and Mobilities in Africa
The D'Arcy Lectures 2021: Common Good: Theological, Philosophical, Political Aspects
The James Ford Lectures 2017 - Family and Empire: Kinship and British Colonialism in the East India Company Era, c. 1750-1850
The Present and Future of US Politics
The Roger Scruton Memorial Lecture Series
Thinking Through Toxicity
TORCH Doctoral Network: Critical-Thinking Communities
Utopia Reading Group
Violence Studies Research Network
Women's Rights Research Seminar