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

Monday 16 February 2026

The Cultural Impact of Visits to the Roman Metropolis: Jews and the Big City
Date: 16 February 2026, 17:15 - 19:00
Speaker : Professor Eyal Ben-Eliyahu (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 17 February 2026

Adventures in Countering Disinformation: Policy Insights from Expert Interviews
Date: 17 February 2026, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Callum Harvey (Oxford Internet Institute)
Venue Details: Online Only
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

The Role of UNRWA Historical Refugee Registration Records in Documenting the Demographic Reality of the Nakba
Date: 17 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Valeria Cetorelli
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)

Governing a multi-ethnic state: Minority rights in early twentieth-century Baltics
Date: 17 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker s: Timo Aava (St Antony’s College, Oxford)), Martin Conway (Balliol 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: Katherine Lebow (Christ Church, Oxford)

Wednesday 18 February 2026

Greece’s comeback: how a nation regained credibility
Date: 18 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker s: Alex Patelis (Chief Economic Adviser to Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis (2019–2024),), Vicky Pryce (Economist & Business Consultant), Peter Sanfey (European Bank for Reconstuction and Development)
Venue: St Antony's College - North Site,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
Organisers: TBA
Host: Vasiliki Poula (St Hugh's College, Oxford)

Imams and patrons: service provision by Islamic non-state actors
Date: 18 February 2026, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker : Dr Tugba Bozcaga (KCL)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 19 February 2026

Title TBC
Date: 19 February 2026, 13:00 - 14:15
Speaker : Susanne Schmidt (Centre for WGQ Histories, and University of Basel)
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: Seminar Room (please locate from street not via the Lodge)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Facts against femonationalism: how to stop radical right normalisation
Date: 19 February 2026, 15:45 - 17:00
Speaker : Katharina Lawall (University of Reading)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Nissan Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Sanne van Oosten (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

BOOK TALK: Order and Region Making in the Middle East
Date: 19 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Simon Mabon (Lancaster 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 Raihan Ismail (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

Japan's Spongy-Middle Revolution
Date: 19 February 2026, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Professor David Howell (Harvard University)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor Gateway Building
Organisers: Dr Yosuke Buchmeier (Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, University of Oxford), Professor Roger Goodman (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Lessons in Failing Well: Catherine Hasted
Date: 19 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Catherine Hasted (University of Oxford)
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: Garden Quad Auditorium
Organisers: Vatsal Khandelwal (University of Exeter), Jasmin Baier (University of Oxford), Severine Toussaert (University of Oxford)
Host: Severine Toussaert (University of Oxford)

Mines, Minds, and Machines: The Race To Dominate the 4th Industrial Age
Date: 19 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Joseph Rooke
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Balliol Pavilion
Organisers: TBA
Host: The Oxford Diplomatic Society (University of Oxford)

Never Mind the Gender Clinic: Telling Trans Health Histories Against the Moral Panic
Date: 19 February 2026, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker : Jack Doyle
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre, ground floor and wheelchair accessible
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 20 February 2026

'Reparations: Slavery and the Tyranny of Imaginary Guilty' (Faith in Public Life Lecture)
Date: 20 February 2026, 11:00 - 12:30
Speaker : Professor Nigel Biggar
Venue: Pusey House,
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Campaigning and Counter-Insurgency in the Creole Archipelago: The British Struggle in the Revolutionary Caribbean
Date: 20 February 2026, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : David Lambert (Warwick)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Utopia Reading Group: Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time
Date: 20 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Sophie Cardin (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 23 February 2026

'Shepherding away from Home': The Role of the Prison Chaplain (Faith in Public Life Lecture)
Date: 23 February 2026, 18:15 - 19:30
Speaker s: Rosalind Lane, Paul Cowley
Venue: Pusey House,
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 24 February 2026

AI Workers, Geopolitics, and Algorithmic Collective Action
Date: 24 February 2026, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Sydney Reis (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online Only
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

Emotions in the Politics of Water: China–India Tensions over Tibetan Rivers
Date: 24 February 2026, 12:00 - 13:15
Speaker : Dr Antonina Łuszczykiewicz-Mendis (Jagiellonian 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)

Russian roulette: The need for stochastic potential outcomes when utilities depend on counterfactuals
Date: 24 February 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Professor Andrew Gelman (Department of Statistics and Department of Political Science, Columbia University, New York)
Organisers: Vatsal Khandelwal (University of Exeter), Jasmin Baier (University of Oxford), Severine Toussaert (University of Oxford)
Host: Severine Toussaert (University of Oxford)

High Tech Gays v. D.I.S.C.O: Challenging the Straight State in the Corporate Sphere
Date: 24 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Josh Hollands (UCL)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Tom Arnold-Forster (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

High Tech Gays v. D.I.S.C.O: Challenging the Straight State in the Corporate Sphere
Date: 24 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker s: Josh Hollands (UCL), Chair: Sarah Knott (Oxford)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Large Seminar Room (SR 2.3)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

BOOK TALK: Fire in Every Direction
Date: 24 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Tareq Baconi (Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network)
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: Dr Ammar Azzouz (Somerville College, University of Oxford), Professor Raihan Ismail (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

A Land for All: Two States. One Homeland.
Date: 24 February 2026, 17:15 - 19:00
Speaker s: Dr Yasmeen Abu Fraiha, Professor Oren Yiftachel (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
Venue: Worcester College, Walton Street OX1 2HB
Venue Details: Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre
Organiser: Dr Naomi Rokotnitz (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 25 February 2026

Transnational Trade & Labour History
Date: 25 February 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker s: Camille Neufville (University of Strasbourg), Amrit Deol (California State University, Fresno)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 20.402, History Hub, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Day 1: Conference - Confession - The Church's Gift to the World?
Date: 25 February 2026, 14:30 - 17:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Pusey House,
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Dr. Pusey on the Effects of Absolution: Catholic but not Roman (Recollection Lecture)
Date: 25 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:25
Speaker : Ben Jefferies (Trinity Anglican Seminary)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Christians, Jews, and Muslims' resistance to the Spanish Monarchs in 15th c. Malaga
Date: 25 February 2026, 16:15 - 17:15
Speaker : Celine Dauverd
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Okinaga Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

From divine sovereignty to national legitimacy: transformations in the theology of political Islam
Date: 25 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Jocelyn Cesari (University of Birmingham)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Male bodies for the fatherland. Invalidity and self-mutilation in the eighteenth-century Habsburg monarchy
Date: 25 February 2026, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Julia Heinemann (Antwerp)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 26 February 2026

Day 2: Conference - Confession - The Church's Gift to the World?
Date: 26 February 2026, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Pusey House,
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Glut
Date: 26 February 2026, 11:45 - 13:00
Speaker s: Anthea Butler (University of Pennsylvania, and Koch History Centre), Catherine Sloan (Oxford)
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: North Lecture Room
Organisers: Sarah Knott, Matt Cook, Suzan Meryem Rosita Kalayci, Julia Mannherz, Hannah Skoda, Lyndal Roper
Hosts: TBA

The Principle of the Rule of Law in Early Islam
Date: 26 February 2026, 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker : Professor Ahmed El-Shamsy (University of Chicago)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

What Economists Really Do - Pressure Points: How Sanctions Reshape Trade, Finance, and Firm Behaviour
Date: 26 February 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Beata Javorcik (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

FILM SCREENING: The Conspiracy: Assassination in Beirut
Date: 26 February 2026, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker s: Dan Clifton (Independent Writer/Director), Michael Taylor (Independent Investigations/Police Consultant)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford), Middle East Centre
Host: Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

Valedictory Lecture: Technology Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Governance: A Retrospective of 40 years
Date: 26 February 2026, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Professor Hugh Whittaker (University of Oxford)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor Gateway Building
Organisers: Dr Yosuke Buchmeier (Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, University of Oxford), Professor Roger Goodman (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Morale on the home front, 1914-1945: Its transnational construction and destruction
Date: 26 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker : Sheldon Garon (Princeton) (Princeton University)
Venue: St Antony's College - Main Site, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Nissan Lecture Theatre, Nissan Building
Organiser: Julie Adams (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Paul Betts (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

Feeling Safe but Not Ready: Disaster Risk Perception and Urban Resilience in Baltic Capitals
Date: 26 February 2026, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr. Didzis Kļaviņš (University of Latvia)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Seminar Room 1
Organisers: Emily Usherwood (Oxford Department of International Development), Jo Boyce (University of Oxford, Oxford Dept of International Development)
Host: Professor Corneliu Bjola (University of Oxford)

Friday 27 February 2026

Fascist India: Race, Caste and Hindutva [Book Talk]
Date: 27 February 2026, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Luna Sabastian (Northeastern University London)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Utopia Reading Group: Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time
Date: 27 February 2026, 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

Strategic Voting and Majority Rule
Date: 27 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Eric Maskin (Harvard University)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 3 March 2026

Between Sovereignty and Interdependence: India and South Africa’s AI development strategies
Date: 3 March 2026, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Ayantola Alayande (Oxford Department of International Development)
Venue Details: Online Only
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

Midshipmen Moralists: Jimmy Carter, H. Ross Perot, and the Enduring Mugwump Tradition
Date: 3 March 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Bruce Schulman (Boston University)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Tom Arnold-Forster (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

BOOK TALK: Contemporary Islamist Opposition in Morocco: Resisting Inclusion and Moderation
Date: 3 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Alfonso Casani (Complutense University of Madrid)
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)

Mistakes were made: The EU’s relations with Russia and Turkey in the 1990s
Date: 3 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker s: Ayşe Zarakol (Emmanual College, Cambridge), Roy Allison (St Antony’s)
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 4 March 2026

By the Power Vested in Me: How Experts Shape Same-Sex Marriage Debates
Date: 4 March 2026, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer (University of Toulouse)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Minicolloquium: A Genealogy of Post-Liberalism
Date: 4 March 2026, 14:00 - 17:25
Speaker s: Professor John Milbank (Emeritus Professor, Department of Theology & Religious Studies, University of Nottingham), Professor Paul Kelly (London School of Economics), Joao Pinheiro da Silva (St Andrew's), Jacob Williams (University of Oxford)
Venue: Pusey House,
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Transnational ties of faith: Imdadullah’s letters and writings from the Hijaz during the late-19th century
Date: 4 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Moin Ahmad Nizami (Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Can cultural life thrive under authoritarianism? Evidence from Greece, 1970-1973
Date: 4 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker s: Stathis Kalyvas (All Souls College, Oxford), Foteini Dimirouli (Keble College, Oxford)
Venue: St Antony's College - North Site,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
Organisers: TBA
Host: Othon Anastasakis (SEESOX, St Antony's College, Oxford)

Koch History Centre Lecture: Church, State and Hierarchy
Date: 4 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : David d'Avray
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 00.063, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 5 March 2026

Symposium: From Economic Security to Economic Statecraft: Insights from Japan, Europe, and the United States
Date: 5 March 2026, 9:30 - 18:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Nissan Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Kristi Govella (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 5 March 2026, 13:00 - 14:15
Speaker s: Emily Dyson (Political Science, Oxford), Lucile Richard (Political Theory, Oxford)
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Housing, childcare, and employment: How cumulative discrimination compounds inequality
Date: 5 March 2026, 15:45 - 17:00
Speaker s: Valentina Di Stasio (European University Institute), Stefanie Sprong (Universiteit Utrecht), Daniel Muir (Youth Futures Foundation), Katy Neep (Youth Futures Foundation)
Venue: Kellogg College, 62 Banbury Road OX2 6PN
Venue Details: Mawby Room
Organiser: Sanne van Oosten (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

A keynote conversation with Saeb Eigner about 'Artists of the Middle East. 1900 to Now.'
Date: 5 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Saeb Eigner (Author)
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)

Friday 6 March 2026

Hobbes the Egyptian: The Leviathan as Anti-Bible
Date: 6 March 2026, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Robert Yelle (LMU Munich)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Utopia Reading Group: Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time
Date: 6 March 2026, 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

Tuesday 10 March 2026

"A Happy, Angry Man"? John Hope Franklin and the Dilemmas of Black History in Public
Date: 10 March 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Tom Cryer (University of Oxford)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Tom Arnold-Forster (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

An Autocratic Middle Class? State Dependency and Protest in the Middle East and North Africa
Date: 10 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Neil Ketchley (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 11 March 2026

Postgraduate Presentations
Date: 11 March 2026, 10:00 - 14:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 20.513, Schwarzman Centre, Oxford OX2 6GG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Imperial and Postcolonial Regimes of Expertise: Medicine, Development, and Environmental Limits
Date: 11 March 2026, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Sudarshana Banerjee (University of St Andrews), Rishabh Bajoria (National University of Singapore)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 20.402, History Hub, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

From Sacrifice to Creation: Two Paradigms of Indian Political Thought
Date: 11 March 2026, 16:15 - 17:15
Speaker : Salmoli Choudhuri
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Okinaga Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Leviathan's health: state capacity and epidemics from the Black Death to Covid
Date: 11 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Sheilagh Ogilvie (University of Oxford)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 12 March 2026

Ideology Without Unity: The Logic of Xi Jinping Thought
Date: 12 March 2026, 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker : Professor Chris Mittelstaedt (University of Zurich)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organisers: Dr Mark Czeller (University of Oxford), Dr Cheuk Yee Wai (University of Oxford), Professor Tian Yuan Tan (University of Oxford), Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford), Dr Zhe Wang (University of Oxford), Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford), Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford), Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Archival Fragments, Experimental Modes in Oxford
Date: 12 March 2026, 16:00 - 17:15
Speaker s: Sara Johnson (UC San Diego), Sarah Knott (Oxford)
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: North Lecture Room
Organisers: Sarah Knott, Matt Cook, Suzan Meryem Rosita Kalayci, Julia Mannherz, Hannah Skoda, Lyndal Roper
Hosts: TBA

Decolonizing Security Studies - a North African perspective
Date: 12 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Nizar Messari (Al Akhawayn 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 Michael Willis (St Antony's College)

From Politics to People? Changing Protagonists and the Transformation of NHK Television News
Date: 12 March 2026, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Dr Yosuke Buchmeier (Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, University of Oxford)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor Gateway Building
Organisers: Dr Yosuke Buchmeier (Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, University of Oxford), Professor Roger Goodman (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 13 March 2026

Students Against Apartheid: Collective Emotions and the Making of a Global Movement
Date: 13 March 2026, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Daniel Manulak (Toronto & Oxford)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Utopia Reading Group: Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time
Date: 13 March 2026, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Sophie Cardin (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Saturday 9 May 2026

Reading Tayeb Salih in the 21st Century
Date: 9 May 2026, 9:45 - 18:00
Speaker s: Professor Laurent Mignon (University of Oxford), Mohamed Khalaph, Amal Osman, Dr Apala Das (Bilkent University, Ankara), Timour Muhidine (INALCO, Paris), Dr Lemya Shammat (Kind Saud University, Jeddah), Adil Babikir (Translator, Abu Dhabi), Dr Abdelmagid Abdelrahman Awadelkarim (Majmaah University, Saudia Arabia), Dr Richard Barltrop (LSE Middle East Centre), Dr Ahmed Al-Shahi (The Sudanese Programme)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (University of Oxford), Dr Ahmed Al-Shahi (The Sudanese Programme), Middle East Centre
Hosts: Professor Laurent Mignon (University of Oxford), Dr Ahmed Al-Shahi (Chair and Trustee, The Sudanese Programme)

Thursday 11 June 2026

Day 1 - Reimagining Humanism: Religious Humanisms as Frameworks for Building a Common Life in a Fractured World
Date: 11 June 2026, 9:00 - 17:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Christ Church, St Aldates OX1 1DP
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Reimagining Humanism | McDonald Centre Annual Conference 2026
Date: 11 June 2026, 17:00 - 14:30
Speaker s: Rev. Canon Prof. Luke Bretherton (University of Oxford), Slavica Jakelić (Richard P. Baepler Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, Valparaiso University), Randi Rashkover (Nathan and Sofia Gumenick Chair of Judaic Studies, William & Mary), Eric Gregory (Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Religion, Princeton University), Ufuk Topkara (Professor of Comparative Theology from an Islamic Perspective at the Berlin Institute for Islamic Theology, Humboldt University of Berlin), Professor Joshua Hordern, Aaron Stalnaker (Professor of Religious Studies, Indiana University), Chammah Kaunda (Academic Dean at the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies (OCMS))
Venue: Christ Church, St Aldates OX1 1DP
Venue Details: Michael Dummett Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Host: Rev. Canon Prof. Luke Bretherton (University of Oxford)

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)
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
Koch History Centre Seminars and Events
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 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 - Events
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
Pusey House Lectures and Events
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 Politics of Immigration and Exclusion
The Present and Future of US Politics
The Roger Scruton Memorial Lecture Series
Thinking Justice in Muslim Societies
Thinking Through Toxicity
TORCH Doctoral Network: Critical-Thinking Communities
Utopia Reading Group
Violence Studies Research Network
WGQ "Care" series
WGQ Centre
Women's Rights Research Seminar