Monday 9 February 2015

• 17:00 - Diplomacy and Crises: A practitioner's insight and outlook
  Wilfried Bolewski (Professor of International Law and Diplomacy, American Graduate School in Paris, former German Ambassador)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series

Thursday 12 February 2015

• 15:00 - Has financial globalization changed the context for US international policy?
  Caroline Atkinson
  Political Economy of Financial Markets Programme

Monday 2 March 2015

• 17:00 - Regulating Business for Peace: The United Nations, the Private Sector, and Post-Conflict Recovery
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  TBA
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series

Monday 11 May 2015

• 17:00 - Rebuilding trust in banks: Beyond regulation and governance
  Peter Montagnon (Institute of Business Ethics)
  Political Economy of Financial Markets Programme

Tuesday 12 May 2015

• 13:00 - Arrangements of Convenience Among Violent Non-State Actors
  Annette Idler (Blavatnik School of Government)
  Changing Character of War
• 17:00 - The political economy of the Irish 'bailout'
  Patrick Honohan (Central Bank of Ireland)
  Political Economy of Financial Markets Programme

Thursday 14 May 2015

• 11:00 - ‘Climate as a driver of tundra shrub expansion’
  TBA
  Environmental Change Institute
• 17:00 - Policy options for raising public investment in Germany
  Jeromin Zettelmeyer (Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs, Berlin, Germany)
  Political Economy of Financial Markets Programme

Monday 18 May 2015

• 17:00 - The insurance market: Ensuring performance, reputation and trust
  Peter Taylor (Research Fellow, Oxford Martin School) (Oxford Martin School)
  Political Economy of Financial Markets Programme

Tuesday 19 May 2015

• 12:00 - Sisters and Sisterhood: The Kenneys and the Suffragettes & Imaginary Friends: Female Alliances in the Eighteenth-Century Quaker Community
  Lyndsey Jenkins (Oxford), Naomi Pullin (Oxford/Warwick)
  Gender, Women and Culture
• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Paul Schulte, Alexander Leveringhaus
  Changing Character of War

Tuesday 26 May 2015

• 13:00 - The Evolution of Grand Strategy in Theory and Practice
  Lukas Milevski (CCW)
  Changing Character of War

Monday 1 June 2015

• 17:00 - Too big to jail: The evolution of corporate prosecutions in the United States
  Brandon L. Garrett (University of Virginia School of Law)
  Political Economy of Financial Markets Programme

Tuesday 2 June 2015

• 12:00 - Druisilla's Inheritance: Possessing and Transmitting Power in Caligula's Rome
  Sarah Cohen (Oxford)
  Gender, Women and Culture
• 13:00 - British Military Leadership in the Iraq and Afghan Wars: Why was Success so Elusive?
  Christopher Elliott (CCW)
  Changing Character of War

Friday 5 June 2015

• 17:00 - The Oxford Energy Innovation Weekend - Fuel Poverty Hackathon
  TBA
  Environmental Change Institute

Monday 8 June 2015

• 11:00 - ‘Hydrology, Remote Sensing and Data Analytics for Infrastructure – Case Studies from South East Asia’
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  Environmental Change Institute

Tuesday 9 June 2015

• 13:00 - Civilians in War
  Neta Crawford
  Changing Character of War

Monday 15 June 2015

• 17:00 - Mapping financial integration in East Asia
  Jenny Corbett (Australian National University)
  Political Economy of Financial Markets Programme

Monday 5 October 2015

• 09:30 - 4th Oxford Energy Conference: Integrating Renewables
  TBA
  Environmental Change Institute

Friday 16 October 2015

• 10:30 - Carbon Innovation Programme Launch Event
  Various Speakers
  Environmental Change Institute
• 17:00 - ‘”Telling the natives what they need to know”: British institutions and the pursuit of an imperial role at the end of empire’
  Sarah Stockwell (KCL)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 19 October 2015

• 17:00 - Why are we waiting? The logic, urgency, and promise of tackling climate change
  Nicholas Stern (I. G. Patel Professor of Economics and Government at the London School of Economics, Member of the Oxford Martin School Advisory Council; President of the British Academy, Chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change, and former Chief Economist at the World Bank.)
  Environmental Change Institute
• 17:00 - The Troika--past and future? A view from Washington
  Russell (Kincaid)
  Political Economy of Financial Markets Programme

Friday 23 October 2015

• 14:00 - Rebuilding trust in the global economy: Lessons from Chinese law
  This is a joint event with The Institute of New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School, the Political Economy of Financial Markets Programme at St Antony’s, and the Global Economic Governance Programme.
  Professor Nicholas Morris (INET at the Oxford Martin School)
  Political Economy of Financial Markets Programme
• 17:00 - ‘Accounting for the Great Divergence’
  Stephen Broadberry (University of Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 26 October 2015

• 17:00 - Europe’s economic crisis and the missing financial recovery
  Jeffrey Franks (IMF)
  Political Economy of Financial Markets Programme

Friday 30 October 2015

• 17:00 - ‘White Revolutions: The Making of the Dairy Industry in Settler Australia’
  Yoriko Otomo (SOAS)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Carbon Innovation Programme Event
  Networking Event
  Environmental Change Institute

Tuesday 3 November 2015

• 14:00 - The Raj at War
  Yasmin Khan (Oxford)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Friday 6 November 2015

• 17:00 - ‘Global Economic Development and the Anthropocene’
  Gareth Austin (Geneva)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Tuesday 10 November 2015

• 14:00 - Politics and the Promise of Bhagat Singh
  Chris Moffat (Queen Mary)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Friday 13 November 2015

• 17:00 - ‘The capital and slavery. London and the Atlantic slave trade 1670-1770'
  Nuala Zahedieh (Edinburgh)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 16 November 2015

• 17:00 - Judgments and Justifications: The United Kingdom as International Crisis Manager, 1992-2003
  Markus Kornprobst (Diplomatic Academy of Vienna)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series

Tuesday 17 November 2015

• 14:00 - Longing for the state: The dialectics of the Local and Transnational in Pakistan's Sunni-Shi'i Sectarianism
  Simon Fuchs (Cambridge)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Wednesday 18 November 2015

• 17:30 - A Discussion of 'The Calling of History: Sir Jadunath Sarkar and His Empire of Truth'
  Dipesh Chakrabarty (The University of Chicago), Rosalind O'Hanlon (Oxford), Shruti Kapila (Cambridge), Sanjay Seth (Goldsmiths)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Friday 20 November 2015

• 17:00 - ‘Failure of the Bank of Bombay in 1868 and the concept of ‘difference’: Between the City of London and the Bazaar of Bombay’
  Stuart Sweeney (OCGH, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 23 November 2015

• 17:00 - The Eurozone government debt crisis: Stylised facts, root causes, and policy lessons
  Lorenzo Codogno (LSE; former Chief Economist at Italian Treasury)
  Political Economy of Financial Markets Programme

Tuesday 24 November 2015

• 14:00 - A National History for Pakistan: Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi (1903-1981) and the Genealogy of the 'Master Narrative'
  Ali Usman Qasmi (LUMS)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Friday 27 November 2015

• 17:00 - ‘Law and the economy in colonial India’
  Tirthankar Roy (LSE)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Tuesday 1 December 2015

• 14:00 - Paradoxes of the Shia Minority in Pakistan
  Andreas Rieck (Berlin)
  Modern South Asia Seminar
• 17:45 - Carbon's Den
  Various Speakers
  Environmental Change Institute

Friday 4 December 2015

• 17:00 - ‘Protectionism, the Ottawa accords, and British interwar trade: some preliminary findings’
  Kevin O’Rourke (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 18 January 2016

• 17:00 - “Discipline and Dissolution in Rebellion: How internal governance explains insurgent violence in Sierra Leone”
  Zoe Marks (Edinburgh)
  African History & Politics Seminars

Tuesday 19 January 2016

• 14:00 - The Making of a Constitution: Pakistan and the Question of Sovereignty
  Yaqoob Khan Bangash (Lahore)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Friday 22 January 2016

• 17:00 - ‘”Dead men naked”: Livingstone, memorialisation and British colonial rule in central Africa’
  Joanna Lewis (LSE)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 25 January 2016

• 17:00 - Was the global financial crisis really a “debt crisis”?
  Anatole Kaletsky (Gavekal Consultancy)
  Political Economy of Financial Markets Programme
• 17:00 - “Angolanidade: race and class in postwar Luanda”
  Jon Schubert (Leipzig)
  African History & Politics Seminars

Tuesday 26 January 2016

• 14:00 - Spirits of Discord and Everyday Labours of Peace: Intercommunal Relations in Amroha
  Laurent Gayer (Scievnces-Po)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Friday 29 January 2016

• 17:00 - 'The 'Lonrho Affair' and the Late Colonial World'
  Andrew Cohen (Kent)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 1 February 2016

• 17:00 - “Democracy versus Diversity: Ethnic representation in a devolved Kenya”
  Dominic Burbidge (Oxford)
  African History & Politics Seminars

Tuesday 2 February 2016

• 14:00 - Postgraduate Research Seminar
  Amar Sohal, Ria Kapoor, Daniel Hunt
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Friday 5 February 2016

• 17:00 - ‘Snapshots of Empire: Imperial governance everywhere and all at once’
  Alan Lester (Sussex)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 8 February 2016

• 17:00 - “Africa after the Commodity Super-Cycle”
  Ian Taylor (St Andrews)
  African History & Politics Seminars

Tuesday 9 February 2016

• 14:00 - Postgraduate Research Seminar
  Gautham Shiralagi, Smriti Sawkar, Conor Meleady
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Friday 12 February 2016

• 17:00 - ‘Patrolling and Controlling: Surveillance, Violence and State Security in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Colonies’
  Richard Hill (Victoria University Wellington; OCGH Visiting Scholar)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 15 February 2016

• 17:00 - “Darfur: Colonial violence, local politics and state formation, 1916-1956”
  Chris Vaughan (John Moores)
  African History & Politics Seminars
• 17:00 - An ethics code for bankers?
  Robert Mass (Goldman Sachs)
  Political Economy of Financial Markets Programme

Tuesday 16 February 2016

• 14:00 - Mechanism of oppression, Dalits and legal developments in India
  Dag Erik Berg (Göttingen)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Friday 19 February 2016

• 17:00 - ‘Legal culture, trade and inter-imperial circulation : a mid 18th century Atlantic case’
  Marie Houllemare (Amiens / Institut Universitaire de France / OCGH Visiting Scholar)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 22 February 2016

• 17:00 - “Constructing Space for Tourism: the role and impacts of trans-frontier conservation areas in Southern and Eastern Africa”
  Christine Noe (Dar es Salaam)
  African History & Politics Seminars

Tuesday 23 February 2016

• 14:00 - Postgraduate Research Seminar
  Niroshini Sundaresan, Emile Rolland, Sam McNeil
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Friday 26 February 2016

• 17:00 - ‘The Gun in Central Africa: A History of Politics and Technology’
  Giacomo Macola (Kent)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 29 February 2016

• 17:00 - “Making Sense of Israeli-African Relations”
  Yossi Melman (Jerusalem Post writer on intelligence and strategic affairs formerly with Haaretz), Naomi Chazan (Professor emerita at Hebrew University and former Deputy Speaker of the Knesset)
  African History & Politics Seminars
• 17:00 - Global financial services reform since the 2007 crisis- job done, or significant risks still ahead?
  David Wright (Secretary General, IOSCO)
  Political Economy of Financial Markets Programme

Tuesday 1 March 2016

• 09:00 - Workshop on Pakistani Historiography
  TBA
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Friday 4 March 2016

• 10:00 - Graduate Student Research Presentations
  TBA
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 7 March 2016

• 17:00 - "Capturing the White Ant: After the ICC in Africa"
  Adam Branch (Cambridge)
  African History & Politics Seminars
• 17:30 - An Undocumented Wonder - the Making of the Great Indian Election
  S.Y. Quraishi (Former Chief Election Commissioner of India)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Tuesday 8 March 2016

• 14:00 - Histories of the ephemeral: writing on music in the late Mughal world
  Katherine Butler Schofield (King’s College, London)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Friday 11 March 2016

• 10:00 - Graduate Student Research Presentations
  TBA
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Tuesday 26 April 2016

• 14:00 - Colonial India and the Hajj, 1865-1950
  John Slight (St John's College, Cambridge)
  Modern South Asia Seminar
• 16:00 - Biography and the politics of slavery: the competing priorities of Edward Everett and John Quincy Adams
  Matthew Mason (Brigham Young University)
  American History Research Seminar

Monday 2 May 2016

• 17:00 - Financial reform in South East Europe: Turkey’s response to the past and current crises
  In association with SEESOX
  Gazi Ercel (Former Governor, Central Bank of Turkey)
  Political Economy of Financial Markets Programme

Tuesday 3 May 2016

• 14:00 - The Fires of Hell: Communalism and Satire in the Hindi Short Stories of Pandey Bechan Sharma "Ugra"
  David Lunn (SOAS)
  Modern South Asia Seminar
• 16:00 - The 2016 Sir John Elliott Lecture in Atlantic History. Populism and memories in a sea of storms: hurricanes and the creation of welfare states in the greater Caribbean
  Stuart Schwartz (Yale University)
  American History Research Seminar

Wednesday 4 May 2016

• 17:15 - New Work in Progress Workshop: Modern
  Louis Halewood, Jack Doyle, Jon Askonas
  History of War Seminar Series

Monday 9 May 2016

• 17:00 - What they do with your money: Does the finance industry do its job well?
  David Pitt-Watson (London Business School)
  Political Economy of Financial Markets Programme

Tuesday 10 May 2016

• 14:00 - Distinction or Distraction? The Politics of Connoisseurship in eighteenth-century Rajput Courts
  Richard Williams (Oriental Studies; Trinity College, Oxford)
  Modern South Asia Seminar
• 16:00 - American Indian child removal and the elusiveness of reconciliation
  Margaret Jacobs (Nebraska-Lincoln University)
  American History Research Seminar

Tuesday 17 May 2016

• 14:00 - Gandhian Entrepreneurship - Kamalnayan Bajaj, Architect of the Bajaj Group
  Gita Piramal (Said Business School, Oxford)
  Modern South Asia Seminar
• 16:00 - The power of mutual understanding: cultural excahnge in Cold War Hawai'i
  This Lecture starts at 5 pm
  Sarah Miller-Davenport (Sheffield University)
  American History Research Seminar

Wednesday 18 May 2016

• 14:00 - A Messiah in Texas: a psychological perspective on the Branch Davidians and the Siege in Waco
  Sloan Mahone (University of Oxford)
  Centre for Gender, Identity and Subjectivity Discussion Group (formerly Reading Group)
• 17:15 - Gender and the History of War (Joint Session with the Centre for Gender, Identity and Subjectivity)
  Karen Hagermann (UNC Chapell Hill/ Netherland Institute for Advanced Study)
  History of War Seminar Series

Monday 23 May 2016

• 17:00 - Banking reform: The limits of prudence
  Ian Plenderleith (Morgan Stanley International; Former Bank of England)
  Political Economy of Financial Markets Programme
• 17:00 - Anatomy of Authoritarianism in the Arab Republics
  Professor Joseph Sassoon (Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University)

Tuesday 24 May 2016

• 14:00 - Rediscovering the Primitive: Adivasi Histories in and after Subaltern Studies
  Uday Chandra (Georgetown, Qatar)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Wednesday 25 May 2016

• 14:00 - Apotheosis redux: Were European Travellers ever taken to be gods in moments of first contact? (1480-1980)
  Alan Strathern (University of Oxford)
  Centre for Gender, Identity and Subjectivity Discussion Group (formerly Reading Group)
• 17:00 - The 2016 Ambassador John J. Louis Jr. Lecture in Anglo-American Relations
  This Lecture starts at 5 pm
  His Excellency Matthew Barzun (US Ambassador to the Court of St Jame's)
  American History Research Seminar

Tuesday 31 May 2016

• 14:00 - Can Britain be liable for reparations for the 1943-44 Bengal Famine?
  Sarmila Bose (DPIR, Oxford)
  Modern South Asia Seminar
• 16:00 - The Slave Power's grassroots: voter mobilization and the defence of slavery before the American Civil War
  Frank Towers (Calgary University)
  American History Research Seminar

Wednesday 1 June 2016

• 14:00 - Writing a history of the Counter-Reformation for a global age
  Simon Ditchfield (York University)
  Centre for Gender, Identity and Subjectivity Discussion Group (formerly Reading Group)
• 16:00 - Women and Conflict in India
  Sanghamitra Choudhury (St Antony's College; Sikkim)
  Modern South Asia Seminar
• 17:15 - "Come forward and help us in this emergency": The response of the British Red Cross to Conscription and the Battle of the Somme
  Rosemary Wall (Hull University)
  History of War Seminar Series

Monday 6 June 2016

• 17:00 - The G20 financial regulatory reform and the next financial crisis
  Malcolm Knight (London School of Economics)
  Political Economy of Financial Markets Programme

Wednesday 8 June 2016

• 14:00 - Religion and "the secular": Modern (mis)understanding of an ancient concept
  Kate Cooper (Manchester University)
  Centre for Gender, Identity and Subjectivity Discussion Group (formerly Reading Group)

Thursday 9 June 2016

• 17:00 - Rothermere American Institute, Latin American Centre, and Centre for Global History joint seminar. The New World: Eurocentric label or valid historical category?
  This Lecture starts at 5 pm
  Jose C. Moya (Columbia University)
  American History Research Seminar

Wednesday 15 June 2016

• 14:00 - Pious dichotomies and obfuscations in the historiography of the medieval church
  Amanda Power (University of Oxford)
  Centre for Gender, Identity and Subjectivity Discussion Group (formerly Reading Group)
• 17:15 - New Work in Progress Workshop: Early Modern: The "Artillery Revolution" in the Burgundian Low Countries. Artillery in the Early Modern Anglo-Scottish Border Region. Confession in the Armies of the Thirty Years War. Religion in the Late Stuart Army
  Michael Depreter, Tom Boyd, Ryan Crimmins, Liao Ping
  History of War Seminar Series

Monday 10 October 2016

• 13:00 - An Introduction to Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative
  Lunch Provided
  Professor Sabina Alkire (University of Oxford)
  Archive: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Ethics and cultural assimilation in financial services
  Alan Morrison (Saïd Business School), John Thanassoulis (Oxford-Man Institute, University of Oxford)
  Political Economy of Financial Markets Programme

Tuesday 11 October 2016

• 14:00 - Of Nomadology and India(n-ness)
  Avishek Ray (Silchar; Edinburgh)
  Modern South Asia Seminar
• 16:00 - Book launch: ‘A Culture of Credit: Embedding Trust and Transparency in American Business’
  Dr Rowena Olegario (Saïd Business School)
  American History Research Seminar

Thursday 13 October 2016

• 17:00 - Inequality and its discontents
  Professor Brian Nolan (Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School)
  Inequality
• 17:00 - ‘Teaching Africa’
  Various Speakers
  African Studies Seminar Series

Friday 14 October 2016

• 17:00 - 'Anti-Colonial Rebellion during the First World War: The French Empire in Indo-China’
  Jonathan Krause (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 17 October 2016

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Lunch Provided
  TBA
  Archive: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Global inequality: a new approach for the age of globalization
  Professor Branko Milanovic (City University of New Your)
  Inequality
• 17:00 - A pragmatic approach to reform of banking governance and culture
  John Mellor (School of Management, University of Leicester)
  Political Economy of Financial Markets Programme

Tuesday 18 October 2016

• 13:00 - An Ontology of Autonomy for Autonomous Weapons Systems
  Dr Heather Roff (Oxford)
  Changing Character of Warfare: Tuesday Lunchtime Seminars
• 14:00 - A Zionist Passage to India?
  Arie Dubnov (Haifa; George Washington)
  Modern South Asia Seminar
• 16:00 - ‘“Exiled Children” and the Easter Rising: America and Irish Independence’
  Professor Robert Schmuhl (Notre Dame)
  American History Research Seminar

Wednesday 19 October 2016

• 17:15 - Is it Gucci? What Mundane Technologies tell us about Military Innovation and the Balance of Power in the Military Industrial Complex
  Matthew Ford (Sussex)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 20 October 2016

• 17:00 - ‘Between Rootedness and Rootlessness: How Sedentarist and Nomadic Metaphysics Simultaneously Challenge and Reinforce (Dual) Citizenship Claims for Liberia’
  Robtel Neajai Pailey (University of Oxford)
  African Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Research Brief Encounters
  All staff, students, and early career researchers from any discipline are encouraged to attend this informal, fun and sociable event to meet and chat about research. Undergraduates who are developing/considering dissertations on gender, identity and subjectivity are also warmly invited to join us.
  Various Speakers
  Centre for Gender, Identity and Subjectivity Discussion Group (formerly Reading Group)

Friday 21 October 2016

• 17:00 - ‘The Military Revolution and European Global Expansion’
  Dr Peter Wilson (All Souls College)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 24 October 2016

• 13:00 - The choice of weights in multidimensional poverty measurement - An empirical validation
  Lunch Provided
  Michael Schleicher ( South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University)
  Archive: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The future of banking and the role of challenger banks
  Cyrus Ardalan (NorthOak Bank)
  Political Economy of Financial Markets Programme

Tuesday 25 October 2016

• 13:00 - Militant Jihadi Culture: Poetry as a Weapon
  Dr Elisabeth Kendall (Oxford)
  Changing Character of Warfare: Tuesday Lunchtime Seminars
• 14:00 - Book launch: Defending British India Against Napoleon: The Foreign Policy of Governor-General Lord Minto, 1807-13
  Aditya Das (Swansea), Huw Bowen (Swansea)
  Modern South Asia Seminar
• 16:00 - 'Race and the Supreme Court: breaking new ground, 1935-53’
  Professor Vernon Burton (Clemson)
  American History Research Seminar

Thursday 27 October 2016

• 17:00 - Women's health: a new global agenda
  Professor Robyn Norton (Co-Director of The George Institute for Global Health)
  Inequality
• 17:00 - ‘Send war in our time, O Lord!' Liberal violence and its afterlives: towards a cultural history of the African Resistance Movement (ARM)'
  This seminar has been cancelled.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  TBA
  African Studies Seminar Series

Friday 28 October 2016

• 17:00 - ‘Eighteenth-century Empires at War: Managing Knowledge in Franco-British Imperial Wars’
  Erica Charters (Wolfson, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 31 October 2016

• 13:00 - The Research agenda on multidimensional poverty: important and as-yet unanswered questions
  Lunch Provided
  Professor Sabina Alkire (University of Oxford)
  Archive: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 17:00 - From Gridlock to Catalyst: The Surprising Evolution of the Climate Regime
  Dr Thomas Hale (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series
• 17:00 - Restoring trust in finance: Competition or moral motivation?
  Gordon Menzies (University of Technology Sydney)
  Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM)

Tuesday 1 November 2016

• 13:00 - Strategy Evolves from Apes to Artificial Intelligence
  Dr Kenneth Payne (King's College, London)
  Changing Character of Warfare: Tuesday Lunchtime Seminars
• 14:00 - Re-building Democracy: Parekh on Indian Nationalism and the Common Good
  Colin Tyler (Hull)
  Modern South Asia Seminar
• 16:00 - ‘Exiled from the Americanization Paradigm: The Marginalized Relationship between Zionism and Afrocentrism’
  Dr Matthew Silver (Emek Yezreel)
  American History Research Seminar

Wednesday 2 November 2016

• 17:00 - Turkey before and after 15 July: The story of a failed coup
  Ezgi Başaran (St Antony's College, Oxford), Deniz Ulke Aribogan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford), Mehmet Karli (Centre for International Studies, Oxford), Yaprak Gursoy (St Antony's College, Oxford)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
• 17:15 - New approaches to early modern warfare
  Lucia Staiano-Daniels (UCLA), Adam Storring (Cambridge), Andrew Tzavaras (Oxford)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 3 November 2016

• 17:00 - Skills, education and work in the digital age
  Dr Craig Holmes (Institute of New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School)
  Inequality
• 17:00 - ‘Mau Mau and Rastafari: Kenya’s War in Jamaica at the End of Empire’
  Myles Osborne (University of Colorado)
  African Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Bosnia's Paralysed Peace
  Signed copies of Christopher Bennett's book will be on sale after the talk.
  Christopher Bennett (Foundation for the Preservation of Historical Heritage, Sarajevo; Former Deputy High Representative)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)

Friday 4 November 2016

• 17:00 - ‘The Impact of World War One on British Imperial Relations’
  Margaret MacMillan (St Antony’s, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 7 November 2016

• 13:00 - Measurement and determinants of child multidimensional poverty in Senegal
  Lunch Provided
  Bouba Housseini (University of Oxford)
  Archive: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 17:00 - European Banking Union: The unfinished agenda for a changing Europe
  Christos Gortsos (Law School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
  Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM)
• 17:00 - Sweet Talk: Paternalism and Collective Action in North-South Trade Negotiations
  Professor J P Singh (Director, Centre for Cultural Relations, University of Edinburgh)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series

Tuesday 8 November 2016

• 13:00 - What we are Missing about the Missing: Searching for the Disappeared Victims of Armed Conflict
  Dr Derek Congram (University of Toronto)
  Changing Character of Warfare: Tuesday Lunchtime Seminars
• 14:00 - Eastminster – Decolonisation and State-Building in British Asia
  Harshan Kumarasingham (Frankfurt; Commonwealth Studies, London)
  Modern South Asia Seminar
• 16:00 - ‘“Not the kind of thing you usually hear”: Civil Rights Activism, Sexual Violence, and Pornographic Tales, 1960-1965’
  Dr Althea Legal-Miller (UCL)
  American History Research Seminar

Wednesday 9 November 2016

• 17:00 - Brexit and its impact on the Western Balkans
  Peter Sanfey (European Bank for Reconstuction and Development)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)

Thursday 10 November 2016

• 17:00 - Inequality, poverty and global development
  Professor Stefan Dercon (Blavatnik School of Government)
  Inequality
• 17:00 - ‘The Gambela Years: SPLA soldiers' memories of exile, 1983-1991’
  Sebabatso Manoeli (University of Oxford)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Friday 11 November 2016

• 17:00 - ‘Voices from the 1915 Chilembwe Rising in Nyasaland’
  John McCracken (Stirling)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 14 November 2016

• 13:00 - Changes in multidimensional poverty among countries in Sub-Saharan Africa – Results for 35 Countries
  Lunch Provided
  Christoph Jindra (University of Oxford)
  Archive: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Ethical Guerrilla Warfare, Terrorism, and the Provisional IRA
  Rachel Kowalski (Wolfson Scholar and PhD Candidate at Oxford University)
  Violence Studies Research Network
• 17:00 - Bank resolution in the European financial architecture
  Joanne Kellerman (Single Resolution Boad)
  Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM)

Tuesday 15 November 2016

• 13:00 - The Role of Ideology in Mass Atrocities
  Dr Jonathan Leader Maynard (Oxford)
  Changing Character of Warfare: Tuesday Lunchtime Seminars
• 14:00 - Feminine Abandon and the Abducted Woman in Post-Partition Shorey Comedies
  Salma Siddique (Freie Universität Berlin)
  Modern South Asia Seminar
• 17:00 - Harmsworth Lecture in American History: ‘American Revolutions: Empires and Republics in North America, 1750-1804’
  Professor Alan Taylor (Virginia)
  American History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - A democratic challenge: Social reform in Greece under Syriza
  George Katrougalos (Minister of Labour and Social Security, Greece)
  ESC Core Seminar Series

Wednesday 16 November 2016

• 12:00 - Discussion of Harmsworth Lecture in American History
  Professor Alan Taylor (Virginia)
  American History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Book Launch: The New Turkey and its Discontents
  A drinks reception will follow the talk
  Emre Caliskan (St Antony's College, Oxford), Simon A. Waldman (King’s College London)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
• 17:15 - Violence in the Russian Civil War 1918-21
  Stephen Smith (Oxford)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 17 November 2016

• 17:00 - Urbanisation, migration and the future metropolis
  Michael Keith
  Inequality
• 17:00 - ‘Cholera and the Politics of Disposability in Harare's High-Density Townships’
  Simukai Chigudu (University of Oxford)
  African Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Conversations with Milosevic
  A drinks reception will follow the talk
  Ivor Roberts (President, Trinity College, Oxford)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)

Friday 18 November 2016

• 17:00 - ‘‘A Band of Mothers’. The Mothers Union and Global Solidarities amongst Anglican Women during the First World War’
  Adrian Gregory (Pembroke, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 21 November 2016

• 13:00 - Multidimensional poverty in China 2010-2014
  Lunch Provided
  Yangyang Shen (University of Oxford)
  Archive: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series

Tuesday 22 November 2016

• 13:00 - Social Pluralism, Religious Cleansing and 'Hybrid Warfare' in Contemporary Syria
  Dr John Eibner (Christian Solidarity International)
  Changing Character of Warfare: Tuesday Lunchtime Seminars
• 14:00 - Feeling Untouched: Space, Emotions and Untouchability
  Jesús Cháirez-Garza (Leeds)
  Modern South Asia Seminar
• 16:00 - ‘The Floating University and the Politics of Knowing: Interwar America and the World’
  Dr Tamson Pietsch (Sydney and RAI)
  American History Research Seminar

Wednesday 23 November 2016

• 17:00 - The challenges for Greece: What does the future hold?
  TBA
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)

Thursday 24 November 2016

• 17:00 - What influences intergenerational social mobility in Europe?
  Dr Erzsébet Bukodi (Institute of New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School), Dr Marii Paskov (Institute of New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School)
  Inequality
• 17:00 - ‘Queer provocations, nightlife and popular culture in Kinshasa’
  Thomas Hendriks (University of Oxford)
  African Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Europe after Brexit: Viewpoints from two EU Foreign Ministers
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  HE Nikos Kotzias (Minister of Foreign Affairs, Greece), HE Daniel Mitov (Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bulgaria)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)

Friday 25 November 2016

• 17:00 - ‘Postwar China and the Making of Modern World Order, 1945-50’
  Rana Mitter (St Cross, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 28 November 2016

• 13:00 - Do alternative measures of poverty matter? A comparison between consumption poverty and multidimensional poverty in Indonesia
  Lunch Provided
  TBA
  Archive: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Eraced: International Relations and the Global Colour Line
  Nivi Manchanda (Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series
• 17:00 - Civil Society in Transitional Geopolitical Conjunctures; Colombia’s Hidden Peace Processes
  Gwen Burnyeat (Wolfson Scholar and PhD Candidate at UCL)
  Violence Studies Research Network
• 17:00 - Brexit - what are the options?
  Anatole Kaletsky (Gavekal Consultancy)
  Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM)

Tuesday 29 November 2016

• 13:00 - Tracing the Ideology in an Ideological Struggle: What are the Niger Delta Militant Conflicts about?
  Olanshile Akintola (Oxford)
  Changing Character of Warfare: Tuesday Lunchtime Seminars
• 14:00 - Pakistan and Ireland: Exploring Comparative Constitutional Perspectives on Decolonisation, Dominion Status, & Beyond
  Luke McDonagh (City, London), Mara Malagodi (City, London)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Wednesday 30 November 2016

• 17:00 - Turkey’s 1974 Cyprus military intervention: A case of Responsibilty to Protect?
  Altug Gunal (Ege University İzmir/St Antony's College, Oxford)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
• 17:15 - War Elephants and Tanks: Comparative Perspectives on Ancient and Modern Warfare
  Alaric Searle (Salford)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 1 December 2016

• 15:00 - Governance of the European Monetary Union
  BOOK LAUNCH
  Francisco Torres (LSE)
  Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM)
• 17:00 - Tackling inequality: strategies, priorities and effects
  Professor Brian Nolan (Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School), Professor Sir Paul Collier (Blavatnik School of Government), Professor Sandra Fredman (Oxford Martin Programme on Human Rights for Future Generations), Professor John Goldthorpe (Nuffield College), Professor Simonetta Manfredi (Oxford Brookes University)
  Inequality
• 17:00 - Brexit and the future of European integration
  Russell Kincaid (Former IMF), Francisco Torres (LSE)
  Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM)

Friday 2 December 2016

• 17:00 - Book Launch: ‘The Katangese Gendarmes and War in Central Africa, 1960-1999’
  Miles Larmer (St Antony’s, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 12 December 2016

• 17:00 - The Intimacy of Political Violence: Belfast 1969
  Dr Simon Prince (Canterbury Christ Church University)
  Violence Studies Research Network

Thursday 15 December 2016

• 11:00 - Title TBC
  TBA
  Violence Studies Research Network

Monday 16 January 2017

• 17:00 - Title TBC
  TBA
  Violence Studies Research Network
• 17:00 - The End of Africa Rising
  Ian Taylor (St Andrews)
  African History & Politics Seminars

Tuesday 17 January 2017

• 11:30 - CGIS Reading Group: On the theme of ‘Gendered mobilities’
  Please read in advance: • Thomas Faist, ‘The Mobility Turn: A New Paradigm for the Social Sciences?’, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 36:11 (2013), pp. 1637-1646. • Ceri-Anne Fidler, ‘The Impact of Migration upon Family Life and Gender Relations: the case of South Asian Sea-Farers, c. 1900-1950’, Women’s History Review, 24:3 (2015), pp. 410-428. • Nancy L. Green, ‘Changing Paradigms in Migration Studies: From Men to Women to Gender’, Gender & History, 24:3 (2012), pp. 782-789.
  Various Speakers
  Centre for Gender, Identity and Subjectivity Discussion Group (formerly Reading Group)
• 14:00 - Directive Principles and the Expressive Accommodation of Ideological Dissenters in the Indian Constitution
  Tarunabh Khaitan (Wadham)
  Modern South Asia Seminar
• 16:00 - "Giving Law to Europe": Geopolitics, Political Culture, and the Origins of the American Revolution'
  Daniel Robinson (University of Cambridge)
  American History Research Seminar

Thursday 19 January 2017

• 11:30 - 'I, Juljan-Eljasz Siergiewicz, citizen of the Polish Republic of the Belarusian nationality': Autobiography and the nation-state in Poland, 1922-1939
  
  Kate Lebow (University of Oxford)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 15:00 - 'The End of Leadership?' - Prof. Karthik Ramanna
  Professor Karthik Ramanna (Blavatnik School of Government)
  Blavatnik School of Government Research Seminars Hilary Term 2017
• 17:00 - Understanding Zimbabwe: from Liberation to Authoritarianism
  Dr Sara Dorman (University of Edinburgh)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Friday 20 January 2017

• 17:00 - ‘Mobilizing Free China: mass lines, new deals, and the problem of legitimacy on early Cold War Taiwan’
  Tehyun Ma (University of Sheffield)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - History in English Criticism 1919-1961: Whig history and the mind of England
  Stefan Collini (University of Cambridge)
  The James Ford Lectures 2017 - Family and Empire: Kinship and British Colonialism in the East India Company Era, c. 1750-1850

Monday 23 January 2017

• 17:00 - SPECIAL LECTURE:‘The Scorpion’s Lash: Gender and the Making of an Imperial Anthropocene in Victorian Afghanistan’
  Antoinette Burton (Illinois University)
  Centre for Gender, Identity and Subjectivity Discussion Group (formerly Reading Group)
• 17:00 - Raising the Curtain: Revealing African movie-goers during colonialism
  Odile Goerg (Paris 7)
  African History & Politics Seminars

Tuesday 24 January 2017

• 11:00 - WORKSHOP: ‘Global and Comparative Feminisms in the long 19th century’
  Various Speakers
  Centre for Gender, Identity and Subjectivity Discussion Group (formerly Reading Group)
• 14:00 - Britain's Anglo-Indians: The Invisibility of Assimilation
  Rochelle Almeida (NYU)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Wednesday 25 January 2017

• 16:00 - The Continental Crisis of the Union: Southern Secession, Western Separatism
  Kevin Waite (University of Durham)
  American History Research Seminar
• 16:30 - Exit from democracy: Illiberal governance in Turkey
  Kerem Oktem (University of Graz), Karabekir Akkoyunlu (University of Graz, Austria)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
• 17:15 - The Culture of Naval Warfare c.1845-1945
  Nicholas Rodger (University of Oxford)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 26 January 2017

• 11:30 - The Panama Affair: Financial Scandal, Political Corruption, and the Rise of Modern Anti-Semitism
  Lisa Leff (American University)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 14:00 - Living without the IMF: Can Pakistan succeed?
  Rashid Amjad (Lahore School of Economics)
  Contemporary South Asia Seminars
• 15:00 - 'Respect and Discrimination' - Prof. Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, Aarhus University
  Prof. Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen (Aarhus University)
  Blavatnik School of Government Research Seminars Hilary Term 2017
• 17:00 - “Clean my Chinese wife”: Intimacy and identity politics of Nigerian migrants in Southern China
  Yu Qiu (University of Cambridge)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Friday 27 January 2017

• 17:00 - ‘Reform-oriented Sufi orders in South Asia: local and global connections’
  Moin Nizami (OxCIS)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - History in English Criticism 1919-1961: Scrutinizing the present phase of human history
  There will be a drinks reception in the North School of Examinations Schools following this lecture. Everyone is welcome to attend.
  Stefan Collini (University of Cambridge)
  The James Ford Lectures 2017 - Family and Empire: Kinship and British Colonialism in the East India Company Era, c. 1750-1850

Monday 30 January 2017

• 17:00 - The Comparative Study of Perpetrator Ideologies
  Dr Jonathan Leader Maynard (Oxford)
  Violence Studies Research Network
• 17:00 - Little Mogadishu: Eastleigh, Nairobi's Global Somali Hub
  Neil Carrier (University of Oxford)
  African History & Politics Seminars
• 17:00 - Select aspects of financial engineering during the financial crisis, in retrospect
  Andrew (Wong)
  Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM)

Tuesday 31 January 2017

• 14:00 - The Majewski Lecture: The Colloquy between Muhammad and Saytān: The 18th century Bangla Iblichnāmā of Garībullā
  Tony K. Stewart (Vanderbilt)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Wednesday 1 February 2017

• 17:00 - The authoritarian turn: The Western Balkans’ move towards EU membership and away from democracy
  Florian Bieber (University of Graz, Austria)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)

Thursday 2 February 2017

• 11:30 - Writing the History of Financial Scandals and Capitalism in the Interwar Period
  
  Martin Geyer (Maximilians-Universität München)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 14:00 - Fragmented Transitions: Growth, Mobility and Democracy in India
  Indrajit Roy (QEH, Oxford)
  Contemporary South Asia Seminars
• 15:00 - 'Public Anger, Business Power, and the Regulation of Finance in the UK and the US' - Prof. Pepper Culpepper
  Prof. Pepper Culpepper (Blavatnik School of Government)
  Blavatnik School of Government Research Seminars Hilary Term 2017
• 17:00 - Transnational Approaches to Post-emancipation Labor Regimes and their Consequences: From Venezuela to South Africa and Trinidad to Chicago, 1870-1940
  Lara Putnam (University of Pittsburgh)
  American History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - [Book launch] Writing a new history for South Sudan: whose history and for whom?
  Dr Douglas Johnson
  African Studies Seminar Series

Friday 3 February 2017

• 17:00 - ‘Bringing a girl from the village: domestic service and gender relations in post-colonial Africa’
  Sacha Hepburn (IHR, University of London)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - History in English Criticism 1919-1961: Science and capitalism as background
  Stefan Collini (University of Cambridge)
  The James Ford Lectures 2017 - Family and Empire: Kinship and British Colonialism in the East India Company Era, c. 1750-1850

Monday 6 February 2017

• 17:00 - Whose Peace? Local Ownership and UN Peace Operations
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Sarah von Billerbeck (University of Reading)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series
• 17:00 - The Authoritarian Origins of Well-Organised Opposition Parties: The Rise of Chadema in Tanzania
  Dan Paget (University of Oxford)
  African History & Politics Seminars

Tuesday 7 February 2017

• 11:30 - ‘“Something to Declare”: Travel and the Postcolonial Queer’
  Churnjeet Mahn (Strathclyde University)
  Centre for Gender, Identity and Subjectivity Discussion Group (formerly Reading Group)
• 14:00 - Postgraduate Student Presentations on South Asian History
  Various Speakers
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Wednesday 8 February 2017

• 17:00 - A Faustian pact? Selling the Rule of Law in South East Europe
  Damir Banović (University of Sarajevo), Mehmet Karli (Centre for International Studies, Oxford), Kalypso Nicolaidis (St Antony's College)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
• 17:15 - 1. Making the System Work: Incorporating Cultural Values in the formation of Roman Auxiliary Cavalry/ 2. “Not only in Judaea”: Josephus on Roman civil war in the Jewish War/ 3. Conscription and Marriage in the Army of Joseph II
  Haley Flagg (St Andrews), Ursula Westwood (University of Oxford), Ilya Berkovich (Ludwig Maximilians Universität Munich)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 9 February 2017

• 11:30 - The Murrays of the Border: the Story of an Irish Small House
  Peter Leary (University of Oxford)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 14:00 - Aspiration, Desire and the Joint Family in Pakistan
  Ammara Maqsood (University of Oxford)
  Contemporary South Asia Seminars
• 15:00 - 'The Power to Protect: Bargaining Power and Female Condom Use in Mozambique' - Dr Karlijn Morsink
  Karlijn Morsink (Blavatnik School of Government/Economics)
  Blavatnik School of Government Research Seminars Hilary Term 2017
• 17:00 - Youth Waithood, Forced Migration, and the Transnational Negotiation of “Fortress” Europe: Case Studies of Congolese Migrants
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Peter Kankonde Bukasa (University of the Witwatersrand and University of Notre Dame)
  African Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Lagos temporalities: Negotiating urban mobilities in an age of mobile telephony
  Naluwembe Binaisa (University College London)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Friday 10 February 2017

• 17:00 - ‘Rethinking American Empire’
  Tony Hopkins (University of Cambridge)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - History in English Criticism 1919-1961: Christianity, rationalism, and ambiguity
  Stefan Collini (University of Cambridge)
  The James Ford Lectures 2017 - Family and Empire: Kinship and British Colonialism in the East India Company Era, c. 1750-1850

Monday 13 February 2017

• 17:00 - Covenants Without the Sword? Comparing Prison Self-Governance Globally
  Dr David Scarbek (Kings College London)
  Violence Studies Research Network
• 17:00 - The Hisbah Islamic Police in Northern Nigeria
  Raufu Mustapha (University of Oxford)
  African History & Politics Seminars
• 17:00 - What does the FICC Standards Board do?
  Mark Yallop (FICC Markets Standards Board)
  Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM)

Tuesday 14 February 2017

• 12:30 - CGIS reading group: On the theme of ‘LGBTQ studies’.
  This session is kindly being chaired by Professor Dan Healey, Professor of Modern Russian History, St Antony's College. • Ann Cvetkovich, 'In the Archive of Lesbian Feelings’, in An archive of feelings : trauma, sexuality, and lesbian public cultures, (London, 2003), Chapter 7. • David M. Halperin, ‘Introduction: In Defense of Historicism’ in How to Do the History of Homosexuality (Chicago & London, 2002). • Charles E. Morris, ‘The Mourning After’, in Remembering the AIDS Quilt, edited by Charles E. Morris, (East Lansing, 2011), pp. xxxvi-lxix.
  Various Speakers
  Centre for Gender, Identity and Subjectivity Discussion Group (formerly Reading Group)
• 14:00 - Postgraduate Student Presentations on South Asian History
  Various Speakers
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Wednesday 15 February 2017

• 17:00 - Does IMF conditionality lead to political illiberalism? A comparative South East European perspective
  In association with PEFM
  Merih Angin (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)

Thursday 16 February 2017

• 11:30 - Towards a history of European Terrorism; Towards a history of European Terrorism; c.1880-2016
  Tim Wilson (St Andrew’s)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 12:30 - Social constraints and the decision to leave: Emigration from Greece at times of crisis
  Light lunch provided
  Manolis Pratsinakis (University of Macedonia)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
• 14:00 - Conferencing the International: Making India in London during the Round Table Conferences, 1930-32
  Dr Stephen Legg (University of Nottingham)
  Contemporary South Asia Seminars
• 15:00 - 'Global Informality' - Prof. Alena Ledeneva, UCL
  Prof. Alena Ledeneva (University College London)
  Blavatnik School of Government Research Seminars Hilary Term 2017
• 17:00 - Same Love: A Kenyan Gay Music Video as an African Queer Imaginary
  Dr Adriaan Van Klinken (University of Leeds)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Friday 17 February 2017

• 17:00 - ‘At the edge of empires: the modern nation, ex-colonial milieu and transnationalism of the Chinese in Port of Spain, Trinidad, from the 1930s to the 1960s’
  Setsuko Sonoda (University of Hyogo)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - History in English Criticism 1919-1961: The long Industrial Revolution
  Stefan Collini (University of Cambridge)
  The James Ford Lectures 2017 - Family and Empire: Kinship and British Colonialism in the East India Company Era, c. 1750-1850

Monday 20 February 2017

• 17:00 - Ideology and Strategy: Understanding the Relationship Between Politics and Economy in Sudan
  Laura Mann (LSE)
  African History & Politics Seminars
• 17:00 - Dirty Gold: How Activism Transformed the Jewelry Industry
  Dr Michael Bloomfield (University of Bath)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series

Tuesday 21 February 2017

• 11:30 - ‘Mothers on the Move: Gender, Slavery, Law, and Space in Nineteenth-Century Cuba’
  Camillia Cowling (University of Warwick)
  Centre for Gender, Identity and Subjectivity Discussion Group (formerly Reading Group)
• 14:00 - Hindu Militarism, P.D. Tandon and the Politics of Scale in 1940s Uttar Pradesh
  William Gould (Leeds)
  Modern South Asia Seminar
• 16:00 - The Material of Race: How Emancipation Transformed Early American Jews
  Laura Leibmann (Reed College)
  American History Research Seminar

Wednesday 22 February 2017

• 17:15 - From Defeat to Triumph and then Oblivion: Free French Forces at Stake during World War II
  Guillaume Piketty (Sciences Po)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 23 February 2017

• 11:30 - A twentieth-century European Peasant War?: The ‘Green Cadres’ in Austria-Hungary and its successors, 1917-1945
  Jakub Beneš (University of Oxford)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 14:00 - Unfixed land: Studying India from the Ground Up
  Nikita Sud (University of Oxford)
  Contemporary South Asia Seminars
• 15:00 - 'From Clientelism to Corruption' - Prof. Simona Piattoni, University of Trento
  Prof Simona Piattoni (University of Trento)
  Blavatnik School of Government Research Seminars Hilary Term 2017
• 17:00 - Lagos Girl Power: Performing Postfeminism in Nigeria
  Dr Simidele Dosekun (University of Sussex)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Friday 24 February 2017

• 17:00 - ‘From the periphery to oblivion’
  John Darwin (Nuffield College, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - History in English Criticism 1919-1961: Literary history as cultural history
  Stefan Collini (University of Cambridge)
  The James Ford Lectures 2017 - Family and Empire: Kinship and British Colonialism in the East India Company Era, c. 1750-1850

Monday 27 February 2017

• 17:00 - Reputation-Building of Emergent ODA Donors from Europe and Latin America
  Luciana Alexandra Ghica (University of Bucharest)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series
• 17:00 - Representations of Violence in Military Memoir: A Critical Cognitive Linguistic Approach
  Matthew Voice (Wolfson Scholar and PhD Candidate at the University of Sheffield)
  Violence Studies Research Network
• 17:00 - Politics in Burkina Faso (TBC)
  Richard Banegas (Sciences Po Paris)
  African History & Politics Seminars
• 17:00 - Aspects of the ECB’s monetary policy: State-of-play and future prospects
  Iannis Mourmouras (Bank of Greece)
  Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM)

Tuesday 28 February 2017

• 11:30 - The Limits of “White slavery”: Migration, anti-alienism, and the dominant discourses of trafficking in turn-of-the-century England’
  Rachael Atwood (Westminster University)
  Centre for Gender, Identity and Subjectivity Discussion Group (formerly Reading Group)
• 14:00 - A Dreadful Scourge: Comprehending Cholera in Early Nineteenth Century India
  Mark Harrison (Green Templeton)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Wednesday 1 March 2017

• 17:00 - Assessing varieties of populism: From Europe to Asia
  Yaprak Gursoy (St Antony's College, Oxford), Michael Freeden (Mansfield College, Oxford)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)

Thursday 2 March 2017

• 11:30 - A Radicalisation of 'Islam de France' or an Islamisation of French Radicals: a Scholarly Debate Over a New Social Phenomenon
  Aurelie Daher (University of Oxford)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 14:00 - Gujarat 2002 in the Making of India's Metropolitan Dream
  Amrita Shah (Centre for Contemporary Studies, Indian Institute of Science)
  Contemporary South Asia Seminars
• 15:00 - 'Explaining the Emergence of Democratic Competition: Lessons from India' - Dr Maya Tudor
  Maya Tudor (BSG, Oxford)
  Blavatnik School of Government Research Seminars Hilary Term 2017
• 17:00 - Anthropology as Vulnerology? Reading Possibility into the City's Sutures
  Filip De Boeck (University of Leuven (Belgium))
  African Studies Seminar Series

Friday 3 March 2017

• 10:30 - Global and Imperial History graduate student research presentations (D.Phil.)
  Various Speakers
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Witness to Paradise: Photojournalism in Kashmir's Present, 1986-2016
  Please note this special talk will be held at 5 p.m. on a Friday in the Pavilion Room, St Antony’s College.
  Sanjay Kak (Independent Film-Maker and Photographer)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Tuesday 7 March 2017

• 11:30 - Special reading group for International Women’s Day 2017
  • Professor Lyndal Roper will be discussing: Natalie Zemon Davis ‘Women on Top’ in Society and Culture in Early Modern France (Stanford, 1975), pp. 124-51. • Professor Ruth Harris will be discussing: Judith Walkowitz, ‘Jack the Ripper and the myth of male violence’, Feminist Studies, vol 8 , 1982, pp. 542-78. • Dr Rachel Moss will be discussing: Judith M. Bennett ‘Medievalism and Feminism’ Speculum, vol. 68, no. 2, 1993, pp. 309–331.
  Various Speakers
  Centre for Gender, Identity and Subjectivity Discussion Group (formerly Reading Group)
• 14:00 - The Unmaking of an Imperial Army: The Indian Army in World War II
  Please note this seminar will be held in the Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
  Tarak Barkawi (LSE, London)
  Modern South Asia Seminar
• 16:00 - An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873
  Ben Madley (UCLA)
  American History Research Seminar

Wednesday 8 March 2017

• 17:00 - Illiberalism and post-ideology party politics in South East Europe
  Othon Anastasakis (St Antony's College, University of Oxford), Adis Merdzanovic (St Antony’s College, Oxford)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
• 17:15 - Military History and Teaching War
  Jennie Kiesling (US Military Academy, West Point)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 9 March 2017

• 11:30 - ‘Domestic drudgery will be a thing of the past’ Feminist Dreams of Collectivised Housework and What Happened to the Servants
  Laura Schwartz (Warwick University)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 14:00 - Queer, Leaking, and Unruly Bodies: Hindu Right-Wing Women and the Discursive Performance of Violence
  Akanksha Mehta (SOAS, London)
  Contemporary South Asia Seminars
• 15:00 - 'Corruption in Public Administration: An Anthropological Perspective' - Prof. Davide Torsello, Central European University
  Prof. Davide Torsello (Central European University)
  Blavatnik School of Government Research Seminars Hilary Term 2017
• 17:00 - Decolonial Citizenship: African Women’s Political Practices in Contested Spaces
  Dr Annette Joseph-Gabriel (University of Arizona )
  African Studies Seminar Series

Friday 10 March 2017

• 11:30 - Global and Imperial History graduate student research presentations (M.St.)
  Various Speakers
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Wednesday 15 March 2017

• 09:15 - The New Politics of Authoritarianism
  Various Speakers
• 17:30 - The end of global cooperation? A debate on global governance in the emerging world order
  Dr Carlos Lopes (Oxford Martin School), Achim Steiner (Oxford Martin School), Professor Karthik Ramanna (Blavatnik School of Government), Professor Ngaire Woods (Dean, Blavatnik School of Government)

Thursday 16 March 2017

• 18:00 - A life in politics: Lord Heseltine in conversation with Peter Hennessy
  The Rt Hon Lord Michael Heseltine CH, Peter Hennessy

Wednesday 22 March 2017

• 17:00 - Greece and the Euro Zone: The IMF perspective
  Poul Thomsen (International Monetary Fund)
  Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM)

Sunday 26 March 2017

• 16:00 - The well tempered city: the future of urban life
  Jonathan Rose

Saturday 22 April 2017

• 14:00 - Equality, Catastrophe, and the Great Disequalization
  Professor Darrin McMahon (Dartmouth College)

Sunday 23 April 2017

• 18:00 - The Maison française d'Oxford presents the ÉLECTIONS PRÉSIDENTIELLES
  Various Speakers

Monday 24 April 2017

• 17:00 - Battered but not Broken: Women's Resistance to Marital Violence in Post-Independence Ireland, 1922-1965
  Dr Cara Diver (Kings College London)
  Violence Studies Research Network
• 17:00 - Transnational Actors and the State in the Sino-Russian and Sino-American Contexts
  Yuexin Rachel Lin (National University of Singapore), Pete Millwood (University of Oxford)
  International History of East Asia Seminar
• 17:00 - Is the world economy gaining momentum?
  Oya Celesun (IMF)
  Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM)

Tuesday 25 April 2017

• 10:00 - From Romans exodus to Anglo-Saxon conversions (tbc)
  Professor Bryan Ward-Perkins (Trinity College)
  Europaeum: Before War, After War
• 11:00 - Reporting from the front: Turkey’s constitutional referendum of 16 April
  Stefan Szwed (International Observer of the Turkish Referendum)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
• 14:00 - An Eminent Victorian: Gandhi and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy in the 19th century
  Dilip Menon (Witswatersrand)
  Modern South Asia Seminar
• 14:00 - An Eminent Victorian: Gandhi and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy in the 19th century
  Dilip Menon (Witswatersrand)
  Modern South Asia Seminar
• 16:00 - Merchants of Death? The Nye Commission, the Business of War, and the Politics of Memory’
  Christopher Capozzola (MIT)
  American History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Enemies of the People: defending the independence of the Judges. A little too late and a lot too little?
  ***UPDATE*** ED MILIBAND MP WILL NO LONGER BE SPEAKING AT THIS SEMINAR***
  Lord Falconer (former Lord Chancellor), Baroness Helena Kennedy (Principal, Mansfield College), Professor Graham Gee (University of Sheffield)
• 17:00 - Online dynamics of the far-right and the far-left in Greece
  Lamprini Rori (St Antony’s College, Oxford)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)

Thursday 27 April 2017

• 17:00 - How to Rig an Election: Reflections on Ten Years of Studying Democracy
  Nic Cheeseman
  African Studies Seminar Series

Monday 1 May 2017

• 17:00 - Facing the pensions challenge: Lessons from Australia
  Nicholas Morris (University of New South Wales, Sydney)
  Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM)
• 17:00 - Turkey's new political regime in comparative perspective
  Koray Caliskan (Boğaziçi University)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
• 17:00 - History, legitimacy and Renamo’s return to arms in central Mozambique
  Justin Pearce (University of Cambridge)
  African History & Politics Seminars

Tuesday 2 May 2017

• 10:00 - Remembering and Forgetting Luther in the Luther Year
  Professor Lyndal Roper (Oriel College)
  Europaeum: Before War, After War
• 11:30 - ‘Keeping House: Women and the Culture of Domestic Service in Post-Colonial Africa’
  Sacha Hepburn
  Centre for Gender, Identity and Subjectivity Discussion Group (formerly Reading Group)
• 14:00 - Title TBC
  Tim Harper (Cambridge)
  Modern South Asia Seminar
• 16:00 - ‘Legitimizing American history in Britain: roads taken and not taken’
  Michael Heale (Lancaster)
  American History Research Seminar

Wednesday 3 May 2017

• 17:00 - Nihilism in the 21st Century: A Conversation with Pankaj Mishra, Shruti Kapila and David Priestland
  TBA
  Rethinking the Contemporary: The World since the Cold War
• 17:15 - Armies and Communities in England 1660-1714
  Hannah Smith (University of Oxford)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 4 May 2017

• 17:00 - An Uncertain Age: The Politics of Manhood in Kenya
  Paul Ocobock (Notre Dame)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Monday 8 May 2017

• 17:00 - Peace for whom? Legacies of gender based violence in Peru
  Dr Jelke Boesten (Kings College London)
  Violence Studies Research Network
• 17:00 - Book launch for “After rape: violence, justice and social harmony in Uganda”
  Holly Porter (LSE)
  African History & Politics Seminars

Tuesday 9 May 2017

• 10:00 - European Union, c. 1000 AD
  Dr Conrad Leyser (Worcester College)
  Europaeum: Before War, After War
• 14:00 - The Spectral Wound: Sexual Violence, Public Memories and the Bangladesh War of 1971
  Nayanika Mookheerjee (Durham)
  Modern South Asia Seminar
• 16:00 - America and the Treaty of Versailles’
  Professor Margaret MacMillan (St Antony’s)
  American History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Sectarianization: Mapping the New Politics of the Middle East | Book Launch
  Dr Nader Hashemi (University of Denver), Danny Postel (Northwestern University), Dr Leïla Vignal (University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures
• 20:00 - Refugees as Political Beings? Lecture and book launch of ''Voting Rights of Refugees' (Cambridge University Press, 2017)'
  All are welcome!
  Dr. Reveun (Ruvi) Ziegler (University of Reading), Professor Guy Goodwin-Gill

Thursday 11 May 2017

• 17:00 - Laughing about Corruption in Chinese-Ethiopian Encounters
  Miriam Driessen (University of Oxford)
  African Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Book Launch: Between Military Rule and Democracy
  Yaprak Gursoy (St Antony's College, Oxford), Laurence Whitehead (Nuffield College, Oxford), Stathis Kalyvas (Yale University)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)

Friday 12 May 2017

• 17:00 - DACRE Lecture 2017: The Beginning of a Misunderstanding? Hugh Trevor-Roper and the making of Post-war Europe
  Martin Conway (Balliol College)

Monday 15 May 2017

• 17:00 - Bureaucrats and chiefs : the making of certificates of origin in Nigeria
  Laurent Fourchard (Sciences Po)
  African History & Politics Seminars
• 17:00 - Public debt in advanced countries: problems and solutions
  Carlo Cottarelli (Executive Director for Italy)
  Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM)

Tuesday 16 May 2017

• 09:30 - You looking at me, looking at you: Brexit Britain and the World
  Registration required.
  Various Speakers
  Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM)
• 10:00 - Deal or No Deal: does Brexit make any difference? The View from the East
  Dr Peter Frankopan (Worcester College)
  Europaeum: Before War, After War
• 11:30 - DPhil Event: To celebrate and discuss in-progress DPhils in gender and women’s history
  Please register now for this event to support students in the field and share your ideas and insights - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-women-and-culture-dphil-event-tickets-34405686334
  Maurice Casey, Fanny Louvier, Ashley Garber
  Centre for Gender, Identity and Subjectivity Discussion Group (formerly Reading Group)
• 14:00 - India Conquered: The British Raj and the Chaos of Empire’
  Jon Wilson (King's College London)
  Modern South Asia Seminar
• 17:00 - Public Lecture by Kenneth Rogoff, Sanjaya Lall Visiting Professor 2017
  All are very welcome to attend! Please register at the following link to confirm your place: kennethrogofflecture.eventbrite.co.uk
  Kenneth Rogoff (Harvard University)

Wednesday 17 May 2017

• 17:00 - ‘The Monument and the Sphinx: Washington, Jefferson, and the methodological challenges of the obvious’
  Frank Cogliano (Edinburgh)
  American History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Sattelzeit as Endzeit? Making Sense of Catastrophic Change in the Nineteenth Century
  Professor Joachim Whaley (Cambridge)
  Crisis, Extremes and Apocalypse Research Network
• 17:15 - New Work in Progress: Military-Civil Relations 1800-1918
  Vittoria Princi (University of Oxford), Terrance Cudbird (University of Oxford)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 18 May 2017

• 09:30 - Using anthropological approaches to inform and analyse policies
  Dr Rachel Bray (Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford)
  Social Policy and Intervention - Departmental Colloquium
• 12:00 - 'Women, War and a New Paradigm of Power'
  Zahira Kamal, Scilla Elworthy, Rama Mani
• 17:00 - Bars, Branches, Stereos and Choppers: Innovation in Election Campaign Technologies in Tanzania
  Dan Paget (University of Oxford)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Friday 19 May 2017

• 12:00 - Syrian refugees in Turkey: Reception, economy, and governance
  Please bring brownbag lunch
  Sebnem Koser Akcapar (Koç University, Istanbul), Fulya Memisoglu (Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford), Eren Korkmaz (International Migration Institute, Oxford), A. Zafer Sagiroglu (Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University), Sezin Tuna (Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)

Monday 22 May 2017

• 17:00 - Does this summer's Rwandan election matter?
  Will Jones (Royal Holloway)
  African History & Politics Seminars
• 17:00 - Technology and the future of the labour market
  Daniel Susskind (Balliol College, Oxford)
  Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM)

Tuesday 23 May 2017

• 10:00 - Mid-20th century Britain – in or out of Europe ?
  Professor Norman Davies (St Antony’s College)
  Europaeum: Before War, After War
• 14:00 - Scribes, ‘Paper and the Formation of the colonial State in North India, 1780-1840
  Hayden Bellenoit (United States Naval Academy)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Wednesday 24 May 2017

• 17:00 - Majoritarian futures in Europe and beyond
  SEESOX Annual Lecture
  Ivan Krastev (Centre for Liberal Strategies, Bulgaria)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
• 17:00 - British and French deprivation policies as an instance of renationalisation of citizenship
  Émilien Fargues (Sciences Po, Paris)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 25 May 2017

• 17:00 - From the Zariba to the Museum: Violence, Globalisation and Material Culture in Nineteenth Century South Sudan
  Zoe Cormack (University of Oxford)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Friday 26 May 2017

• 17:00 - St Hilda's Feminist Salon
  Fatou Wurie (Oxford Women in Politics)
  St Hilda's College Feminist Salon

Monday 29 May 2017

• 17:00 - The materiality of voting: How to revisit African election
  Sandrine Perrot (Sciences Po)
  African History & Politics Seminars

Tuesday 30 May 2017

• 10:00 - Elizabeth I and the forging of an English identity
  Professor Susan Doran (Jesus College)
  Europaeum: Before War, After War
• 14:00 - Jamal al-din al-Afghani and Syed Ahmad Khan: Reform, Rivalry, and Heresy in late 19th-century India’
  Teena Purohit (Boston)
  Modern South Asia Seminar
• 16:00 - ‘That Lady on the Hill: examining American liberalism at a crossroads in the 1970s’
  Brian Balogh (Virginia)
  American History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Fanon Transformed? The New Writings
  TBA
  Rethinking the Contemporary: The World since the Cold War
• 17:00 - ‘Fanon Transformed? The New Writings’
  Robert Young (New York University)

Wednesday 31 May 2017

• 17:00 - Escalation in the British Army's War on the IRA, 1971-72
  Dr Huw Bennett (Cardiff University)
  Violence Studies Research Network
• 17:15 - Networks of Knowledge Exchange in the Eighteenth Century British Army
  Huw Davies (King’s College London)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 1 June 2017

• 10:15 - Ideological and political radicalisation in contemporary western democracies: Cross-theoretical and empirical perspectives
  Registration required
  Othon Anastasakis (St Antony's College, University of Oxford), Lamprini Rori (St Antony’s College, Oxford), Dr Jonathan Leader Maynard (Oxford), Dr Andrea Ruggeri (University of Oxford), Stefano Costalli (University of Florence), Barry Richards (Bournemouth University), Michael Freeden (Mansfield College, Oxford), César Colino (St Antony’s College, Oxford), Catherine de Vries (University of Essex), Vassiliki Georgiadou (Panteion University), Anastasia Kafe (Panteion University), Spyros Kosmidis (Lincoln College), Michael Biggs (St Cross College), Dr Elias Dinas (Brasenose College), David Asker (University of Oxford), Ben O'Loughlin (Royal Holloway), Stathis Kalyvas (All Souls College, Oxford)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
• 17:00 - FASCISM, FAKE NEWS, AND THE NATURE OF SOCIAL EXTREMOPHILIA
  Professor Luciano Floridi (Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information, University of Oxford))
  Crisis, Extremes and Apocalypse Research Network
• 17:00 - The Height, Depth and Width of the Left in Latin America: A Historical Perspective
  Paulo Drinot (University College London)
  Latin American Centre Seminars and Events

Friday 2 June 2017

• 13:00 - 'Sir Robert Hart, Ireland’s imperial mandarin: the most influential foreigner in Qing China'
  Mark O’Neill (Independent Scholar)
• 17:00 - Populism as a Global Form: A Roundtable Conversation
  Saeed Naqvi (Foreign Correspondent and Author), Akeel Bilgrami (Columbia ), Shruti Kapila (Cambridge)
  Rethinking the Contemporary: The World since the Cold War
• 17:00 - How can world peace be organised?
  Alex Bellamy (University of Queensland)

Monday 5 June 2017

• 12:00 - 'Out of Bounds': Children, Gang Culture, and the Experience of Chicago's Spaces, 1910-1930
  Oenone Kubie (St. Cross College Oxford )
  American History Research Seminar
• 16:00 - 'An age old problem? Exploring Britain’s new wealth divides'
  Conor D'Arcy (Resolution Foundation), Laura Gardiner (Resolution Foundation), Professor John Muellbauer (Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School), Professor Brian Nolan (Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School), The Rt Hon. the Lord Willetts (Resolution Foundation)
• 17:00 - Sectarian Violence: A Junk Category of Analysis?
  Dr Tim Wilson (St Andrews)
  Violence Studies Research Network
• 17:00 - The Dismissal of a Teacher and Academic Freedom: An Annal of early Calcutta and its Echoes
  TBA
• 17:00 - Education, inequality and institutions: evidence from international assessments 1995-2015
  Dr Robin Shields (University of Bath)
  Department of Education Public Seminars
• 17:00 - The Dismissal of a Teacher and Academic Freedom: An Annal of early Calcutta and its Echoes
  Please note that this special talk, organised with the Department for International Development and the Free Speech Debate Project, will be held at 5 p.m. on a Monday in the Pavilion Room, St Antony’s College.
  Rudrangshu Mukherjee (Ashoka)
  Modern South Asia Seminar
• 17:00 - Between Historiography and literature: "Gershom Sholem's intellectual biography"
  Dr Amir Engel (Hebrew University)
  Crisis, Extremes and Apocalypse Research Network
• 17:00 - The changing roles of Central Banks
  Charles Goodhart (London School of Economics)
  Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM)

Tuesday 6 June 2017

• 10:00 - English exceptionalism and the road to Brexit 2016
  Dr Paul Flather (Mansfield College)
  Europaeum: Before War, After War
• 12:30 - Workshop: Crisis of Meaning and Political Theology
  Various Speakers
  Crisis, Extremes and Apocalypse Research Network
• 12:30 - An exposé of the Asset Management industry
  Light lunch provided
  Ron Bird (University of Technology Sydney)
  Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM)
• 13:45 - European Security Post-Brexit
  Dr Jamie Shea (NATO)
• 13:45 - European Security post-Brexit, by Dr Jamie Shea, Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges at NATO
  Dr Jamie Shea (NATO)
• 14:00 - The Untouchable Citizen
  Jason Keith Fernandes (Lisbon)
  Modern South Asia Seminar
• 16:00 - ‘Huey Long, the “little man” and the Great Depression’
  Daniel Scroop (Glasgow)
  American History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Religious ideas and cultures of violence: the case of Kenya's violent Islamists
  Ngala Chome (Durham)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series
• 17:00 - Want $5million to save the world? Global Challenges Prize 2017 Information session
  Dr Thomas Hale (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford), Malini Mehra (GLOBE International)
• 17:30 - Book launch: “The End of Silence: Accounts of the 1965 Genocide in Indonesia” by Soe Tjen Marching
  Soe Tjen Marching

Thursday 8 June 2017

• 17:00 - Olof Palme Lecture 2017: Presence and social obligation: an essay on the share
  Professor James Ferguson (Stanford University)
  Olof Palme Lectures

Friday 9 June 2017

• 17:30 - Does deterrence work in cyberspace?
  Professor Joseph Nye

Monday 12 June 2017

• 12:00 - 'Too Much Football without a Helmet': Gerald Ford, Sport, and Image Politics
  Rivers Gambrell (Kellogg College Oxford )
  American History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Economic and financial challenges in South East Europe
  In association with the Political Economy of Financial Markets programme (PEFM)
  Gent Sejko (Governor, Bank of Albania)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)

Tuesday 13 June 2017

• 10:00 - France and Britain in the Age of Revolution: Rome v Carthage?
  Professor Michael Broers (Lady Margaret Hall))
  Europaeum: Before War, After War
• 10:00 - Early Career Conference: Rethinking Crisis
  Keynote: Professor Simon Glendinning (LSE)
  Crisis, Extremes and Apocalypse Research Network
• 11:30 - on ‘Through Curtains and Lattice Screens: Female Scholars and Poets in Mughal India’
  Richard Williams
  Centre for Gender, Identity and Subjectivity Discussion Group (formerly Reading Group)

Wednesday 14 June 2017

• 17:15 - British Naval Contracting 1815-1860: from Contractor State to Laissez-Faire State?
  Martin Wilcox (University of Hull)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 15 June 2017

• 17:00 - St Hilda's Feminist Salon
  Jessica Lynn
  St Hilda's College Feminist Salon
• 18:00 - Fighting racism from Trump to Oxford?
  Free, but booking essential; refreshments available; all welcome
  Various Speakers

Monday 19 June 2017

• 08:30 - Is Sharing Economy an opportunity space for Transformation to Sustainability (T2S) in cities? Empirical studies from EU, China and North America
  Dr Friederike Otto (University of Oxford Environmental Change Institute), Dr Thomas Thornton (University of Oxford, Environmental Change Institute), Dr Tim Schwanen (Transport Studies Unit, University of Oxford), Dr Yuge Ma (Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford), Dr Vanessa Timmer (One Earth), Professor Ke Rong (Institute of Economics, Tsinghua University), Professor Yong Wang (Institute of Economics, Tsinghua University), Dr Diana Mangalagiu (Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford), Dr Brendan Doody (Transport Studies Unit, University of Oxford)
• 08:30 - Challenges of Government Conference 2017: Bridging the Gap
  Various Speakers
• 13:00 - Who Gets the Credit? News-Gathering Competition and Political Accountability
  TBA

Wednesday 21 June 2017

• 12:30 - Bilateral and regional trade agreements: A case for economic reform?
  Light lunch provided
  Paul Gretton (The Australian National University)
  Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM)

Monday 4 September 2017

• 10:30 - Evidence in a post-truth world
  Professor Trish Greenhalgh (University of Oxford)
  Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences Seminars

Monday 11 September 2017

• 18:15 - Evidence and policymaking
  Nick Fahy (University of Oxford)
  Evidence-Based Health Care Programme

Monday 9 October 2017

• 13:00 - Multidimensional Poverty in Measurement and Policy
  Sandwich lunch available on a first come, first served basis.
  Prof John Hammock (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative), Dr Bilal Malaeb (Institute of Global Affairs, London School of Economics and Political Science)
  Archive: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Real estate and the great crisis: Lessons for macro-prudential policy
  John Duca (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas)
  Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM)

Tuesday 10 October 2017

• 14:00 - The Age of Fasad: Jihad, Piety and Liturgical Islam in the Indian Ocean (1500-1750)
  Yasser Arafath (Delhi)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Wednesday 11 October 2017

• 13:00 - Mobile phones and the changing mobility practices of stretched families in sub-Saharan Africa
  Gina Porter (Durham University)
  Technology and Mobilities in Africa
• 17:00 - National Wealth approach to financial stability
  Olivier Frecaut (IMF)
  Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM)

Thursday 12 October 2017

• 17:00 - Ndinga i Sinsu: A Quest for Kongo Art
  Barbaro Martinez-Ruiz (Stanford)
  African Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Lessons from Empire: the First Hispanists in the United States, 1820-1880
  Ivan Jacsić (Stanford)
  American History Research Seminar

Friday 13 October 2017

• 12:15 - Land and food insecurity in relation to livelihood and land use change of the Maasai
  Lilian Looloitai (Managing Director of the NGO CORDS Limited (Community Research and Development Services), in northern Tanzania)
  Environmental Change Institute
• 16:00 - 'The British World and the Arid World'
  Robert Fletcher (Warwick)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Book launch: 'Post Truth: The War on Truth and How to Fight Back'
  Matthew D'Ancona (Journalist)
  Re-Engaging Truth Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Israel under Siege: The politics of Insecurity and the Rise of the Israeli Neo-Revisionist Right
  Raffaella Del Sarto (SAIS)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series

Monday 16 October 2017

• 13:00 - Multidimensional Impact Evaluation: The Case of WINGS in Uganda
  A sandwich lunch is available on a first come, first served basis.
  Dr Bilal Malaeb (Institute of Global Affairs, London School of Economics and Political Science)
  Archive: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Symbolic Insult in Diplomacy: a subtle game of diplomatic slap
  Professor Alisher Faizullaev (Former Ambassador of Uzbekistan to the United Kingdom)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series

Tuesday 17 October 2017

• 14:00 - India's Search for Prosperity: Is Modi on the Right Track?
  Vijay Joshi (Merton College)
  Modern South Asia Seminar
• 16:00 - How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Du Bois, the Problem Soul and the Nature of Religion
  Anthony Pinn (Rice)
  American History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Playing with Fire: Heat and Light in the Environmental History of Modern South Asia
  Professor David Arnold (University of Warwick)
  Oxford Transnational and Global History Seminar
• 17:00 - Historicising African Nationalism: 'The Long History of Ethnicity and Nationhood Reconsidered'
  Miles Larmer
• 17:30 - Aspects of Conservatism: Maurice Glasman - The Beauty of Conservatism
  Maurice Glasman, Baron Glasman (London Metropolitan University)
  Aspects of Conservatism

Wednesday 18 October 2017

• 16:15 - Big History: Humans and their Environment
  Sir Crispen Tickell (University of Oxford)
  ECI Big Ideas Seminar
• 17:15 - The British Fiasco in Norway 1940
  Sir John Kiszely
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 19 October 2017

• 17:00 - Words and Deeds: African Migrants in Europe
  Michael Jackson (Harvard)
  African Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - 'From Poverty to Life Chances and back to Destitution'
  Frank Field MP
• 17:30 - Astor Lecture 2017: Agriculture, Technology and Economic Development
  Professor Christopher Udry (Northwestern University)
  ODID Special Lectures & Seminars

Friday 20 October 2017

• 16:00 - 'The Adamsons, Born Free and the late colonial era: images that changed the animal world'
  William Beinart (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The Islamic Enlightenment: The Modern Struggle between Faith and Reason
  Christopher de Bellaigue
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series
• 17:00 - What happened to academic knowledge during the Brexit debate?
  Stephen Booth (Open Europe), Dr Brigid Fowler (Hansard Society), Lindsay Mackie (New Weather Institute)
  Re-Engaging Truth Seminar Series

Monday 23 October 2017

• 13:00 - The global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) and other global indices
  A sandwich lunch is available on a first come, first served basis.
  Professor Sabina Alkire (University of Oxford)
  Archive: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Book Launch: In Search of the Elusive Zimbabwean Dream: An Autobiography of Thought
  Arthur Mutambara (Former Deputy Prime Minister, Zimbabwe)
  African History & Politics Seminars

Tuesday 24 October 2017

• 14:00 - Sepia Paise: The Politics and Poetics of Art and Photography in South Asia and Beyond
  Natasha Eaton (University College London)
  Modern South Asia Seminar
• 16:00 - “Feminist Sources, Punk Methods: US Riot Grrrls in the History of Teenage Female Sexuality”
  Charlie Jeffries (Keble)
  American History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Transnational and Global History Post-Graduate Roundtable
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Transnational and Global History Seminar
• 17:00 - The Ethics of Asymmetric Conflict: A Panel Discussion
  Various Speakers
• 17:00 - The Ethics of Asymmetric Conflict: A Panel Discussion
  Contact: Rachel.Kowalski@History.ox.ac.uk www.violencestudiesoxford.com @Oxford_SSV
  Dr Jack McDonald (Teaching fellow, Department of War Studies, King’s College London), Rachel Kowalski (DPhil Candidate, History Faculty, The University of Oxford), Professor Michael Gross (Professor & Head of the School of Political Science, University of Haifa, Israel)
  Violence Studies Research Network

Wednesday 25 October 2017

• 12:30 - Islamo-liberal iterations in Turkey: The lifecycle of a political alliance
  Light lunch provided
  Nora Fisher Onar (Bahçeşehir University, Istanbul)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
• 13:00 - Materialities in the lives of Malian urban refugees in Burkina Faso: uses and understandings of refugee biometric ID cards
  Nora Bardelli (University of Oxford)
  Technology and Mobilities in Africa
• 16:15 - Transformation for All - Implementing the Agenda 2030 in Germany from a Practical Policy Perspective
  Dr. Joerg Mayer-Ries
  ECI Big Ideas Seminar

Thursday 26 October 2017

• 17:00 - China and Africa: a Diplomatic Perspective
  Ambassador Jianhua Zhong, Yuzhou Sun (University of Oxford)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Friday 27 October 2017

• 09:00 - Workshop: New Perspectives on Political Economy of the Middle East
  Various Speakers
• 16:00 - 'Empire Forestry, famines and communities; Eastern India in the nineteenth and twentieth century'
  Vinita Damodaran (Sussex)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - What role should academics play in public knowledge creation: should they be advocates and policymakers?
  Ceri Thomas (University of Oxford), Professor Danny Dorling (University of Oxford), Annette Idler (Blavatnik School of Government), Ruth Mayne (Oxfam)
  Re-Engaging Truth Seminar Series

Monday 30 October 2017

• 13:00 - Walls of glass: Measuring deprivation in social participation
  A sandwich lunch will be available on a first come, first served basis.
  Dr Nicolai Suppa (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative)
  Archive: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Politics, ideology and authoritarian state-making in socialist Tanzania
  George Roberts (University of Cambridge)
  African History & Politics Seminars

Tuesday 31 October 2017

• 11:30 - ‘The Women's Liberation movement’
  Various Speakers
  Centre for Gender, Identity and Subjectivity Discussion Group (formerly Reading Group)
• 14:00 - Parallel Governance and Political Order in Contested Territory: Evidence from the Indo-Naga Ceasefire
  Rajesh Venugopal (London School of Economics)
  Modern South Asia Seminar
• 16:00 - The Birth of the American Empire: The Articles of Confederation and the Road to the Constitution
  George Van Cleve (Seattle University School of Law)
  American History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Astor Visiting Lecturership: 'Is There a Global History of Humanitarianism?'
  Jeremy Adelman (Princeton University)

Wednesday 1 November 2017

• 13:00 - Of Hotspots and Agents of Connectivity. Exploring Urban-Rural Interactions in and around Kinshasa’s Phonie Cabins
  Katrien Pype (University of Leuven & University of Birmingham)
  Technology and Mobilities in Africa
• 17:00 - Rohingya Humanitarian Crisis: Bangladesh Response
  Md. Shahidul Haque (Foreign Secretary, Government of Bangladesh)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series
• 17:15 - Capital connections: The Dutch fiscal-naval state in comparative perspective (17th-18th centuries)
  Pepijn Brandon (International Institute of Social History, NL)
  History of War Seminar Series
• 17:30 - Aspects of Conservatism: Paul Faulkner - Trust in Government
  Please note the change of room - the event will now be held in Seminar Room 2, Blavatnik School of Government
  Paul Faulkner (University of Sheffield)
  Aspects of Conservatism

Thursday 2 November 2017

• 14:00 - 'God knows this is a chronic, protracted situation': The Myanmar military's war on IDPs in Kachin and northern Shan states
  David Baulk (Fortify Rights), Kai Htang Lashi (Kachin National Organisation), Mandy Sadan (School of Oriental and African Studies)
• 17:00 - Astor Lecture 2017: ‘Toward a Post-Mortem of the African Revolution: Rethinking the Global Sixties’
  Jean Allman (Washington)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Friday 3 November 2017

• 14:00 - Mining and Environmental Change in African History
  Gavin Bridge (Durham), Deborah Bryceson (Edinburgh), Iva Peša (Oxford), Corey Ross (Birmingham)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Governing Divided Egypt
  Robert Springborg (King's College, London)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Setting research agendas: where does the power lie?
  Dr Insa Koch (LSE), Jon Harle (INASP), Hannah Burd (The Behavioural Insights Team, UK Cabinet Office)
  Re-Engaging Truth Seminar Series

Monday 6 November 2017

• 13:00 - Causal claims to wellbeing improvement: the QuIP quest for better impact evaluation
  A sandwich lunch is available on a first come, first served basis.
  Prof James Copestake (University of Bath)
  Archive: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 16:30 - Obligations to the Needy: Effective Altruism, Pluralism, and Singer’s Pond Example
  The first lecture is jointly organised with Professor McMahan's Moral Philosophy Seminar Series. Booking is required.
  Professor Larry S. Temkin (Rutgers University)
  Annual Uehiro Lectures
• 17:00 - "The Ideology of Religious Studies Revisited: the problem with Politics", Interdisciplinary Research Seminar in the Study of Religions
  Prof. Timothy Fitzgerald (University of Stirling )
  Interdisciplinary Research Seminar in the Study of Religions
• 17:00 - Book Launch: Police in Africa: The Street-Level View
  Oliver Owen (University of Oxford), Prof Jonny Steinberg (University of Oxford)
  African History & Politics Seminars
• 17:00 - Unfinished business: Unexplored causes of the financial crisis and lessons yet to be learned
  Tamim Bayoumi (International Monetary Fund)
  Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM)

Tuesday 7 November 2017

• 14:00 - The Sweatshop Regime: Garments, Exploitation, and labouring Bodies made in India
  Alessandra Mezzadri (School of Oriental and African Studies)
  Modern South Asia Seminar
• 17:00 - Things Come Together: Science and the American West
  Elliott West (University of Arkansas, and The Queen’s College)
  American History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Deserts, Development and Colonial Control in the Middle East
  Dr Robert Fletcher (University of Warwick)
  Oxford Transnational and Global History Seminar

Wednesday 8 November 2017

• 14:00 - Thailand's Post-2014 Foreign Policy: Riding on the International Trend
  Pavin Chachavalpongpun (Kyoto University; London School of Economics)
  Southeast Asia Seminar
• 16:15 - Culture's role in hazard and climate change risk: worldviews, belief systems and 'alternative facts'
  Dr Lisa Schipper (Overseas Development Institute)
  ECI Big Ideas Seminar
• 17:00 - Obligations to the Needy: Singer’s Pond Example versus Supporting International Aid Organizations—Some Disanalogies and Their Normative Significance
  Booking required.
  Professor Larry S. Temkin (Rutgers University)
  Annual Uehiro Lectures
• 17:30 - Book Event: Ethnic Politics and State Power in Africa
  Philip Roessler (College of William and Mary), Professor Sir Paul Collier (Blavatnik School of Government)

Thursday 9 November 2017

• 17:00 - Economic globalisation, poverty and human trafficking in Nigeria
  Daisy Onyige (University of Oxford)
  African Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Future of the Left Seminar Series: Paul Mason
  Paul Mason
  Future of the Left Seminar Series

Friday 10 November 2017

• 16:00 - 'The Amerikan Steppes: The Unexpected Russian Roots of Great Plains Agriculture, 1870s-1930s'
  David Moon (York)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Obligations to the Needy: Some Empirical Worries and Uncomfortable Philosophical Possibilities
  Booking is required.
  Professor Larry S. Temkin (Rutgers University)
  Annual Uehiro Lectures
• 17:00 - Martial Arts in the Middle East
  Hatsuki Aishima (National Museum of Ethnology, Japan)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series
• 17:00 - What contentious issues are easily manipulated in public discourse?
  George Gabriel (Citizens UK), Dr Michele Leiby ( College of Wooster, Ohio), Dr Matthew Krain (College of Wooster, Ohio)
  Re-Engaging Truth Seminar Series

Monday 13 November 2017

• 09:00 - Society for Decision Making under Deep Uncertainty Annual Workshop
  Various Speakers
• 13:00 - Chronic or acute? Preference-consistent measurement of poverty over time
  A sandwich lunch is available on a first come, first served basis.
  Dr Natalie Quinn (University of Oxford)
  Archive: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 15:00 - Oxford @ COP23 Bonn: Measuring progress towards Paris Agreement: Aligning policy and science in global stocktakes. Official Side Event for COP23, Bonn
  Please note this event is in Bonn, Germany.
  Prof Myles Allen (School of Geography and the Environment), Honourable Mr. Tshekedi Khama, Professor Keith Shine, Dr. Jan Fuglestvedt, Dr. Adrian Macey (Chair)
  Environmental Change Institute
• 17:00 - Panel: Understanding West Africa’s Ebola Epidemic: Towards a Political Economy
  Dr Julia Amos (University of Oxford)
  African History & Politics Seminars

Tuesday 14 November 2017

• 12:30 - Why use subjective sources? Collaborative workshop on what historians can learn from sources for the self
  Various Speakers
  Centre for Gender, Identity and Subjectivity Discussion Group (formerly Reading Group)
• 14:00 - Tracing Conscience in Time of War: Archiving a History of Dissent in Sri Lanka 1960s to 2000s
  Johnathan Spencer (Edinburgh)
  Modern South Asia Seminar
• 16:00 - Discussion of Harmsworth Inaugural Lecture
  Prof. Pekka Hamalainen (St. Catherine’s)
  American History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The Volcano’s Deadly Work: Records of Volcanic Disasters in the Long Nineteenth Century
  Professor David Pyle (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Transnational and Global History Seminar
• 17:00 - Woman of Myanmar Speak out
  Dr Daw Khin Mar Mar Kyi (Senior Gender Research Fellow and Research Associate), Dr Maria Jaschok (Director, International Gender Studies Centre)

Wednesday 15 November 2017

• 13:00 - The significance and politics of technology in registering refugees in Kenya
  Claire Walkey (University of Oxford)
  Technology and Mobilities in Africa
• 17:00 - Seeking sustainable growth: Short-term optimism, medium-term challenges
  Oya Celasun (IMF)
  Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM)
• 17:15 - Occupation and Empire: The Global Dynamics of the Illiberal Wartime State during the First World War
  John Horne (Trinity College Dublin)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 16 November 2017

• 17:00 - The Social Dimensions of Land Rights Reform in Liberia
  David Brown (University of Oxford)
  African Studies Seminar Series
• 17:30 - Aspects of Conservatism: Danny Kruger - The Country We Want to Be
  Danny Kruger (Legatum Institute)
  Aspects of Conservatism

Friday 17 November 2017

• 16:00 - 'A Thirsty Empire: Water Scarcity in the British Indian Ocean World 1850-1945'
  Ruth Morgan (Monash)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Yemen in Crisis: Autocracy, Neo-Liberalism and the Disintegration of a State
  Helen Lackner (London Middle East Institute)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series
• 17:00 - How is opinion shaped by new and old media?
  Rob McNeil (The Migration Observatory, University of Oxford), Ilan Manor (University of Oxford), Robert Gorwa (Oxford Internet Institute)
  Re-Engaging Truth Seminar Series

Monday 20 November 2017

• 17:00 - The Market Model: The Commodification of Migrants and their Rights
  Professor Justin Gest (George Mason University)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series
• 17:00 - How international programmes politicise interwar societies: The case of women’s collective action in Burundi (1993-2015)
  Dr Marie Saiget (SciencesPo/CERI)
  African History & Politics Seminars
• 17:00 - Ireland: The case for an adaptive approach to macromanagement
  Gillian Edgeworth (Wellington Management)
  Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM)

Tuesday 21 November 2017

• 14:00 - The British High Commission in Pakistan 1947-71: Role and History
  Ian Talbot (Southampton)
  Modern South Asia Seminar
• 16:00 - ’The Re-conquest of America’: American Munitions and British Governance during the Great War
  Jennifer Luff (Durham)
  American History Research Seminar
• 17:45 - Canada Seminar
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 22 November 2017

• 17:00 - The displacement paradox: good refugees, bad migrants. Where can the unwanted go? | Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture 2017
  Dr Jemilah Mahmood (IFRC)
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures
• 17:00 - Technocratic government – challenges and legacy: The case of Romania
  Dacian Ciolos (Former Prime Minister of Romania), Raluca Pruna (Former Justice Minister of Romania), Dragos Tudorache (Former Interior Minister of Romania), Heidi Maurer (LSE/DPIR)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)

Thursday 23 November 2017

• 09:00 - Revisiting Yugoslavia in the shadow of the present: Continuities and discontinuities
  Please check website (:)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
• 17:00 - Citizens for Justice; struggles against violence and predation in wartorn South Sudan
  Rachel Ibreck (Goldsmiths)
  African Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Do countries ever really disappear?
  TBA
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
• 17:00 - Future of the Left Seminar Series: Andrew Fisher
  Andrew Fisher
  Future of the Left Seminar Series

Friday 24 November 2017

• 16:00 - Waiting for the barbarians: what archaeology has to say about southern hemisphere equestrians
  Peter Mitchell (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Are Algerian politics exhausted?
  Hugh Roberts (Tufts University)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Designing a ‘Turning the Dial’ research project
  TBA
  Re-Engaging Truth Seminar Series

Monday 27 November 2017

• 13:00 - The Multidimensional Poverty Index as a Planning Tool Across Africa
  A sandwich lunch is available on a first come, first served basis.
  Dr Pali Lehohla (Statistics South Africa)
  Archive: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Cultures of decolonisation: political change and student life in Nigeria
  Tim Livsey (University of Oxford)
  African History & Politics Seminars

Tuesday 28 November 2017

• 11:30 - 'What does it mean to be a feminist historian?'
  Various Speakers
  Centre for Gender, Identity and Subjectivity Discussion Group (formerly Reading Group)
• 14:00 - The Political Economy of Business-State Deals in Indian States
  Kunal Sen (Manchester)
  Modern South Asia Seminar
• 17:00 - Britain, the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment, and the Battle over Maritime Pollution in the 1960s and 1970s
  Dr Glen O’Hara (Oxford Brookes University)
  Oxford Transnational and Global History Seminar

Wednesday 29 November 2017

• 17:15 - Rebuilding Landscapes, Reconstructing Lives: Brandenburg after the Thirty Years War
  Mary Lindemann (Miami)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 30 November 2017

• 13:00 - Migration research and control in the age of big data
  Linnet Taylor (Tilburg University)
  Technology and Mobilities in Africa
• 17:00 - Book Launch 'Taken for a Ride: Grounding Neoliberalism, Precarious Labour and Public Transport in an African Metropolis'
  Matteo Rizzo (SOAS)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Friday 1 December 2017

• 16:00 - 'The Imperial Zoo. The commodification of wildlife, colonial propaganda, and transimperial conservationism (London, Paris, and Antwerp zoos, nineteenth century-ca. 1960)'
  Violette Pouillard (Ghent)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The policy implications of President Rouhani 's second term
  Roham Alvandi (LSE), Amir Paivar (BBC)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series

Wednesday 6 December 2017

• 17:30 - Beyond Gridlock in World Politics? Panel Discussion and Book Launch
  Dr Thomas Hale (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford), Dr Emily Jones (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford), Dr Lucas Kello (University of Oxford)

Thursday 7 December 2017

• 17:00 - Future of the Left Seminar Series: Tom Watson
  Tom Watson
  Future of the Left Seminar Series

Monday 15 January 2018

• 13:00 - Understanding the Differences between the MPI and MODA
  A sandwich lunch is available on a first come, first served basis.
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Sabina Alkire (University of Oxford)
  Archive: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series

Tuesday 16 January 2018

• 14:00 - Subaltern Counter-Publics: Dalits and Missionary Christianity in Kerala
  Sanal Mohan (Mahatma Gandhi Universit)
  Modern South Asia Seminar
• 16:00 - “Coax Me”: Sexual Coercion and Popular Culture in New York, 1900-1929
  Dr. Mara Keire (University of Oxford)
  American History Research Seminar

Thursday 18 January 2018

• 11:00 - Our Bodies, Ourselves: Feminist Healthcare from the Local to the Transnational in 1970s Britain, France and the U.S.
  Tess Little (Oxford)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 14:00 - Knowledge Exchange, Practice and Impact: Opportunities and Challenges in a New Era for the Academy
  Kirsten Shepherd-Barr
  COMPAS seminar series: Beyond Impact? Using, Exchanging, and Communicating Migration Knowledge and Research
• 14:00 - International Comparison of the Impacts of War, Revolution, and Economic Transition on the Elderly: China, Japan, Korea (North and South), and Russia
  Professor Chris Davis (University of Oxford)
  Population Ageing in Countries that have Experienced War, Revolution, and Economic Transition
• 17:00 - The New Sultan: Erdogan and the Crisis of Modern Turkey
  Soner Cagaptay (Washington Institute for Near East Policy), Ceren Lord (School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
• 17:00 - Why is the Horn different?
  Professor Christopher Clapham (University of Cambridge)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Friday 19 January 2018

• 16:00 - ‘An unnavigable valley: trade and sovereignty in the forest of Borneo, c. 1878-1938’
  Shinobu Majima (Gakushuin)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Lecture One: Youth and Age
  Alexandra Walsham (University of Cambridge)
  The James Ford Lectures 2017 - Family and Empire: Kinship and British Colonialism in the East India Company Era, c. 1750-1850

Monday 22 January 2018

• 17:00 - Price and financial stability: Rethinking financial markets
  David Harrison (DAC Beachcroft)
  Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM)

Tuesday 23 January 2018

• 14:00 - The Rohingya Exodus: Orchestrated Violence and Strategies of Surviva
  Shapan Adnan
  Modern South Asia Seminar
• 16:00 - Instability and Inequality: American Capitalism after the Volcker Shock of 1980
  Jon Levy (University of Chicago)
  American History Research Seminar

Wednesday 24 January 2018

• 17:00 - Hunger and Fury: The Crisis of Democracy in the Balkans
  Jasmin Mujanović (EastWest Institute), Danijela Dolenec (University of Zagreb)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
• 17:15 - The Ancient Face of Battle
  Please be aware, this paper will include video clips depicting violent acts, both simulated and actual
  Adrastos Omissi (Oxford)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 25 January 2018

• 11:00 - New Directions in Suffrage Historiography (joint session with Women and Gender History)
  Naomi Paxton (Houses of Parliament and University of Lincoln), Zoe Thomas (Birmingham), Lyndsey Jenkins (University of Oxford )
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 14:00 - Brokering Knowledge in Research with Refugee and Migrant Case Workers
  Sara de Jong (Research Fellow, Citizenship and Governance at The Open University), Kate Smart (Asylum Welcome, Oxford), Almas Farsi (Asylum Welcome, Oxford)
  COMPAS seminar series: Beyond Impact? Using, Exchanging, and Communicating Migration Knowledge and Research
• 17:00 - AI in Healthcare
  Professor David Clifton (Department of Engineering Science of the University of Oxford)
  Health: fresh perspectives
• 17:00 - Special Lecture: Religious dress
  The Right Hon the Baroness Hale of Richmond DBE (President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Future of the Left Seminar Series: How Politics in the Centre can be radical
  Alison McGovern MP
  Future of the Left Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Negotiating with China: African agency and challenges
  TBA
  African Studies Seminar Series

Friday 26 January 2018

• 16:00 - 'Duncan Sandys and Decolonisation'
  Please note change in programme due to speaker illness.
  Dr Peter Brooke (Wolfson, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Lecture Two: Kith and Kin (This Lecture will be followed by a drinks reception from 18:00-19:00)
  Alexandra Walsham (University of Cambridge)
  The James Ford Lectures 2017 - Family and Empire: Kinship and British Colonialism in the East India Company Era, c. 1750-1850

Monday 29 January 2018

• 13:00 - Multidimensional Poverty and Violence
  A sandwich lunch is available on a first come, first served basis.
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Christian Oldiges (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative)
  Archive: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 13:00 - The Mladić Case before the ICTY – an Insider’s Perspective
  A light sandwich lunch will be served from 12:45pm
  Jonas Nilsson (International Criminal Court for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY))
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Book Launch: We Do Not Have Borders: Greater Somalia and the Predicament of Belonging in Kenya (Joint event with the Horn of Africa seminar series)
  Keren Weitzberg (UCL)
  African History & Politics Seminars
• 17:00 - Economic convergence in the Euro Area: Coming together or drifting apart?
  Jeffrey Franks (IMF Europe)
  Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM)

Tuesday 30 January 2018

• 14:00 - Violence, Rents and Investment: Explaining Growth Divergence in South Asia
  Adnan Naseemullah (King's College London)
  Modern South Asia Seminar
• 15:00 - Investor-State Dispute Settlement: Are Arbitrators or Judges the Path Forward?
  Dr Emily Jones (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford), Dr Todd Tucker (Roosevelt Institute), Dr Konstanze von Papp (Keele University), Dr Maria A Gwynn (University of Oxford)
• 16:00 - Fullness, Fatness, and Memories of Mammy
  Gretchen Long (Williams College, & Exeter College, University of Oxford)
  American History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - ‘The Jan-Georg Deutsch Annual Debate’
  Alexander Morrison (New College, Oxford), Kevin Fogg (Centre for Islamic Studies)
  Oxford Transnational and Global History Seminar

Wednesday 31 January 2018

• 17:00 - Energy and geo-politics in Eastern Mediterranean
  Constantinos (Filis)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)

Thursday 1 February 2018

• 11:00 - The ‘Third World’ as an Effect of the Social Sciences
  Daniel Speich Chassé (Lucerne)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 14:00 - The Politics of Evidence and Knowledge in a Polarised World
  Christina Boswell (Professor of Politics at University of Edinburgh)
  COMPAS seminar series: Beyond Impact? Using, Exchanging, and Communicating Migration Knowledge and Research
• 17:00 - Transforming drug discovery – the pathway to innovation
  Colin Bennett (Visiting Fellow, Oxford Martin School), Professor Chas Bountra (Oxford Martin Programme on Affordable Medicines ), Dr Wen Hwa Lee (Oxford Martin Programme on Affordable Medicines ), Dr Nick Scott-Ram (Oxford Martin Programme on Affordable Medicines )
  Health: fresh perspectives
• 17:00 - Freedom by Force: Why Foreign-Imposed Democracy Succeeds or Fails
  Jonathan Monten (University College London)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series
• 17:00 - Taking normative politics in Africa seriously: can we conceptualize "accessibility" as a political value? Case studies from Southwest Nigeria
  Portia Roelofs (London School of Economics)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Friday 2 February 2018

• 14:00 - LGBT HISTORY MONTH – OXFORD HISTORY FACULTY LGBTQ
  Professor Heike Bauer (Birkbeck College, University of London), Sonia Cuesta Maniar, Ira Roldugina, Professsor Chris Waters (Williams College)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 16:00 - ‘Land and the origins of British India’
  John Marriott (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Lecture Three: Blood and Trees
  Alexandra Walsham (University of Cambridge)
  The James Ford Lectures 2017 - Family and Empire: Kinship and British Colonialism in the East India Company Era, c. 1750-1850

Monday 5 February 2018

• 13:00 - Multidimensional Poverty Indices for Children from Household Surveys: Lessons and Ways Forward
  A sandwich lunch is available on a first come, first served basis.
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Martin Evans (Overseas Development Institute)
  Archive: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 13:00 - The Right to Life, UN Rules of Engagement and Use of Deadly Force by UN Peacekeepers in Haiti
  A light sandwich lunch will be served from 12:45pm
  Professor Siobhán Wills (Transitional Justice Institute, Ulster University)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The Political economy of independent Rwanda in historical perspective
  Pritish Behuria (Manchester)
  African History & Politics Seminars
• 17:00 - "It Stays With You: Use of Force by UN Peacekeepers in Haiti" Film Screening and Discussion
  All attendees are invited to a drinks reception
  Professor Siobhán Wills (Transitional Justice Institute, Ulster University)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 17:00 - A monetary history of the Euro Area
  Christopher Marsh (Former IMF)
  Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM)

Tuesday 6 February 2018

• 14:00 - Querying the Cosmopolitan in Sri Lankan and Indian Ocean History
  Zoltán Biedermann (University College London), Alan Strathern (Brasenose)
  Modern South Asia Seminar
• 16:00 - Sir John Elliott Lecture: The Atlantic in the Interior
  Emma Rothschild (Harvard University)
  American History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The struggle for human rights in Zimbabwean mining
  Farai Maguwu (Zimbabwe Centre for Natural Resource Governance), in association with Initiatives of Change & Human Rights Watch
  South Africa Discussion Group

Wednesday 7 February 2018

• 17:00 - Innovating Food Systems To Respond To Rapid Global Changes
  Dr Shenggen Fan (Director General of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI))
• 17:00 - ‘Capital of a Liquid Continent: The Port of Marseille, the Mediterranean Sea and the Re-Globalization of France, 1798-1935’
  Please note this week's seminar will be held on Wednesday
  Dr Manuel Borutta (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
  Oxford Transnational and Global History Seminar
• 17:00 - The Greco-German Affiar in the Euro Crisis: Mutual Recognition Lost?
  Book discussion
  Kira (Gartzou-Katsouyanni), Kalypso Nicolaidis (St Antony's College), Claudia Sternberg (UCL)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
• 17:15 - U.S. Armor Doctrine in World War II
  Bradley Thayer (Tallinn)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 8 February 2018

• 11:00 - 'Eastern Gurus and Western Followers: the Spirituality of Nationalism in the 'Global Idealist Moment'.
  Ruth Harris
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 14:00 - Telling Stories to Communicate Data and Evidence
  Sunder Katwala (Director, British Future), Alan Smith OBE (Data Visualisation Editor, The Financial Times)
  COMPAS seminar series: Beyond Impact? Using, Exchanging, and Communicating Migration Knowledge and Research
• 17:00 - Prospects for new tools to control malaria
  Professor Kevin Marsh (Professor of Tropical Medicine, Tropical Medicine & Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine)
  Health: fresh perspectives
• 17:00 - Future of the Left Seminar Series: The New Left Wing
  Liz Kendall MP
  Future of the Left Seminar Series
• 17:00 - From rebel movement to political party: UNITA's social engagement in post-war Angola
  Justin Pearce (University of Cambridge)
  African Studies Seminar Series
• 17:15 - Figurative Frames in Political Communication
  Registration is free. Please register here: https://goo.gl/Wm6ped
  Christian Burgers (Free University Amsterdam)

Friday 9 February 2018

• 16:00 - ‘“Among these incongruous battalia, are represented the hopes of the world”: gold rushes and global history’
  Benjamin Mountford (La Trobe), Stephen Tuffnell (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Do We Need Defending?: The History, Tactics and Modern Relevance of Antifascist, Antiracist and Antisectarian Resistance in the United Kingdom
  Professor Nigel Copsey (History, Teeside University), Professor Akwugo Emejulu (Sociology, University of Warwick), Dr. Niall O’Dochartaigh (History & Politics, NUI Galway), Mr. Stephen Ashe (Sociology, University of Manchester)
  Violence Studies Research Network
• 17:00 - Lecture Four: Generations and Seed
  Alexandra Walsham (University of Cambridge)
  The James Ford Lectures 2017 - Family and Empire: Kinship and British Colonialism in the East India Company Era, c. 1750-1850

Monday 12 February 2018

• 13:00 - The Cost of Fitting In
  A sandwich lunch is available on a first come, first served basis.
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Jonathan Wolff (Blavatnik School of Government)
  Archive: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 13:00 - The UN in Kosovo: Building the Rule of Law and Respect for Human Rights, a Very Mixed Record
  A light sandwich lunch will be served from 12:45pm
  Bill O’Neill (UN Mission in Kosovo)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Persistent perceptions: High modern techniques, neo-liberal times, and enduring subjects in Burundi’s rural Rural Integrated Villages!
  Yolanda Weima (York University, Canada)
  African History & Politics Seminars
• 17:00 - Financial resilience and bank size – are we forgetting what is most important?
  Piroska Nagy-Mohacsi (LSE)
  Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM)
• 17:30 - The role of international organisations in making peace
  Alexander Hug (OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine)

Tuesday 13 February 2018

• 14:00 - Ambivalence, Ambiguity and Alienation: Making Sense of 'Tension' in North India
  Raphael Susewind (King's College London)
  Modern South Asia Seminar
• 15:00 - 'Domestic Service, mobility, and otherness’ led by Fanny Louvier and Olivia Robinson
  Various Speakers
  Centre for Gender, Identity and Subjectivity Discussion Group (formerly Reading Group)
• 17:00 - Winant Lecture - Politics after God
  David Sehat (John G. Winant Visiting Professor of American Government, University of Oxford and Georgia State)
  American History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - ‘Piracy and the Oceanic Turn’
  Dr. Simon Layton (Queen Mary, University of London)
  Oxford Transnational and Global History Seminar

Wednesday 14 February 2018

• 17:00 - Antibiotics: to regulate or not?
  Professor Julian Savulescu (Oxford Martin Programme on Collective Responsibility for Infectious Disease), Professor Steven J. Hoffman (Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Global Strategy Lab at the University of Ottawa)
  Health: fresh perspectives

Thursday 15 February 2018

• 11:00 - Children of the Rising: A Traumatic History of Easter 1916
  Caoimhe Nic Dháibhéid (Sheffield)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 14:00 - Interdisciplinary Approaches to Knowledge Exchange and Migration
  Professor Sarah Harper (Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, University of Oxford), Sundeep Lidher (Project Researcher, ‘Our Migration Story’ Runnymede Trust)
  COMPAS seminar series: Beyond Impact? Using, Exchanging, and Communicating Migration Knowledge and Research
• 17:00 - The growing and ageing population: Implications and solutions
  Professor Sarah Harper (Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, University of Oxford)
  Health: fresh perspectives
• 17:00 - Special Lecture: Palestine/Israel: history is undecided...
  Ambassador Afif Safieh
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Capitalist development and political institutions in Tanzania: Explaining variation in party cohesion and legislative power
  Michaela Collord (University of Oxford)
  African Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Capitalist development and political institutions in Tanzania: Explaining variation in party cohesion and legislative power
  Michaela Collord (University of Oxford)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Friday 16 February 2018

• 15:00 - Africa and Decolonisation workshop
  Various Speakers
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Lecture Five: History and Time
  Alexandra Walsham (University of Cambridge)
  The James Ford Lectures 2017 - Family and Empire: Kinship and British Colonialism in the East India Company Era, c. 1750-1850
• 17:30 - Pakistan’s Nuclear Bomb: A Story of Defiance, Deterrence, and Deviance
  Hassan Abbas (National Defense University)

Monday 19 February 2018

• 13:00 - Income and Multidimensional Poverty in Indonesia
  A sandwich lunch is available on a first come, first served basis.
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Usha Kanagaratnam (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative)
  Archive: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Genocide on Trial. Witnessing and Evidence at Rwanda's Gacaca Courts and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
  A light sandwich lunch will be served from 12:45pm
  Dr Julia Viebach (Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Book Launch: The Struggle over State Power in Zimbabwe: Law and Politics since 1950
  George Karekwaivanane (Edinburgh)
  African History & Politics Seminars

Tuesday 20 February 2018

• 14:00 - My Enemy's Enemy: India in Afghanistan from the Soviet Invasion to the US Withdrawal
  Avinash Paliwal (School of Oriental and African Studies, London)
  Modern South Asia Seminar
• 16:00 - Womanly Chit-Chat?: Women's Pages in U.S. Newspapers, 1870-1930
  Julia Guarneri (University of Cambridge)
  American History Research Seminar
• 16:30 - Crossing Digital Divides? Social Media, Children and Young People in Malawi
  Elsbeth Robson ( University of Hull)
  Technology and Mobilities in Africa
• 17:00 - 'Islands and Isolation in European History: Towards an Intellectual History of the Isle of Man'
  Dr. Dina Gusejnova (University of Sheffield)
  Oxford Transnational and Global History Seminar
• 17:00 - "No Place for a Rebel": Film Screening and Discussion
  TBA
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Greek to Me: A Memoir of Academic Life
  Richard Clogg (St Antony’s College, Oxford), Stathis Kalyvas (All Souls College, Oxford))
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)

Wednesday 21 February 2018

• 17:00 - (Ir)regular states of migration: Contested sovereignties on Europe’s margins
  Katerina Rozakou (University of Amsterdam), Franck Duvell (COMPAS, Oxford)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
• 17:00 - China's Challenge to the Modern World
  Stein Ringen (Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford)
• 17:15 - War and the British Warfare State in the Twentieth Century
  David Edgerton (KCL)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 22 February 2018

• 11:00 - The Rise of the Mystic Romantic in Colonial Bengal: Poetry, Power and the Politics of Imagination
  Alex Wolfers (Cambridge)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 14:00 - Engaging with Policymakers at the City Level
  Max Nathan (Senior Birmingham Fellow in Regional Economic Development at Birmingham Business School), Andrew Carter (Chief Executive, Centre for Cities )
  COMPAS seminar series: Beyond Impact? Using, Exchanging, and Communicating Migration Knowledge and Research
• 14:00 - The Elderly in South Korea and North Korea During War and Peace, and Challenges Posed by Unification
  Professor Jay Lewis (University of Oxford), Professor Chris Davis (University of Oxford)
  Population Ageing in Countries that have Experienced War, Revolution, and Economic Transition
• 17:00 - Lincoln Leads 2018: Will our Children Thank us for Brexit?
  Dr. Jody LaPorte (University of Oxford), Sir William Cash (Lincoln College), Nicholas Leah (University of Oxford)
  Lincoln Leads Seminar Series 2018
• 17:00 - Whose Peace? Local Ownership and United Nations Peacekeeping
  Sarah von Billerbeck (University of Reading)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series
• 17:00 - Affective Communities: Letter Writing and Politics in Independent Kenya, 1963-75
  TBA
  African Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Making Human Rights Work in the 21st Century
  Professor Kathryn Sikkink (Harvard Kennedy School)

Friday 23 February 2018

• 16:00 - ‘The politics of the public sphere: print culture in colonial Lagos, 1880s-1940s’
  Katharina Oke (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Lecture Six: Memory and Archive
  Alexandra Walsham (University of Cambridge)
  The James Ford Lectures 2017 - Family and Empire: Kinship and British Colonialism in the East India Company Era, c. 1750-1850

Monday 26 February 2018

• 13:00 - Incorporating a Delphi Method within Poverty Measurement: A Case Study of West Java, Indonesia
  A sandwich lunch is available on a first come, first served basis.
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Putu Natih (University of Oxford)
  Archive: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Voice, Agency and Responsibility in Northern Ireland
  A light sandwich lunch will be served from 12:45pm.
  Dr Cheryl Lawther (Queen’s University Belfast)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Book Launch: Turbulence and Order in Economic Development: Institutions and Economic Transformation in Tanzania and Vietnam
  CANCELLED
  Hazel Gray (Edinburgh)
  African History & Politics Seminars
• 17:00 - The digital revolution and the State
  William H. Janeway (Venture capitalist and Economist)
  Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM)

Tuesday 27 February 2018

• 12:00 - Special Lecture: Dialogue in action: the witness of St Francis of Assisi
  Cardinal Vincent Nichols (Archbishop of Westminster)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 14:00 - Material Deprivation and Intra-household Allocation across Europe
  This event has been postponed due to the ongoing strike action at the University.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Tania Burchardt (London School of Economics)
  Archive: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Money, Enticements, Modernity: Indian Elite Women between Anxiety and Privilege
  Parul Bhandari (Centre of Social Sciences and Humanities)
  Modern South Asia Seminar
• 16:00 - Murder in Manhattan: Stanford White and the “Unwritten Law” in New York at the Fin-de-Siecle
  Simon Baatz (John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York)
  American History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The black hole of finance: creation and destruction in life, the economy, and the universe
  Professor Seth Lloyd (Visiting Fellow, Oxford Martin School)
• 17:30 - Is Microeconomics Unfalsifiable?
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Johanna Thoma (London School of Economics)

Wednesday 28 February 2018

• 13:00 - Article 32 VCLT and Some Problems of Treaty Interpretation
  Matthew Windsor (University of Oxford), Talita de Souza Dias (University of Oxford), Yulia Ioffe (University of Oxford)
• 17:00 - Opposition Politics in India
  Salman Khurshid
• 17:00 - The erosion of free speech in Turkey: Why were key institutions defeated?
  Kemal Göktaş (Cumhuriyet; Reuters Institute), Rıza Türmen (Former ECHR judge and former MP), Funda Ustek-Spilda (Goldsmiths University of London)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
• 17:30 - Licence to Cut: A surgeon's dissection of care in the UK and abroad
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Naresh Joshi (Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London)

Thursday 1 March 2018

• 11:00 - The Orientalism of Others: Asian intellectuals and the battle for difference, 1890 to 1930
  Mark Frost (Essex)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 14:00 - A Living Lab Methodology for Evaluating Innovation in Asylum Seeker Reception: The Utrecht Refugee Launchpad
  Caroline Oliver (Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Roehampton)
  COMPAS seminar series: Beyond Impact? Using, Exchanging, and Communicating Migration Knowledge and Research
• 14:00 - Information and Political Accountability. Evidence from Seven Studies
  Macartan Humphreys (Columbia University and WZB Berlin)
• 17:00 - ‘The politics of things’: digital media, urban space and the materiality of civic engagement
  Wendy Willems (London School of Economics)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Friday 2 March 2018

• 10:00 - Global & Imperial History graduate student research presentations (D.Phil.)
  Various Speakers
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 5 March 2018

• 13:00 - Building a Child MPI
  A sandwich lunch is available on a first come, first served basis.
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Ana Vaz (University of Oxford)
  Archive: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Party loyalists and political violence in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic
  CANCELLED
  Sa'eed Husaini (Oxford)
  African History & Politics Seminars
• 17:00 - Political risks in Europe: Brexit and its impact on businesses
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Mujtabar Rahman (Eurasia Group, Europe)
  Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM)

Tuesday 6 March 2018

• 14:00 - Farmers Matter in New India but not the Same Way: Political Settlement, Discontinuous Agrarian Policy and Class-Formations
  Sejuti Das Gupta (James Madison)
  Modern South Asia Seminar
• 16:00 - The Synthetics Revolution and the Senses, 1939-1970
  Regina Lee Blaszczyk (University of Leeds)
  American History Research Seminar
• 16:30 - Social Media Warfare and Kenya's Conflict with Al Shabaab in Somalia
  Thomas Molony (University of Edinburgh)
  Technology and Mobilities in Africa
• 17:00 - 'Channels of Communication: Rethinking Connections and their Limits in the Suez Canal Region c. 1900'
  Dr. Valeska Huber (Freie Universität Berlin)
  Oxford Transnational and Global History Seminar

Wednesday 7 March 2018

• 17:00 - Rival Power: Russia and South East Europe
  A joint event with the Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre (RESC), in association with Centre for International Studies (CIS)
  Dimitar Bechev (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Professor Roy Allison (St Antony's College), Othon Anastasakis (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
• 17:15 - "We feared only that they might run away" - Three Failed Assaults in the Russian Conquest of Central Asia, 1852 - 1879
  Alexander Morrison (Oxford)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 8 March 2018

• 11:00 - Civic Materialism and Banal Nationalism: The Politics of Everyday Life in Paris and Berlin, 1880-1930
  Leora Ausländer (Chicago)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 14:00 - Beyond Impact? Provocations for Future Research, Practice, and Engagement
  Dr Sarah Spencer CBE (COMPAS, University of Oxford), Tony McEnery (Interim Chief Executive, ESRC), Paul Cairney (Professor of Politics and Public Policy, University of Stirling)
  COMPAS seminar series: Beyond Impact? Using, Exchanging, and Communicating Migration Knowledge and Research
• 14:00 - The Role of Population Policies in Addressing Ageing in the BRICS Countries
  Abstract added
  Professor Asghar Zaidi (University of Southampton and London School of Economics)
  Population Ageing in Countries that have Experienced War, Revolution, and Economic Transition
• 17:00 - Planetary health: is human health at risk in the Anthropocene?
  Sir Andrew Haines (member of The Rockefeller Foundation Economic Council on Planetary Health at the Oxford Martin School)
  Health: fresh perspectives
• 17:00 - Assessing the African human subject through social science experimentation and Randomized Control Trials
  Dominic Burbidge (University of Oxford)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Friday 9 March 2018

• 10:00 - Global & Imperial History graduate student research presentations (M.St.)
  Various Speakers
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 16:30 - Radical Uncertainty and Robust Public Policy
  Lord Mervyn King (Governor of the Bank of England (2003 - 2013) )
  Political Economy Seminars

Tuesday 13 March 2018

• 16:30 - Social Media in Post-democratic Burundi: Influence of the Diaspora and the Production of (Fake) News by the State, Citizens and Refugees
  Jean-Benoît Falisse (University of Edinburgh)
  Technology and Mobilities in Africa

Friday 23 March 2018

• 17:00 - Miguna Miguna: "Kenya's Current Political Crisis"
  Dr Miguna Miguna, Dominic Burbidge (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 28 March 2018

• 17:30 - #AidToo: politics, power and safeguarding in international aid
  Helen Evans (Oxfordshire City Council), Shaista Aziz (Journalist and writer)

Monday 23 April 2018

• 17:00 - The Balkans in the wider European context: The Slovene view
  Iztok Mirošič (State Secretary, Slovenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
• 17:00 - Party loyalists and political voice in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic
  Sa'eed Husaini (Oxford)
  African History & Politics Seminars

Tuesday 24 April 2018

• 10:00 - When did the Hundred Years War End?
  Dr Rowena Archer
  Europaeum: Before War, After War
• 14:00 - Harem Histories and Princely Politics: Tipu Sultan, the Family and East India Company Rule
  Margot Finn (UCL)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Wednesday 25 April 2018

• 12:30 - Finance in Africa: Banks, debt, and development
  Various Speakers
  Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM)
• 17:00 - ‘Mohammed Marmaduke Pickthall: Qur’an translator and novelist’
  Dr Peter Clark (SOAS)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 26 April 2018

• 14:00 - Battle Imaginaries in World Politics
  Dr Tarak Barkawi (London School of Economics)
  SoGE Political Worlds Cluster Events
• 16:30 - The Future of Capitalism
  Professor Sir Paul Collier (Blavatnik School of Government), Baroness Alison Wolf
  Political Economy Seminars
• 17:00 - 'The right to freedom of religion: cases and controversies’
  The Lord Pannick QC (Distinguished Fellow)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Friday 27 April 2018

• 11:00 - What is the role of the private sector in the provision of public services?
  John Redwood MP (House of Commons)
• 17:00 - 2018 Dahrendorf Lecture: The Defence of the University in Illiberal Times
  Michael Ignatieff (Rector, Central European University), Professor Louise Richardson (Vice-Chancellor, University of Oxford)

Monday 30 April 2018

• 13:00 - European Union and Democratisation: Backsliding in Tow of Unsuccessful Conditionality?
  A light sandwich lunch will be served from 12:45pm
  Dr Katarína Šipulová (Judicial Studies Institute, Masaryk University Brno)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Panel discussion - Greek-Turkish tensions: Impending conflict?
  Othon Anastasakis (St Antony's College, University of Oxford), Ezgi Başaran (St Antony's College, Oxford), Mehmet Karli (Centre for International Studies, Oxford), Katerina Dalacoura (LSE), Kalypso Nicolaidis (St Antony's College), Yaprak Gursoy (Ashton University)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
• 17:00 - Book Launch: Turbulence and Order in Economic Development: Institutions and Economic Transformation in Tanzania and Vietnam (OUP)
  Hazel Gray (Edinburgh)
  African History & Politics Seminars

Tuesday 1 May 2018

• 10:00 - War by other Means? Values and Practices in European Diplomacy c1500-c1600
  Dr Tracey Sowerby
  Europaeum: Before War, After War
• 14:00 - Economic Mobility, Islamic Piety and Caste: Ashrafization in Pakistani Punjab
  Muhammad Ali Jan (Wolfson)
  Modern South Asia Seminar
• 17:00 - Lecture: Arab Media in the New Age
  George Hawatmeh ((Jordan Radio and Television Corporation))

Wednesday 2 May 2018

• 14:00 - British Imperial Responsibility?: Reflections on disparate approaches to post-conflict reconciliation and transitional justice: Malaya, Cyprus, Kenya, and Northern Ireland
  Professor David Anderson (University of Warwick), Professor Karl Hack (The Open University), Dr Cheryl Lawther (Queens University Belfast), Dr Iosif Kovras (City University Of London)
  Violence Studies Research Network
• 17:00 - ‘Recognising the true Lord: a Confucian approach to Islamic theology in the writings of the Chinese Muslim scholar Liu Zhi’
  Dr James Frankel (Hong Kong)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:15 - ‘Mercenaries, Militiamen, and Modernity: the Rhetoric of Military Reform in Nassau c. 1580-1620’ & 'Another Attempt at Greatness: Swedish finances and administration in occupied Poland (1655-1657)’
  Louis Morris (Oxford), Alex Turchyn (Oxford)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 3 May 2018

• 17:00 - UN, Political Islam, and the Middle East
  Edward Mortimer (University of Oxford)
• 17:00 - Film screening: Nasser's Republic, The making of Modern Egypt
  Michal Goldman (Director)

Friday 4 May 2018

• 17:00 - Cultural Revolution: Personal Experiences
  Ji-Li Jiang

Monday 7 May 2018

• 17:00 - The South African Special Branch v The New African 1962-4: Censorship by harassment of a radical journal
  James Currey (Founder of James Currey, publisher)
  African History & Politics Seminars
• 17:00 - Woman in finance & Formalisation through taxation - Two student presentations
  Please join us for refreshments and nibbles after the talks
  Kristina Kaempfer (St Antony's College, Oxford), Jonas Richter (St Antony's College, Oxford)
  Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM)

Tuesday 8 May 2018

• 10:00 - Europe and the West – Past, Present and Future
  Professor Peter Frankopan
  Europaeum: Before War, After War
• 11:30 - Approaches to Gender in Political Theory with Amelie Bescont
  Amelie Bescont (Sciences Po)
  Centre for Gender, Identity and Subjectivity Discussion Group (formerly Reading Group)
• 13:00 - International Criminal Law and Border Control: The Expressive Role of the Deportation and Extradition of Rwandan Citizens
  A light sandwich lunch will be served from 12:45pm
  Dr Nicola Palmer (King's College London)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Globalisation, Public Policy and Labour
  Zaad Mahmood (ODID, Presidency University, Kolkata)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Wednesday 9 May 2018

• 16:00 - The Failure of South Asian Regionalism
  Lawrence Sáez (SOAS)
  India on the World Stage: International Relations of India Seminar Series
• 17:00 - ‘Al-Azhar and the Ulama’
  Professor Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen (Copenhagen)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 10 May 2018

• 17:00 - Government needs to get better at policy-making; more open and connected with people
  Dr Andrea Siodmok (Policy Lab, Cabinet Office)
  Science and populism: from evidence to narrative (Oxford Martin School, Oxford Institute of Population Ageing and University College Joint Series)

Friday 11 May 2018

• 14:00 - The Schmitesen Court: The Question of Legitimacy
  Or Bassok (University of Nottingham)
  OxonCourts
• 17:00 - Film screening: 1948
  Professor Avi Shlaim (MEC Emeritus Fellow), Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, Oxford)
• 17:30 - Navigation by judgment: why and when top down management of foreign aid doesn’t work
  Dan Honig (Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies)

Monday 14 May 2018

• 13:00 - Book colloquium: Chocolate, Politics and Peace-Building: An Ethnography of the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó, Colombia
  A light sandwich lunch will be served from 12:45pm
  Gwen Burnyeat (University College London), Dr Laura Rival (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Book Launch: Economies after colonialism: Ghana and the struggle for power (CUP)
  Lindsay Whitfield (Roskilde)
  African History & Politics Seminars

Tuesday 15 May 2018

• 14:00 - Peopling Policy Processes? Methodological Populism in the Bangladesh Health and Education Sectors
  David Lewis (LSE)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Wednesday 16 May 2018

• 14:00 - The subnational links between oil wealth and armed conflict in Colombia
  Juan D. Gutiérrez-Rodríguez (DPhil (PhD) student in public policy), Annette Idler (Director of Studies, Changing Character of War Centre)
  Violence Studies Research Network
• 14:00 - Shifting Legal Visions: Judicial Change and Human Rights Trials in Latin America
  Dr Ezequiel Gonzalez-Ocantos (University of Oxford)
  OxonCourts
• 16:00 - The Forgotten Histories of Indian International Relations
  Martin Bayly (LSE)
  India on the World Stage: International Relations of India Seminar Series
• 17:00 - ‘Speculative men: thinking analogically about Islam and Christian sectarianism in seventeenth and eighteenth century England’
  Professor Ros Ballaster
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:15 - ‘Forged Through Fire: War and the Democratic Bargain?’
  Frances McCall Rosenbluth (Yale)
  History of War Seminar Series
• 17:30 - How dangerous are current threats to liberal democracy?
  The Hon. Kevin Rudd (former Prime Minister of Australia)
  Exeter College Rector's Seminar Series

Thursday 17 May 2018

• 17:00 - Science on the front line: getting good quality evidence into the news
  Fiona Fox (Science Media Centre)
  Science and populism: from evidence to narrative (Oxford Martin School, Oxford Institute of Population Ageing and University College Joint Series)

Friday 18 May 2018

• 17:00 - Film Screening: Through Ottoman Eyes
  Umran Safter (Director)

Monday 21 May 2018

• 13:00 - Amnesties and Inclusive Political Settlements
  A light sandwich lunch will be served from 12:45pm
  Professor Louise Mallinder (Transitional Justice Institute at Ulster University)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 16:30 - 2018 Uehiro Lecture One: Dementia & The Social Scaffold Of Memory
  Prof Richard Holton (University of Cambridge)
  Annual Uehiro Lectures
• 17:00 - The Gulf and the Horn: Changing geographies of security interdependence and competing visions of regional order
  Harry Verhoeven (Georgetown University in Qatar)
  African History & Politics Seminars
• 17:00 - To be or not to be in the Eurozone? The answer from Prague
  Please note: This talk will take place in the Pavilion Room, top floor of the Gateway Building at St Antony's College.
  Mojmir Hampl (Vice Governor, Czech National Bank)
  Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM)

Tuesday 22 May 2018

• 10:00 - Europe’s World Wars, the British Raj and the Arrival of Indian Independence
  Dr Paul Flather
  Europaeum: Before War, After War
• 11:30 - Psychoanalysis and History
  Various Speakers
  Centre for Gender, Identity and Subjectivity Discussion Group (formerly Reading Group)
• 17:00 - 2018 Uehiro Lecture Two: Addiction, Desire, And The Polluted Environment
  Prof Richard Holton (University of Cambridge)
  Annual Uehiro Lectures

Wednesday 23 May 2018

• 12:30 - What can we learn from the Australian retirement income system?
  Light lunch provided
  Ron Bird (University of Technology Sydney), Nicholas Morris (University of New South Wales, Sydney)
  Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM)
• 14:00 - Women's Rights Research Seminar: The Archaeology of Experience of Domestic Violence against women in Iran
  Shahla Tizro (York St John University)
• 17:00 - ‘1918: The fall of the Ottomans and the beginning of a century of conflict’
  Professor Eugene Rogan
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 24 May 2018

• 17:00 - 2018 Uehiro Lecture Three: Illness And Attitude
  Prof Richard Holton (University of Cambridge)
  Annual Uehiro Lectures
• 17:00 - Putting science at the heart of society and culture - Panel Discussion
  Professor Sarah Harper (Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, University of Oxford), Emily Wilson (New Scientist), Katherine Mathieson (British Science Association)
  Science and populism: from evidence to narrative (Oxford Martin School, Oxford Institute of Population Ageing and University College Joint Series)

Friday 25 May 2018

• 14:00 - Judicial Review in Norway: A Bicentennial Debate
  Change of Venue: St Cross Building, Seminar Room L
  Anine Kierulf (Law, Oslo University), Prof Aileen Kavanagh (Faculty of Law, University of Oxford)
  OxonCourts

Monday 28 May 2018

• 13:00 - A Glimpse Into Contested Indigenous Peoples’ Rights in Peru: The Forced Sterilization of Indigenous Women
  A light sandwich lunch will be served from 12:45pm
  Dr Ñusta Carranza Ko (Ohio Northern University)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Fragmentation in banking markets: the crisis legacy and the Brexit challenge
  Please note: This talk will take place in the Investcorp Building at St Antony's College.
  Andrea Enria (European Banking Authority)
  Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM)

Tuesday 29 May 2018

• 10:00 - Visions of Empire: Napoleonic Europe when the War is Over
  Professor Mike Broers
  Europaeum: Before War, After War
• 17:00 - 'The moral economy: why good incentives are no substitutes for good citizens’
  Professor Samuel Bowles (Sante Fe Institute)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:30 - Heading for a global trade war? The US, China and the future of the global trading system
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 30 May 2018

• 14:00 - Women's Rights Research Seminar: Tale of two Omani women
  Deena Al Asfoor (St Catherine's College)
• 17:00 - ‘The formation of a Turco-Islamic world region in and around the Oipchaq Steppe in the early modern age’
  Dr Joo-Yup Lee (Toronto )
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:15 - ‘Glamping with Guns: Louis XIV, the Camp of Compiègne and the Origins of the Modern Military Exercise’
  Guy Rowlands (St Andrews)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 31 May 2018

• 17:00 - Future of the Left Seminar Series: The Everyday Economy
  Rachel Reeves MP
  Future of the Left Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Stats and studies are not enough: how to gain people's trust in scientific authority
  Nicky Hawkins (FrameWorks Institute)
  Science and populism: from evidence to narrative (Oxford Martin School, Oxford Institute of Population Ageing and University College Joint Series)
• 17:00 - Crime, Sovereignty, and the State: On the Metaphysics of Global Disorder
  Jean Comaroff (Harvard), John Comaroff (Harvard)
  Rethinking the Contemporary: The World since the Cold War
• 17:00 - Islamic Umma and Nationalism in a Postmodern World
  Katrin A. Jomaa (University of Rhode Island)

Friday 1 June 2018

• 14:00 - Managerial Practices at the International Criminal Court: Enhancing efficiency or reinforcing hegemony?
  Richard Clements (Law, University of Cambridge)
  OxonCourts

Saturday 2 June 2018

• 17:00 - 'Reaping the Rewards: How the Governor, the Priest, the Taxman, and the Garrison Secure Victory in World History'
  Professor Wayne E. Lee (UNC)

Tuesday 5 June 2018

• 10:00 - Title TBC
  Unfortunately, this talk has been cancelled.
  Dr Gabriela Frei
  Europaeum: Before War, After War

Wednesday 6 June 2018

• 17:00 - ‘Humanitarianism, gender and religion in forced migration’
  Dr Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - “Let language not betray us”: immigration, enforcement and modern slavery | Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture 2018
  Professor Bridget Anderson (University of Bristol)
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures
• 17:30 - Negotiating with North Korea
  Various Speakers

Thursday 7 June 2018

• 17:00 - Governments across Europe need to be more candid with their citizens
  Robin Niblett (Chatham House)
  Science and populism: from evidence to narrative (Oxford Martin School, Oxford Institute of Population Ageing and University College Joint Series)
• 17:00 - Annual George Antonius Memorial Lecture
  Moncef Marzouki (Former President of Tunisia)
• 17:00 - CANCELLED: Future of the Left Seminar Series: Jon Trickett MP
  This event has been CANCELLED.
  Jon Trickett MP (Labour Party)
  Future of the Left Seminar Series

Friday 8 June 2018

• 10:00 - Studying Judicial Disagreement Quantitatively: The Case of Judges on the UK Supreme Court **PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF TIME**
  Change of time: starts at 10 AM
  Lindsay Stirton (Law, University of Sussex)
  OxonCourts
• 17:00 - Liberty, Equality, and Alienation
  Akeel Bilgrami (Columbia )
  Rethinking the Contemporary: The World since the Cold War

Monday 11 June 2018

• 12:30 - The REF policy for Open Access - why and what?
  Claire Fraser (Research England)
  Open Scholarship
• 14:00 - Help! I'm an author, get me out of here
  Sally Rumsey (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship
• 16:30 - Creating Wakanda: Youth, Technology and Entrepreneurship Across Africa
  Strive Masiyiwa (Econet Wireless), Atherton Mutombwera (Hutano Diagnostics Ltd), Jessica Price (Rhodes Incubator)

Tuesday 12 June 2018

• 11:30 - Play the Publishing Trap game
  Jane Secker (UK Copyright Literacy), Chris Morrison (UK Copyright Literacy)
  Open Scholarship
• 14:00 - NIHR Open Access policy and progress
  Justin Riordan-Jones (Department of Health & Social Care)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - The Max Watson Lecture: Demise of doctrine: Policy making in the real world
  Caroline Atkinson (Former Head of Global Policy at Google)
  Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM)

Wednesday 13 June 2018

• 12:15 - Digital theses and open access
  Sarah Barkla (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 14:00 - Latest developments in altmetrics
  Jean Liu (Altmetric)
  Open Scholarship
• 14:00 - Lecture-The Question of Judeo-Arabic: Nation, Partition, and the Linguistic Imaginary
  Ella Shohat (New York University)
• 17:00 - Book Event: On the Arab Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements
  Ella Shohat (New York University)
• 17:15 - ‘Royal Engineers, Railways, and the Retreat: Longmoor's Role in Delaying the Japanese Advance through Burma in 1942’
  Michael Charney (SOAS)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 14 June 2018

• 13:00 - Social Sciences in Times of Brexit
  Various Speakers
• 14:30 - Workshop: Memory, Memoirs, and History
  Ella Shohat (New York University), Professor Avi Shlaim (MEC Emeritus Fellow)
• 17:00 - Creating opportunities to think deeply about science - Panel discussion
  Dr Roger Highfield (Science Museum Group), Professor Sarah Harper (Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, University of Oxford), Professor Paul Smith (Oxford University Museum of Natural History), Dr Xa Sturgis (Director of the Ashmolean Museum)
  Science and populism: from evidence to narrative (Oxford Martin School, Oxford Institute of Population Ageing and University College Joint Series)
• 17:00 - Future of the Left Seminar Series: Where the Left (and Right) went wrong
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Nick Timothy (Joint Chief of Staff for Theresa May, 2016-2017)
  Future of the Left Seminar Series

Friday 15 June 2018

• 11:00 - The EU and open access: OpenAire and Horizon 2020
  Frank Manista (JISC)
  Open Scholarship
• 13:00 - Open Access: A pubisher's perspective
  Various Speakers
  Open Scholarship
• 14:00 - US Courts on Agency Valuation of Environmental Benefits
  Sroyon Mukherjee (Law, LSE)
  OxonCourts

Tuesday 19 June 2018

• 14:00 - Perspectives on history, historiography and politics
  Romila Thapar (Jawaharlal Nehru University)

Wednesday 20 June 2018

• 17:00 - Barbara Harrell-Bond: A life not ordinary | Refugee Week film screening
  TBA
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures

Thursday 21 June 2018

• 11:00 - Panel Discussion: Neurotech Now, and Beyond the Horizon
  Professor Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Duke University), Dr Hannah Maslen (Oxford Martin School ), Dr Emilian Mihailov (University of Bucharest), Dr Cristian Iftode (University of Bucharest), Dr Hazem Zohny (University of Oxford)

Friday 22 June 2018

• 08:30 - Greek Diaspora Conference: Homeland‒diaspora relations in flux
  Tea and coffee included during breaks. Lunch not included.
  Various Speakers
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)

Thursday 27 September 2018

• 17:30 - Fake News and the Politics of Truth
  Professor Michael Lynch (University of Connecticut)

Monday 8 October 2018

• 13:00 - The New Global Multidimensional Poverty Index
  A sandwich lunch is available on a first come, first served basis.
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Sabina Alkire (University of Oxford), Dr Usha Kanagaratnam (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative)
  Archive: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 13:00 - The ICC Rohingya Case: Radical or Routine?
  The talk will begin at 13:15, light sandwich lunch will be served from 13:00
  Prof Payam Akhavan (McGill University)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 19:15 - Panel Discussion: Climate change – what is coming?
  Simon Lewis (Professor of Global Change Science, University College London and University of Leeds), Rachel James (Research Fellow, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 9 October 2018

• 14:00 - How India became democratic
  Ornit Shani (Haifa)
  Modern South Asia Seminar
• 17:00 - Red Flags: Why Xi's China is in Jeopardy
  Mr George Magnus (Adviser and former Chief Economist, UBS)

Wednesday 10 October 2018

• 17:00 - 'Islamic charities since the 1970s: a record of growth and suppression’
  Mr Jonathan Benthall (UCL)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 11 October 2018

• 14:00 - Health economics of integrated care: another response to an ageing population
  Dr Apostolos Tsiachristas (Senior Researcher in Health Economics, University of Oxford)
  Providing Health and Social Care for an Ageing Population: Challenges and Responses
• 17:30 - Deputy Head, Chinese Embassy UK: China’s Reform and Future
  Deputy Head of Mission Zhu Qin (Chinese Embassy UK)

Friday 12 October 2018

• 09:00 - Political Economy of Finance conference for early career researchers
  Various Speakers
• 16:00 - ‘War/Time: Global Histories of a Local Conflict in the Horn of Africa’
  Richard Reid (St Cross, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - “The Challenges of Human Development in 21st Century Africa"
  His Excellency, Professor Yemi Osinbajo (Vice President of Nigeria)
• 17:00 - Are we safer now? Ten years since the Global Financial Crisis
  Professor Karthik Ramanna (Blavatnik School of Government), Sir John Vickers (All Souls College, University of Oxford), Dr Emily Jones (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford), Grace Blakely (IPPR Commission on Economic Justice), Giles Keating (Werthstein Institute & Former Global Chief Economist, Credit Suisse)

Monday 15 October 2018

• 13:00 - Multidimensional poverty reduction in India: changes over time
  A sandwich lunch is available on a first come, first served basis.
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Sabina Alkire (University of Oxford)
  Archive: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Keynote Seminar: Judge Flavia Lattanzi at OTJR
  The talk will begin at 13:15, light sandwich lunch will be served from 13:00
  Prof Flavia Lattanzi
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Tuesday 16 October 2018

• 12:30 - ‘Thomas Jefferson and William Short: confronting the gender frontier in revolutionary Paris’
  Peter Thompson
  American History Research Seminar
• 14:00 - India’s new Indian Ocean vision: Outward syncretization, inward Hinduization?
  Kate Sullivan de Estrada (St Antony's College)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Wednesday 17 October 2018

• 17:00 - ‘”Becoming Muslim”: The archaeology and trade in Eastern Ethiopia’
  Professor Timothy Insoll (Exeter)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Beyond the economic crisis: Greece’s other existential challenges
  Kyriakos Pierrakakis (Director of Reserach, diaNEOsis)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
• 17:15 - ‘Remembering and Forgetting Mirambo: Histories of Pre-Colonial War in Modern Africa’
  Richard Reid (Oxford)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 18 October 2018

• 14:00 - Good Care at Home for Older Adults in Singapore: Ethical, practical and policy dimensions
  Dr Michael Dunn (Ethox Centre)
  Providing Health and Social Care for an Ageing Population: Challenges and Responses
• 17:00 - In a troubled and polarized Middle-East: challenges for Palestine refugees and UNRWA | Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture 2018
  Pierre Krähenbühl (UNRWA)
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures
• 17:15 - Interdisciplinary Food Systems Teaching and Learning Programme 2018/19 Launch
  Dr John Ingram (Food Systems Programme Leader, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford), Dr Rebecca White (University of Oxford)

Friday 19 October 2018

• 14:00 - Who writes? Explaining authorship on the Supreme Court
  Professor Chris Hanretty (Royal Holloway, University of London)
  OxonCourts
• 16:00 - ‘Celebrating Religious Diversity: Early Modern Russia and the Power of Typological Thinking’
  Valerie Kivelson (Michigan)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - MEC Friday Seminar - Lords of the Desert: Britain’s struggle with America to dominate the Middle East
  James Barr ((King's College London))
  MEC Friday Seminar Series

Monday 22 October 2018

• 13:00 - Poverty traps and child well-being in South Africa
  A sandwich lunch is available on a first come, first served basis.
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Marisa von Fintel (Stellenbosch University)
  Archive: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 13:00 - ‘Battling for (In)justice: Resurgent Authoritarianism, Ongoing Conflict, and Transitional Justice in the Arab Region’
  The talk will commence at 13:15, a light sandwich lunch is served from 13:00.
  Dr Noha Aboueldahab (Brookings Doha Center)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Political risks in Europe: Brexit and its impact on businesses
  Mujtaba Rahman (MujtabEurasia Group, Europe)
  Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM)

Tuesday 23 October 2018

• 12:30 - ‘John Hope Franklin and the racial politics of popular history’
  Nick Witham (UCL)
  American History Research Seminar
• 14:00 - Sri Lanka In and Out of South Asia
  Mick Moore (Institute of Development Studies)
  Modern South Asia Seminar
• 16:00 - Social Brain and Behaviour Club: Feeling in Seeing : Embodiment, Affect & Visual Politics (when News are Fake)
  Professor Manos Tsakiris (Lab of Action & Body, Dep of Psychology, Royal Holloway & The Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London )
• 17:00 - Book launch: Khalil Maleki -The Human Face of Iranian Socialism
  Homa Katouzian (Iran Heritage Foundation Research Fellow, St Antony's)

Wednesday 24 October 2018

• 11:30 - ‘Gendered Sensations: the intersection of gender and sensory histories in the early 20th century’
  Sasha Rasmussen
  Centre for Gender, Identity and Subjectivity Discussion Group (formerly Reading Group)
• 14:00 - Women's Rights Research Seminar- Between Love and Lineage: Elopement, Rights and Violence in an Afghan Valley
  Naysan Adlparvar (Yale University)
  Women's Rights Research Seminar
• 17:00 - ‘The world in the year 1000: new connections within and beyond the Islamic world’
  Professor Valerie Hansen (Yale)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Constitutional Morality: An Approach to Constitutional Interpretation
  Surabhi Shukla (University of Oxford)
  South Asian Political Thought Discussion Group
• 17:30 - Sir John Curtice: Brexit and the future of British politics
  Sir John Curtice (British Polling Council)

Thursday 25 October 2018

• 14:00 - Trends in emergency hospital admissions: age, cohort and period effects
  Raphael Wittenberg (Deputy Director, Centre for Health Service Economics and Organisation)
  Providing Health and Social Care for an Ageing Population: Challenges and Responses
• 15:30 - The Wrong Kind of Genocide: Anglo-American Newspaper Coverage of Mass Violence in the 1990s
  Dr David Patrick (University of the Free State)
  Violence Studies Research Network

Friday 26 October 2018

• 16:00 - ‘Locating the Silk Road(s) in History and Today’
  Valerie Hansen (Yale)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - MEC Friday Seminar - Preventing Palestine: A political history from Camp David to Oslo
  Seth Anziska (Mohamed S. Farsi-Polonsky Lecturer in Jewish-Muslim Relations, University College London)
  MEC Friday Seminar Series

Monday 29 October 2018

• 13:00 - ‘Colombian Outcast Youths and the Broken Promises of Transformative Justice’
  The talk will commence at 13:15, a light sandwich lunch is served from 13:00.
  Elena Butti (CSLS, University of Oxford)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Zimbabwe’s 2018 Election Roundtable
  Sara-Rich Dorman (Senior Lecturer in Politics and IR, the University of Edinburgh), Farai Chipato (PhD candidate, Queen Mary), Nic Cheeseman (Professor of Democracy, the University of Birmingham)
  African History & Politics Seminars
• 18:00 - Your Freedom and Mine: Abdullah Öcalan and the Kurdish Question in Turkey
  Dr Thomas Jeffrey Miley (University of Cambridge), Rohash Xelil (Kongra Star UK), Simon Dubbins (Unite the Union), Dr Felix Padel (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 30 October 2018

• 12:30 - 'The color of hours: race, time and space in post-industrial urban America’
  Paul Lawrie (Winnipeg)
  American History Research Seminar
• 14:00 - The problem of origins in Early Modern Eurasian empires
  Ali Anooshahr (University of California at Davis)
  Modern South Asia Seminar
• 17:00 - Book Launch: Christian Martyrs under Islam
  Christian C. Sahner (Associate Professor of Islamic History, Faculty of Oriental Studies)
• 17:00 - Conflicting truths. How does government listen to scientists?
  Dr Claire Craig (Director of Science Policy, Royal Society)
  Science and populism: from evidence to narrative (Oxford Martin School, Oxford Institute of Population Ageing and University College Joint Series)

Wednesday 31 October 2018

• 17:00 - ‘Jeddah 100 years ago…through the French lense’
  Dr Louis Blin (French Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:15 - ‘Testing the “Laws of War”: The Russian Army’s Conduct on the Danube Front in the 1877-78 Russo-Turkish War’.
  Peter Holquist (University of Pennsylvania)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 1 November 2018

• 14:00 - Population ageing and implications for future end of life care provision
  Ms Anna Bone (King's College London)
  Providing Health and Social Care for an Ageing Population: Challenges and Responses

Friday 2 November 2018

• 14:00 - Is Legal Mobilization for the Birds? Legal Opportunity Structures and Environmental Nongovernmental Organizations in the United Kingdom, France, Finland, and Italy
  Dr Lisa Vanhala (University College London)
  OxonCourts
• 14:00 - Knowledge Production in Colonial and Post-colonial History
  In association with the ‘Comparing the Copperbelt’ ERC funded project.
  Various Speakers
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - MEC Friday Seminar - Iraq after the elections: A new beginning? (Panel discussion)
  Renad Mansour (Chatham House), Harith Hasan (Central European University), Hayder al-Khoei (University of Exeter)
  MEC Friday Seminar Series

Monday 5 November 2018

• 13:00 - A meta-analysis of Oxfam’s women’s empowerment projects
  A sandwich lunch is available on a first come, first served basis.
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Simone Lombardini (Oxfam)
  Archive: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Book Launch: ‘When Political Transitions Work: Reconciliation as Interdependence’
  The talk will commence at 13:15, a light sandwich lunch is served from 13:00.
  Fanie du Toit (UNDP Iraq)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Navigating global challenges: An insurance viewpoint
  Julian Adams (Prudential)
  Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM)

Tuesday 6 November 2018

• 14:00 - The Political anthropology of India
  Anastasia Piliavsky (University of Cambridge)
  Modern South Asia Seminar
• 17:00 - What’s the point of engaging the public in science and health research?
  Imran Khan (Head of Public Engagement, Wellcome Trust)
  Science and populism: from evidence to narrative (Oxford Martin School, Oxford Institute of Population Ageing and University College Joint Series)
• 17:45 - Romanes Lecture: Dr Vint Cerf - Co-inventor of the Internet
  Dr Vint Cerf

Wednesday 7 November 2018

• 11:30 - Finding Rape in the Archives: Methodologies for Hearing Survivor Voices from the Past
  Lucia Akard
  Centre for Gender, Identity and Subjectivity Discussion Group (formerly Reading Group)
• 14:00 - ‘Brexit’s challenge to Eurosceptic populism’
  TBA
  Seminar 'Brexit, Populism and Mainstream Politics'
• 17:00 - ‘The Russian conquest of Central Asia in Persianate historiography’
  Dr Alexander Morrison
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Civil society on the edge: The Greek experience
  Xenophon Kappas (Captain Vassilis and Carmen Constantakopoulos Foundation)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)

Thursday 8 November 2018

• 14:00 - Untangling the Gordian Knot: in pursuit of person-centred, integrated care for ageing populations
  Dr Caroline Potter (Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford)
  Providing Health and Social Care for an Ageing Population: Challenges and Responses
• 17:00 - Where next for Social Policy?
  TBA
  Sidney Ball Memorial Lecture series
• 17:00 - Progress and perils along the way to a Banking Union
  Daniel Hardy (IMF)
  Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM)

Friday 9 November 2018

• 16:00 - ‘The First World War and the Reimagination of Empire in the British and French Caribbean’
  Michael Joseph (Pembroke, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Film screening and book discussion - Transnationalism in Iranian Political Thought: The Fabulous Life and Thought of Ahmad Fardid
  Ali Mirsepassi (Albert Gallatin Research Excellence Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, New York University)
  MEC Friday Seminar Series

Monday 12 November 2018

• 13:00 - Defining and Measuring Health Poverty
  A sandwich lunch is available on a first come, first served basis.
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Philip Clarke (University of Oxford)
  Archive: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 13:00 - ‘Reparation for Victims of Mass Atrocities: Reflections on Key Challenges’
  The talk will commence at 13:15, a light sandwich lunch is served from 13:00.
  Professor Clara Sandoval (University of Essex )
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Between Conservatism and Pragmatism: Crafting a human rights-based approach to HIV/AIDS related services for women in the Middle East
  Dr Kamiar Alaei (Co-president, Institute for International Health and Education)
  Women's Rights Research Seminar
• 16:00 - Reducing Poverty and Building Peace in Colombia: Inextricably Linked Processes
  Juan Manuel Santos (Former President of Colombia and Nobel Peace Laureate)
  ODID Distinguished Speaker Series
• 17:00 - Centralisation of power in Turkey: Is it sustainable?
  In association with SEESOX
  Ezgi Başaran (St Antony's College, Oxford), Charles Enoch (St Antony's College, Oxford), Mehmet Karli (Centre for International Studies, Oxford)
  Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM)

Tuesday 13 November 2018

• 14:00 - Marketing Muslims: Islam in the Bazaars of Modern South Asia
  Ali Altaf Mian (Seattle)
  Modern South Asia Seminar
• 17:00 - The Harmsworth Lecture in American History: ‘War, race, and anti-imperialism in Merze Tate’s international thought’
  TBA
  American History Research Seminar

Wednesday 14 November 2018

• 17:00 - ‘The political legacy of Islamic conquest’
  Dr Faisal Z. Ahmed (Princeton )
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Balkan Legacies of the Great War
  Please join us in the Common Room after the talk for drinks and canapes.
  Othon Anastasakis (St Antony's College, University of Oxford), David Madden (St Antony's College, Oxford), Elizabeth Roberts (Weidenfeld Scholarships Programme)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
• 17:15 - Russian navy 1900-17 & Republican Chinese navy
  Benjamin Eacott (Oxford), Woody Di Wu (Oxford)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 15 November 2018

• 12:30 - The Macedonia name issue: Solved at last?
  Light lunch provided.
  TBA
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)

Friday 16 November 2018

• 14:00 - Court Presidents: The Missing Piece in the Puzzle of Judicial Self-Governance
  Change of Topic
  Dr David Kosař (Masaryk University)
  OxonCourts
• 16:00 - ‘Comparing Russian Settler Colonialism’
  Alexander Morrison (New College, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - And then God created the Middle East and said let there be breaking news
  Karl Sharro (Architect, satirist and Middle East commentator)
  MEC Friday Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Communicating robust science
  Clive Cookson (Science Editor, Financial Times)
  Science and populism: from evidence to narrative (Oxford Martin School, Oxford Institute of Population Ageing and University College Joint Series)

Monday 19 November 2018

• 13:00 - Measurement of Multidimensional Inequality of Opportunity in India: changes across regions and time
  A sandwich lunch is available on a first come, first served basis.
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Sayli Javadekar (University of Geneva)
  Archive: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 13:00 - ‘The Legality of Rebel Courts during Non-International Armed Conflicts’
  The talk will commence at 13:15, a light sandwich lunch is served from 13:00.
  Dr Mark Klamberg (Stockholm University)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 15:00 - Sexual Violence in Conflict: Pramila Patten
  Pramila Patten (United Nations)
• 17:00 - Why science matters for policy
  Dr Patrick Vallance (Government Chief Scientific Adviser)
  Science and populism: from evidence to narrative (Oxford Martin School, Oxford Institute of Population Ageing and University College Joint Series)
• 17:00 - The EU’s monetary and financial policies: The core and the periphery
  Charles Enoch (St Antony's College, Oxford)
  Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM)

Tuesday 20 November 2018

• 13:00 - Harmsworth Lecture discussion
  Sandwich lunch from 12.30pm.
  Various Speakers
  American History Research Seminar
• 14:00 - West Africans in WW2 India
  Oliver Coates
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Wednesday 21 November 2018

• 14:00 - ‘The Bruges Speech thirty years on: assessing its Brexit legacy’
  TBA
  Seminar 'Brexit, Populism and Mainstream Politics'
• 17:00 - ‘The politics of Islamic law: colonialism, mobility, translation’
  Dr Iza Hussin (Cambridge)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - A Social Psychology of Mob Lynchings in India
  Vatsal Naresh (Yale University)
  South Asian Political Thought Discussion Group

Thursday 22 November 2018

• 14:00 - The Problem of Understanding Multi-Morbidity in the Elderly
  Professor Alan Silman (Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford)
  Providing Health and Social Care for an Ageing Population: Challenges and Responses

Friday 23 November 2018

• 16:00 - ‘Debating the Great Divergence from the Demise of the Ming (1618-44) to the Industrialization of Western Europe (1756-1846)’
  Patrick O’Brien (St Antony’s, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 16:00 - ‘Encyclopédie Nouvelle’ Seminar
  Various Speakers
  ‘Encyclopédie Nouvelle’ Seminar
• 17:00 - The future of Israel, its Arab minority and implication for Palestine
  Marwan Bishara (Al Jazeera/St Antony's College)
  MEC Friday Seminar Series

Monday 26 November 2018

• 13:00 - Towards a Global Asset Indicator: re-assessing the asset indicator in the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index
  A sandwich lunch is available on a first come, first served basis.
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Frank Vollmer (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative)
  Archive: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 14:00 - 'The Death of the ICC? The Politics of International Criminal Justice in Africa'
  NB: Please note the time/venue change! Due to increased demand, the event will take place at 2-4pm in The Cube seminar room. Discussants: Prof Payam Akhavan (McGill) and Dr Holly Porter (LSE) Co-hosted with the Oxford Central Africa Forum * A light sandwich lunch is served from 2pm outside of The Cube*
  Dr Phil Clark (SOAS), Prof Payam Akhavan (McGill University), Dr Holly Porter (LSE)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Europe's Growth Champion: Insights from the Economic Rise of Poland
  Marcin Piatkowski (World Bank)
  Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM)

Tuesday 27 November 2018

• 14:00 - Hierarchy and Imperialism in Late Colonial Indian International Thought
  Martin Bayly (LSE)
  Modern South Asia Seminar
• 16:00 - Look Back in Anger: Visuality and Violence in Contemporary Women’s Movement in India
  Mallarika Sinha Roy (Centre for Women’s Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University)
  ODID Special Lectures & Seminars

Wednesday 28 November 2018

• 14:00 - ‘Playing with fire can get you burnt: conventional politics, populism - and Brexit’
  TBA
  Seminar 'Brexit, Populism and Mainstream Politics'
• 17:00 - ‘Siyasa Shari-iyya: some insights from nineteenth-century Egypt’
  Professor Khaled Fahmy (American University of Cairo )
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Sheikh Zayed Book Award: Contemporary Arab Fiction - Event cancelled
  Khalil Sweileh, Abdel Rasheed Mahmoudi
• 17:00 - People and the frontiers of science: social science for the 21st Century
  Prof Jennifer Rubin (Executive Chair, ESRC)
  Science and populism: from evidence to narrative (Oxford Martin School, Oxford Institute of Population Ageing and University College Joint Series)
• 17:00 - British-Turkish relations after Brexit: Strategic partners?
  Yaprak Gürsoy (Aston University), Simon Waldman (King's College London)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
• 17:15 - ‘The Legacy of War: Transitional Justice in Early Modern France’
  David van der Linden (Groningen)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 29 November 2018

• 14:00 - Sustainable care for old age: the long-term care system in Japan. What can England learn?
  THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED! Apologies
  Ms Nina Hemmings (Nuffield Trust)
  Providing Health and Social Care for an Ageing Population: Challenges and Responses
• 17:00 - Film Screening: Life is Wonderful: Mandela’s Unsung Heroes
  Various Speakers

Friday 30 November 2018

• 16:00 - Empire of Accumulation: Consumer Value and the Labor Question in British and American Nineteenth Century Expansion
  Bronwen Everill (Cambridge)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Exhibition and Panel Discussion: The Palestinian History Tapestry
  Shelagh Weir (Former Curator, British Museum), Jan.Lady Chalmers (Palestinian History Tapestry), Doaa Hammoudeh (St Antony’s College), Karl Sabbagh (Documentary maker and writer)
  MEC Friday Seminar Series

Monday 14 January 2019

• 13:00 - Women's empowerment in Tunisia: a discrete choice experiment to elicit weights for a multidimensional index
  A sandwich lunch is available on a first come, first served basis.
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Natalie Quinn (University of Oxford)
  Archive: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Journalism and Transitional Justice: Seminar + Workshop
  NB: The presentation will be followed by an editorial and publishing workshop given by Mr. Cruvellier. The workshop will commence after a short break at 3pm. Light refreshments will be provided.
  Thierry Cruvellier (JusticeInfo.net and Fondation Hirondelle)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Tuesday 15 January 2019

• 12:30 - The Driveress and the Nurse: Childcare and Other Work under Caribbean Slavery
  Diana Paton (University of Edinburgh)
  American History Research Seminar
• 14:15 - Israel Studies Seminar - When Climate Takes Command: Jewish-Zionist Scientific Approaches to Climate in Palestine
  Ms. Netta Cohen ((Oxford))
  Israel Studies Seminar series Hilary Term 2019
• 17:00 - Indigenous Survival: A History of Seminoles in the American Southeast and Greater Caribbean
  Mandy Izadi (Oxford)
  Oxford Transnational and Global History Seminar
• 17:00 - Indigenous Survival: A History of Seminoles in the American Southeast and Greater Caribbean
  Mandy Izadi (Oxford)
  Oxford Transnational and Global History Seminar

Wednesday 16 January 2019

• 17:00 - "Becoming Muslim”: The archaeology of Islamisation and trade in Eastern Ethiopia
  Professor Timothy Insoll (Exeter)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Diaspora entrepreneurs and contested states
  Maria Koinova (University of Warwick), Kalypso Nicolaidis (St Antony's College)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)

Thursday 17 January 2019

• 10:45 - Political Context, History Teaching and National Identity: New approaches to European Education
  Various Speakers
• 11:00 - Paris-London 1948-1995: Rai, Reggae and the Making of an Exhibition on Multi-Cultural Protest Music at the French Museum of the History of Immigration
  Martin Evans
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - African Studies Centre Seminar - Special Issue Launch - Student Activism in an Era of Decolonisation
  Dan Hodgkinson (University of Oxford), Luke Melchiorre (Universidad de los Andes), Marcia Schenck (Freie Universitat Berlin)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Friday 18 January 2019

• 16:00 - ‘Global science, national horizons: paleontology, astronomy and Antarctic research in South Africa’
  Saul Dubow (Cambridge)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The Ford Lectures - After the Black Death: Old problems, new approaches
  Professor Mark Bailey (University of East Anglia)
  The James Ford Lectures 2017 - Family and Empire: Kinship and British Colonialism in the East India Company Era, c. 1750-1850
• 17:00 - Sir Ivan Rogers: On Brexit
  Sir Ivan Rogers (formerly Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the European Union)
• 17:00 - MEC Friday Seminar - Applying shari'a in modern times: Some reflections from 19th century Egypt
  Khaled Fahmy (Cambridge University)
  Middle East Centre Friday seminars Hilary Term 2019

Monday 21 January 2019

• 11:00 - Politics Scriptorium
  TBA
  Politics Scriptorium
• 13:00 - Film Screening: ‘The Faces We Lost’: A Memorial Landscape of Contemporary Rwanda
  A light sandwich lunch will be served from 1pm.
  Piotr Cieplak (University of Sussex)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Assessing deprivation with ordinal variables: depth sensitivity and poverty aversion
  A sandwich lunch is available on a first come, first served basis.
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Gaston Yalonetzky (University of Leeds)
  Archive: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Economic integration and the defence union
  Valerie Herzberg (Central Bank of Ireland)
  Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM)

Tuesday 22 January 2019

• 12:30 - Mother Is A Verb: British and North American Histories Since the Seventeenth Century
  Sarah Knott (University of Indiana)
  American History Research Seminar
• 14:00 - The Cast(e) of the Colonial Police: Constables and Chaukidars in Colonial Bengal
  Partha Shil (Trinity College, Cambridge)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 23 January 2019

• 17:00 - The ontological (in)security of similarity: Islamism in Saudi foreign policy
  Dr May Darwich (Durham)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Transnational citizenship: Views of Serbia's active diaspora
  Tena Prelec (University of Sussex), Othon Anastasakis (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
• 17:15 - ‘Globalising WWII’ - Joint Session with the Oxford Centre for Global History
  Andrew Buchanan (University of Vermont)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 24 January 2019

• 11:00 - Trophy-Selfies, Military Masculinities, and the Epistemological Challenges of Photographs of Rape
  Elissa Mailänder
  Modern History Research Seminar

Friday 25 January 2019

• 14:00 - Conceptualizing, Measuring and Mapping the Formal Judicial Independence of International Courts
  Dr Theresa Squatrito (University of Liverpool)
  OxonCourts
• 16:00 - ‘Redefining the Caliphate: Indian Pan-Islamism in the early twentieth century’
  Faridah Zaman (Somerville, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The Ford Lectures - After the Black Death: Reaction and regulation
  Professor Mark Bailey (University of East Anglia)
  The James Ford Lectures 2017 - Family and Empire: Kinship and British Colonialism in the East India Company Era, c. 1750-1850
• 17:00 - MEC Friday Seminar - The Middle East: Should We Give Up?
  Joost Hiltermann (International Crisis Group)
  Middle East Centre Friday seminars Hilary Term 2019

Monday 28 January 2019

• 13:00 - ‘But what about men?’: Gender Discomfort in International Criminal Justice
  A light sandwich lunch will be served from 1pm.
  TBA
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Disrupting Warfare: How we use technology to help mitigate the effects of violent conflict on civilians in Syria and beyond.
  John Jaeger (Co-Founder & CEO, Hala Systems)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series
• 19:00 - OxWiR Seminar: Impact and Reflections
  TBA
  Oxford Women in Research (OxWiR) Seminar Series HT 2019

Tuesday 29 January 2019

• 12:30 - The inter-generational memories of the democratic transition in post-junta Greece
  Kostis Kornetis (Santander Visiting Fellow, St Antony's College, Oxford)
  ESC Visiting Academics Lunchtime Seminar Series Hilary Term 2019
• 14:00 - The Economics of Religion in India
  Sriya Iyer (University of Cambridge)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - MEC Seminar - The Rise of the Egyptian Middle Class: Socio-Economic Mobility and Public Discontent from Nasser to Sadat
  Relli Shechter (St Antony’s College)
• 17:00 - The Jan-Georg Deutsch Annual Debate - Motion: The Macro Scale of Global History Obscures More Than it Illuminates
  James Belich (Oxford), Stephen Tuffnell (Oxford)
  Oxford Transnational and Global History Seminar

Wednesday 30 January 2019

• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Professor Hugh Kennedy (SOAS)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Contested diasporic identities in times of crisis: The Other Bulgaria in the UK
  Elena Genova (University of Nottingham), Manolis Pratsinakis (DPIR, University of Oxford)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)

Thursday 31 January 2019

• 11:00 - Electric News in Colonial Algeria
  Arthur Asseraf
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The value of everything: rediscovering purpose in the economy (Joint Oxford Martin School/Blavatnik School of Government/INET Oxford Event)
  This event is now fully booked
  Mariana Mazzucato (University College London)
  Oxford Martin School Lecture Series: Evolving economic thought

Friday 1 February 2019

• 16:00 - ‘Cash Rules: Money and the British Empire in the Age of Revolutions’
  Andrew Edwards (Brasenose, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The Ford Lectures - After the Black Death: A mystery within an enigma: the economy, 1355-75
  Professor Mark Bailey (University of East Anglia)
  The James Ford Lectures 2017 - Family and Empire: Kinship and British Colonialism in the East India Company Era, c. 1750-1850
• 17:00 - MEC Friday Seminar - European policy on the Middle East: Making a difference?
  Nick Westcott (Director, Royal African Society)
  Middle East Centre Friday seminars Hilary Term 2019

Monday 4 February 2019

• 13:00 - Witness Testimony and the Negotiation of 'Culture' at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
  A light sandwich lunch will be served from 1pm.
  Nigel Eltringham (University of Sussex)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Child poverty in South Asia
  A sandwich lunch is available on a first come, first served basis.
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Sabina Alkire (University of Oxford)
  Archive: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 18:00 - Michael Møller: 3rd most senior UN official and Under-Secretary General in the UN
  Michael Møller (UN Geneva)
• 19:00 - OxWiR Seminar: Security, Safety and Logistics
  TBA
  Oxford Women in Research (OxWiR) Seminar Series HT 2019

Tuesday 5 February 2019

• 12:30 - Archiving Globalization of the United States, 1815-1861: Who Was 'Global' and Who Was Not
  Konstantin Dierks (University of Indiana)
  American History Research Seminar
• 12:30 - A Special Event held in collaboration with the American History Seminar - 'Archiving Globalization of the United States, 1815-1861: Who Was 'Global' and Who Was Not
  Please note this event is at 12:30-14:00 at the Rothermere American Institute
  Konstantin Dierks (Indiana)
  Oxford Transnational and Global History Seminar
• 14:00 - Unfixed land and the making of Contemporary India
  Nikita Sud (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:30 - Big banks and corruption in global finance
  Bradley Hope (Wall Street Journal), Jason Sharman (University of Cambridge), Dr Emily Jones (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford)

Wednesday 6 February 2019

• 17:00 - History in tables: Muʿīn al-Dīn Naṭanzī's “synoptic account” of the Timurid history and its complete manuscript
  Dr İlker Evrim Binbaş (Bonn)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Fragmented communities: Diaspora politics in the UK’s Turkish-speaking community
  Mustafa Cakmak (Keele University)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
• 17:15 - Money and the First World War
  Jonathan Boff (Birmingham)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 7 February 2019

• 11:00 - Celia Johnson’s Grief: mourning and remembrance in post-Second World War Britain
  Lucy Noakes
  Modern History Research Seminar

Friday 8 February 2019

• 14:00 - The Hague: Constructing an International Forum
  Naina Gupta (Architectural Association)
  OxonCourts
• 16:00 - ‘The Colonization of Elephants in the Making of Modern Malaya, c.1500-1900’
  Faizah Zakaria (Nanyang Technological University)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The Ford Lectures - After the Black Death: Injustice and revolt
  Professor Mark Bailey (University of East Anglia)
  The James Ford Lectures 2017 - Family and Empire: Kinship and British Colonialism in the East India Company Era, c. 1750-1850
• 17:00 - MEC Friday Seminar - The Iraq War Inquiry: a study in contemporary political, diplomatic, military and reconstruction history
  Sir John Chilcot
  Middle East Centre Friday seminars Hilary Term 2019
• 17:00 - An Evening with Chris Patten
  Lord Chris Patten (Chancellor, University of Oxford)

Monday 11 February 2019

• 13:00 - Book Launch: 'Apartheid Guns and Money' - Exposing a Global Network of Profit
  A light sandwich lunch will be served from 1pm.
  Hennie van Vuuren (Open Secrets and Institute for Security Studies)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Material deprivation and intra-household allocation across Europe
  A sandwich lunch is available on a first come, first served basis.
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Tania Burchardt (London School of Economics)
  Archive: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 15:00 - Social Bonding in Diplomacy: Face-to-Face Interactions and Rituals in the 4th Image
  Nicholas J Wheeler (University of Birmingham)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series
• 17:00 - The political economy of systemic corruption
  Sean Hagan (Exeter College, Oxford)
  Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM)
• 19:00 - OxWiR Seminar: Relationships
  TBA
  Oxford Women in Research (OxWiR) Seminar Series HT 2019
• 19:00 - Talking to North Korea
  Glyn Ford (Track2Asia)

Tuesday 12 February 2019

• 12:30 - Winant Lecture in American Government - Has American democracy outstripped its institutional foundations? Principles without traction in 21st century governance
  Stephen Skowronek (Yale)
  American History Research Seminar
• 14:00 - Connected Histories? Arabia, India and the Architecture of Medieval Ethiopia
  Finbarr Barry Flood (Director, Silsila: Center for Material Histories, New York University)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Guido van Meersbergen (Warwick)
  Oxford Transnational and Global History Seminar

Wednesday 13 February 2019

• 17:00 - The Mongol empire and Islamisation
  Professor Andrew Peacock (St Andrews)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Social protection and return migration: The Albanian-Greek migration corridor
  Zana Vathi (Edge Hill University)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)

Thursday 14 February 2019

• 11:00 - The Lives and Loves of Muriel St. Clare Byrne: Perspectives on Queer Identity
  Mo Moulton
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - How to lose a country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship
  Books will be available to buy at the event for the discounted price of £10 each (cash only please).
  Ece Temelkuran (Journalist and Author), Ceren Lord (School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies), Murat Belge (St Antony's College, Oxford), Laurent Mignon (University of Oxford)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)

Friday 15 February 2019

• 14:00 - Broadcasting Decolonisation: The Radio Boom and the End of Empire
  Dr Peter Brooke (Wolfson, Oxford), Professor Simon Potter (Bristol), Dr Kristin Roth-Ey (UCL), Stephen Hocking (Department for Continuing Education, Oxford), Dr Massoumeh Torfeh (School of Oriental and African Studies)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The Ford Lectures - After the Black Death: A new equilibrium, c.1375-1400
  Professor Mark Bailey (University of East Anglia)
  The James Ford Lectures 2017 - Family and Empire: Kinship and British Colonialism in the East India Company Era, c. 1750-1850
• 17:00 - MEC Friday Seminar - title tbc
  Abbas Kadhim (Atlantic Council)
  Middle East Centre Friday seminars Hilary Term 2019

Monday 18 February 2019

• 13:00 - Panel Discussion: Prospects for Meaningful Accountability for Rights Violations in Sri Lanka
  A light sandwich lunch will be served from 1pm.
  Kiran Grewal (Goldsmiths, University of London), Farzana Haniffa (University of Cambridge and University of Colombo), Gehan Gunatilleke (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 13:00 - How effective are CCT programs in reducing multiple deprivations? Some insights from Philippines’ 4Ps program
  A sandwich lunch is available on a first come, first served basis.
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Suman Seth (University of Leeds)
  Archive: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 19:00 - OxWiR Seminar: Self-Care and (Re-)Integration
  TBA
  Oxford Women in Research (OxWiR) Seminar Series HT 2019

Tuesday 19 February 2019

• 12:30 - Lungs, bodies and green visions: Healthy cities, park-making and the urban metabolic landscape in London and New York
  Karen Jones (University of Kent)
  American History Research Seminar
• 12:30 - Trade unions under President Macron - new coalitions of resistance to French labour reforms
  Barry Colfer (Deakin Visiting Fellow, St Antony's College, Oxford)
  ESC Visiting Academics Lunchtime Seminar Series Hilary Term 2019
• 14:00 - What's the Party like? The Normative state of the Politcial Party in Souh Asia
  Change of venue - Syndicate Room - Old Main Building, St Antony's College
  Udit Bhatia (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 20 February 2019

• 14:00 - Women's Rights Research Seminar - From Kurdistan to Europe: Kurdish Literary, Artistic and Cultural Activism by Kurdish Women Intellectuals
  Dr Özlem Belçim Galip (Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow, The School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford)
• 17:00 - British-Islamic identity: third-generation Bangladeshis from East London
  Dr Aminul Hoque (Goldsmiths)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Gendering remittances: Women’s empowerment in Albania
  Julie Vullnetari (University of Southampton), Emre Eren Korkmaz (St Edmund Hall, Oxford)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
• 17:15 - Bernhard of Weimar as military enterpriser
  Astrid Ackermann (Jena)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 21 February 2019

• 11:00 - The Invention of the “ethical consumer”: Consumer products and political activism in Britain and West Germany in the 1960s – 1990s
  Benjamin Moeckel
  Modern History Research Seminar

Friday 22 February 2019

• 14:00 - The Actorness of International Courts and Tribunals
  Raphael Oidtmann (University of Mannheim)
  OxonCourts
• 16:00 - Physicians, agents and collectors: the importation and study of natural specimens from the Middle East in seventeenth-century Europe
  Federica Gigante (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The Ford Lectures - After the Black Death: The end of serfdom and the Rise of the West
  Professor Mark Bailey (University of East Anglia)
  The James Ford Lectures 2017 - Family and Empire: Kinship and British Colonialism in the East India Company Era, c. 1750-1850
• 17:00 - MEC Friday Seminar - Struggles for Justice during the Arab Uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia
  Heba Morayef (Amnesty International)
  Middle East Centre Friday seminars Hilary Term 2019

Monday 25 February 2019

• 13:00 - Un-Becoming a Victim: Between Historic Reminder and Hallucination, Geographical Document and Childhood Memory, Collective Tragedy and Personal Healing
  A light sandwich lunch will be served from 1pm.
  Saša Rajšić (Independent Artist and Researcher)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 13:00 - In quest of a better life: international labour migration and poverty in rural Bangladesh
  A sandwich lunch is available on a first come, first served basis.
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Ricardo Nogales (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative), Dr Christian Oldiges (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative)
  Archive: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Euro Area architecture: Options for a viable fiscal pillar
  Adrienne Cheasty (St Antony’s College, Oxford)
  Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM)
• 17:00 - Roundtable on ‘Protest and Violence in Post-Coup Zimbabwe’
  Shari Eppel (Director, Solidarity Peace Trust), Dr Miles Tendi (University of Oxford)
  ODID Special Lectures & Seminars

Tuesday 26 February 2019

• 12:30 - Beacons of Freedom: Runaway Slaves and Spaces of Freedom in North America
  Damian Pargas (Leiden University)
  American History Research Seminar
• 12:30 - Securitisation of migration in post-2000 Greece
  Foteini Kalantzi (St Antony's College, Oxford)
  ESC Visiting Academics Lunchtime Seminar Series Hilary Term 2019
• 14:00 - Continuity in mind: Imagination and migration on India and the Gulf
  Change of Venue - Syndicate Room, Old Main Building, St Antony's College
  Thomas Chambers (Oxford Brookes University)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Towards the Anthropocene: State-formation and Environment in the Global Middle Ages
  Amanda Power (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Transnational and Global History Seminar
• 17:15 - GEG Annual Lecture: “Current shifts in global economic governance” with Susana Malcorra
  Susana Malcorra

Wednesday 27 February 2019

• 17:00 - The making of Ottoman kingship at the dawn of empire
  Dr Christopher Markiewicz (University of Birmingham)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Articulating identity options: Eastern and Southern European migrants in Britain
  Laura Morosanu (University of Sussex)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)

Thursday 28 February 2019

• 11:00 - Global Britain and the Security of Europe, 1919-59
  Patricia Clavin
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 16:00 - The violence of humour and ridicule in typewriter and tweet diplomacy
  Akos Kopper (Head of Department of International Relations and European Studies, ELTE University, Budapest)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series
• 17:00 - MEC Seminar - Revolution in Iran 1978-1979: Assessments and Reassessments upon the Fortieth Anniversary
  Touraj Atabaki (International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam), Stephanie Cronin (University of Oxford), Siavush Ranjbar Daemi (University of St Andrews)

Friday 1 March 2019

• 10:00 - OxonCourts 1st Judicial Studies Graduate Colloquium
  Various Speakers
  OxonCourts
• 10:00 - Global and Imperial History graduate student research presentations
  Various Speakers
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - MEC Friday Seminar - Lebanon and the twenty-first century: populism, neoliberalism, and their discontents
  Andrew Arsan (University of Cambridge)
  Middle East Centre Friday seminars Hilary Term 2019
• 17:00 - Leszek Kołakowski Lecture: Central European philosophy and the search for truth in dark times
  Professor Marci Shore (Yale), Professor Timothy Garton Ash (University of Oxford)

Monday 4 March 2019

• 13:00 - Taking into account gender and intra-household dynamics: Oxfam’s experience of assessing resilience capacities at the household and individual levels
  A sandwich lunch is available on a first come, first served basis.
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Ms Alexia Pretari (Oxfam)
  Archive: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The newer EU states: Economic integration and political divergence
  Gillian Edgeworth (Wellington Management)
  Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM)

Tuesday 5 March 2019

• 12:30 - Maritime and Riverine Borders and the Problem of Settler Colonialism
  Rachel Herrmann (Cardiff)
  American History Research Seminar
• 12:30 - Anti-Gender Movements in Europe and Turkey
  Alev Ozkazanc Kozakli (Visiting Fellow, St Antony's College, Oxford)
  ESC Visiting Academics Lunchtime Seminar Series Hilary Term 2019
• 14:00 - Before the Nation-State: Christian Internationalism and the Inter-War Years
  Sneha Krishnan (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - MEC Seminar: Iran and sanctions
  Zep Kalb (UCLA), James Landale (BBC)

Wednesday 6 March 2019

• 14:00 - Graduate students’ presentations and workshop
  Various Speakers
  History of War Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The Qur’an in English: challenges and choices for Surat an-Nisa
  Professor Bruce Lawrence (Duke University), Professor Miriam Cooke (Duke)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Diasporas and peace mediations: Cypriots abroad and reunification attitudes
  Neophytos Loizides (University of Kent)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)

Thursday 7 March 2019

• 11:00 - Engaging with the West, humanizing science: Grassroots geographers’ quest for a natural order in Meiji and Taisho Japan
  Nadine Willems
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 16:00 - Digital Transformation of the Commonwealth
  Nabeel Goheer (Assistant Secretary General, Commonwealth Secretariat)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series
• 17:00 - From ‘The End of Ideology’ to ‘The End of History’: The Strange Revival of a Discredited Idea
  Dr Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins (Yale University)
  Rethinking the Contemporary. The World Since the Cold War

Friday 8 March 2019

• 10:00 - Global and Imperial History graduate student research presentations
  Various Speakers
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - MEC Friday Seminar - Inside Tunisia’s al-Nahda: Between Politics and Preaching
  Rory McCarthy (Magdalen College, Oxford)
  Middle East Centre Friday seminars Hilary Term 2019

Monday 29 April 2019

• 09:00 - MPhil/MSt Politics Scriptorium (Group Writing!)
  TBA
  Politics Scriptorium
• 13:00 - Transitional Justice in Historical Perspective: Book Launch of ‘Justice framed: A Genealogy of Transitional Justice’
  The discussion will begin at 13:15, a light sandwich lunch will be served at 13:00.
  Marcos Zunino (British Institute of International and Comparative Law)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Nine Crises: Brexit in perspective
  Join us for drinks and nibbles in the Common Room after the talk.
  William Keegan (The Observer)
  Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM)

Tuesday 30 April 2019

• 12:30 - Reexamining Locke in nineteenth-century American intellectual life
  Claire Rydell Arcenas (Montana and RAI)
  American History Research Seminar
• 14:00 - Fundamental Rights Lawfare: Religious Freedom and Public Order in Pakistan and Malaysia
  Matthew Nelson (SOAS)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Book Launch: In Their Own Words -Understanding Lashkar-e-Tayyaba
  C. Christine Fair (Georgetown University)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:30 - Religion, War and Terrorism
  Professor Tony Coady (University of Melbourne)
  New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar Series

Wednesday 1 May 2019

• 16:00 - Tokyo 2020 and Japan's Soft Power
  Professor Yasushi Watanabe (Keio University), Professor Corneliu Bjola (University of Oxford)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series

Thursday 2 May 2019

• 16:30 - Islamization and the formation of a vernacular tradition: Muslim funerary monuments in 15th-century northern Sumatra
  R. Michael Feener (Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - “A President for Dark Times: the Age of Reason Meets the Age of Trump” ¦ Tanner Lecture 2019
  Strobe Talbott (Brookings Institution)

Monday 6 May 2019

• 09:00 - MPhil and MSt Politics Scriptorium (Group Writing + Social)
  TBA
  Politics Scriptorium
• 17:00 - Preventing and resolving international financial crises
  Sean Hagan (Exeter College, Oxford)
  Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM)

Tuesday 7 May 2019

• 12:30 - Book Launch: 'The Trial of the Kaiser'
  Professor William A. Schabas (Middlesex University)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 12:30 - The Mississippi Flood of 1927: the first modern disaster?
  Gareth Davies (St Anne's)
  American History Research Seminar
• 14:00 - Commodities, Merchants, and Refungees: Inter-Asian circulations and Afghan mobilty
  Magnus Marsden (University of Sussex)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:30 - Communicating Science in the Age of Fake News
  Various Speakers
  2019- Grand Challenges in Science

Wednesday 8 May 2019

• 17:00 - South East Europe’s diaspora: The dark side
  Elizabeth David-Barrett (University of Sussex), John Howell (JH&Co), Edrin Gjoni (Home Office)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
• 17:15 - 'Theory and Practice of the Laws of War in Seventeenth-Century Europe: The Case of the Desolation of the Palatinate (1688-9)'
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Emilie Dosquet (Strasbourg)
  History of War Seminar Series
• 17:30 - In Conversation with Juan Manuel Santos, Former President of Colombia
  Juan Manuel Santos (Former President of Colombia and Nobel Peace Laureate), Professor Sabina Alikre (Director of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative)
• 17:45 - Basic Income - Battling Eight Modern Giants
  Guy Standing (Basic Income Earth Network)

Friday 10 May 2019

• 11:00 - Keynote Speech -- Reopening the 'Opening of Japan' Conference
  Professor Sho Konishi (University of Oxford - History/OSGA)
  CONFERENCE: 'Reopening the "Opening of Japan"' - 150th Anniversary of the Meiji Restoration
• 11:15 - The Art of Reopening the ‘Opening of Japan’
  Professor Christopher Bush (Northwestern University), Dr Maki Fukuoka (University of Leeds), Professor Toshio Watanabe (The University of the Arts London)
  CONFERENCE: 'Reopening the "Opening of Japan"' - 150th Anniversary of the Meiji Restoration
• 13:00 - Communicating with Data
  Alan Smith OBE (Data Visualisation Editor, The Financial Times)
• 14:00 - Of Satire and Romance: Questioning Narratives of Civilisation and Enlightenment
  Natalia Doan (University of Oxford), Warren Stanislaus (University of Oxford)
  CONFERENCE: 'Reopening the "Opening of Japan"' - 150th Anniversary of the Meiji Restoration
• 15:15 - Humanistic Naturalism and the Garden of One Light: The Competing Modernities of Kunikida Doppo and Nishida Tenkō
  Dr Ariel Acosta (Waseda University), Yu Sakai (University of Oxford)
  CONFERENCE: 'Reopening the "Opening of Japan"' - 150th Anniversary of the Meiji Restoration
• 16:15 - Transnational Political Culture: Literature and Graffiti Across the Tokugawa and Meiji Periods
  Professor Richard John Lynn (University of Toronto), Dr Kiri Paramore (Leiden University)
  CONFERENCE: 'Reopening the "Opening of Japan"' - 150th Anniversary of the Meiji Restoration
• 17:30 - Reopening Graves to Find Civilization: Osteology and Cultural Enlightenment in Meiji Japan -- Keynote Speech for the Reopening 'the Opening of Japan' Conference
  Professor James E. Ketelaar (University of Chicago)
  CONFERENCE: 'Reopening the "Opening of Japan"' - 150th Anniversary of the Meiji Restoration

Saturday 11 May 2019

• 09:30 - New Directions in the Study of Religion in the ‘Opening of Japan‘
  Dr Esra Almas - Assistant Professor in Translation Studies (Şehir University), Nile Green - Professor & Ibn Khaldun Endowed Chair in World History (UCLA), Chinami Oka (University of Oxford)
  CONFERENCE: 'Reopening the "Opening of Japan"' - 150th Anniversary of the Meiji Restoration
• 11:00 - Russian and British encounters with Japanese justice and resulting transnational intellectual discourses on Meiji Japan
  Dr Robert Fletcher (University of Warwick), Dr Pia Jolliffe (Research and Teaching Associate, Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies)
  CONFERENCE: 'Reopening the "Opening of Japan"' - 150th Anniversary of the Meiji Restoration
• 13:15 - Mermaids, Magic Lanterns, and the Standard Diving Dress: Transnational Histories of Nature and Technology in Historical Non-Places
  Lewis Bremner (Oxford), Maro Dotulong (Oxford), Dr Mateja Kovacic (University of Oxford)
  CONFERENCE: 'Reopening the "Opening of Japan"' - 150th Anniversary of the Meiji Restoration
• 14:45 - Copyright Law and Border Control: Transnational Histories of Translators, Publishers, Passports, and Marine Animal Hunters
  Maj Hartmann (KU Leuven), Takahiro Yamamoto (University of Heidelberg)
  CONFERENCE: 'Reopening the "Opening of Japan"' - 150th Anniversary of the Meiji Restoration
• 16:00 - Queer Progress and ‘Anti-Social’ Love: A Gendered ‘Opening of Japan’
  Eiko Honda (University of Oxford), Dr Aiko Tanaka (Kyoto University)
  CONFERENCE: 'Reopening the "Opening of Japan"' - 150th Anniversary of the Meiji Restoration
• 17:00 - Reopening 'The Great Gate of Kiev' in Akira Kurosawa's No Regrets for Our Youth (Waga seishun ni kuinashi, 1946)
  Olga Solovieva (University of Chicago)
  CONFERENCE: 'Reopening the "Opening of Japan"' - 150th Anniversary of the Meiji Restoration

Monday 13 May 2019

• 09:00 - MPhil/MSt Politics Scriptorium (Group Writing + Social)
  TBA
  Politics Scriptorium
• 13:00 - Leila Sadat Lecture
  Leila Sadat (Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 17:15 - Block 21, Auschwitz: A Case Study in the Cultural Politics of Memory
  Professor Robert Gordon (Serena Professor of Italian at Cambridge)
  Italian Studies Events
• 17:30 - Mercury’s Perihelion and the Donald
  Samir Shah
  Visiting Professor of Creative Media Lectures: ‘Ways of Seeing: practice and theory in factual media'

Tuesday 14 May 2019

• 12:30 - The art and politics of Afro-Protestantism
  Josef Sorett (Columbia)
  American History Research Seminar
• 14:00 - Single in the City: Women, Migration and Domestic Work in India
  TBA
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Rationality versus irrationality in the Brexit process
  David Llewellyn (Loughborough University)
  Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM)
• 17:30 - Sustainability in a Selfish World: Environmentalism vs Economics
  Various Speakers
  2019- Grand Challenges in Science
• 17:30 - Children & Armed Conflict: UN Special Representative & Nobelist
  Virginia Gamba (United Nations)
• 17:30 - The Character & Consequences of Today’s Technology Tsunami
  Richard Danzig (Center for a New American Security)
  Governance of AI Seminar Series
• 19:00 - Film Night: 9 to 5 (1980)
  Special collaboration with Magdalen Film Society (@mfs_oxford)
  N/A
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].

Wednesday 15 May 2019

• 09:00 - SYMPOSIUM: Writing Black Women’s Lives: Present and Past
  Various Speakers
  Rothermere American Institute Events
• 14:00 - Trafficking and slavery under ISIS: Trauma and rehabilitation of Yezidi female survivors
  Behnaz Hosseini (University of Vienna)
  Women's Rights Research Seminar
• 17:00 - 'What a "Textual Forensics" Might Tell us about How Arabic Writers Conserved the Past (ca. 900-1200)'
  Sarah Savant
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - North Macedonia: The logic of the solution
  Nikos Kotzias (Former Minister for Foreign Affairs, Greece)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)

Thursday 16 May 2019

• 16:00 - Technology Roulette: The Danger of the Pursuit of Technological Superiority
  Richard Danzig (Center for a New American Security)
  Governance of AI Seminar Series

Friday 17 May 2019

• 14:00 - We Don't Believe You - Why Populist Reject the Establishment
  Sir John Redwood MP (Parliament)

Monday 20 May 2019

• 09:00 - MPhil/MSt Politics Scriptorium (Group Writing + Social)
  TBA
  Politics Scriptorium
• 13:00 - Panel Discussion: Transitional Justice in Colombia - New Challenges
  A light sandwich lunch will be served from 1pm.
  Juanita Leon (La Silla Vacia), Andrei Gomez-Suarez (University of Bristol and UCL), Miguel La Rota (Colombian Prosecution Office), Annelen Micus (Bonavero Institute of Human Rights)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Tuesday 21 May 2019

• 12:30 - Female husbands and the transgender past, 1870-1910
  Jen Manion (Amherst)
  American History Research Seminar
• 14:00 - The Paradox of Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalism
  Mick Moore (Institute of Development Studies)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The 2019 Sir John Elliott Lecture in Atlantic History: 'Health and disease history of the Caribbean, 1491-1850: two syndemics'
  To be followed by a wine reception
  John R McNeill (Georgetown University)
  American History Research Seminar
• 17:30 - Natural Hazards: Preparing Today to Protect Tomorrow
  Various Speakers
  2019- Grand Challenges in Science

Wednesday 22 May 2019

• 17:00 - 'Escaping the Nafs in Socialist Egypt: Abd al-Halim Mahmud’s Search for a Sufi Master'
  Hatsuki Aishima
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Greece in the post-memoranda era: What next?
  Please join us at the drinks reception in the Buttery (Hilda Besse Building) after the lecture
  Nikos Karamouzis (Grant Thornton, Greece)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
• 17:15 - ‘Irregular or Insurgent? Constructing a New Face of Battle for America’s Civil War’
  Joint Session with the Rothermere American Institute
  Susan-Mary Grant (University of Newcastle)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 23 May 2019

• 12:30 - Academia to the Public Square: Media Engagement on Immigration and Asylum Issues
  Ben Doherty (The Guardian), Rob McNeil (The Migration Observatory, University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures
• 17:30 - Health, self-management and empowerment: mHealth technologies from a public health perspective
  Dr Tereza Hendl (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich)
  New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar Series

Friday 24 May 2019

• 11:30 - Workshop: Investigating Gender: Sources and Approaches
  N/A
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 14:00 - Film screening: The Eastern
  TBA
• 17:00 - Situating the Study of Islam in Global Intellectual History: Toshihiko Izutsu's Middle-Earth
  TBA

Saturday 25 May 2019

• 09:30 - Workshop -Neither Near Nor Far: Encounters and Exchanges between Japan and the Middle East
  TBA

Monday 27 May 2019

• 09:00 - MPhil/MSt Politics Scriptorium (Group Writing+Social)
  TBA
  Politics Scriptorium
• 17:00 - What were the 1990s? Utopia and the end of history
  Please note change of venue from TORCH Humanities to St Antony's College
  Dr Danilo Scholz (EUI, Florence)
  Rethinking the Contemporary: The World since the Cold War

Tuesday 28 May 2019

• 17:00 - Has China’s Counter-Terrorism Policy in Xinjiang Evolved into State Terror?
  Jo Smith Finley (Newcastle University)
• 18:00 - Can we ever be 100% renewable? So near, yet so-lar…
  Various Speakers
  2019- Grand Challenges in Science

Wednesday 29 May 2019

• 12:30 - Turkey’s authoritarianism: From Atatürk to Erdogan
  Light lunch provided
  Halil M. Karaveli (Turkey Center, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
• 17:00 - '"A most thrilling drama hastening to a tragic end": The Spectacle of Ottoman Decline in Early Twentieth-Century India'
  Faridah Zaman
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Simon Prince (Canterbury Christ Church University)
  Violence Studies Research Network

Thursday 30 May 2019

• 09:00 - Workshop: Trade Unions, Democracy and Political Power in France, the UK and Europe
  Various Speakers

Friday 31 May 2019

• 09:30 - A Colloquium in US History: Compromise, Moderatism, Extremism, and Fanaticism: Disagreement in American Politics and Society, 1783-1861
  Various Speakers
  Rothermere American Institute Events
• 17:00 - Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Lecture: The 1953 Roots of 1979
  Ervand Abrahamian

Monday 3 June 2019

• 09:00 - MPhil/MSt Politics Scriptorium (Group Writing + Social)
  TBA
  Politics Scriptorium
• 17:30 - The Corporate Takeover of American Democracy and the Climate Crisis
  Mr Tom Steyer (Founder, NextGen America and Need to Impeach)

Tuesday 4 June 2019

• 17:30 - Science, Ethics and Exploitation: the Things We Do in the Name of Science
  Various Speakers
  2019- Grand Challenges in Science

Wednesday 5 June 2019

• 12:00 - Mapping European Financial Networks: A Text-Reuse Approach
  Stefano Pagliari (International Political Economy, City, University London), Jure Jeric (DPIR)
• 12:30 - Britain as a model: Turkish politicians’ perceptions of the UK
  Light lunch provided
  Yaprak Gursoy (Ashton University)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
• 14:00 - Women's Football and Futsal in Iran - their challenges and struggles
  Tomoko Yamagishi (St Antony's College)
  Women's Rights Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Shatter the Map: How Milton Friedman and other Neoliberals Imagined a World after Nations
  Professor Quinn Slobodian (Wellesley College)
  Rethinking the Contemporary: The World since the Cold War
• 17:00 - A Mobile Milieu: Humanitarian Equipment and the Politics of Need | Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture 2019
  Professor Peter Redfield (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures
• 17:15 - ‘Forewarned? British Intelligence Assessments of the Communist Threat to Greece, 1944-45’
  Christina Goulter (KCL)
  History of War Seminar Series
• 17:30 - When Speed Kills: Autonomous Weapon Systems, Deterrence, and Stability
  Prof. Michael Horowitz (University of Pennsylvania)
  Governance of AI Seminar Series
• 19:00 - Look Behind You: Reconstructing the Troubles
  Steafán Hanvey (www.steafanhanvey.com)
  Violence Studies Research Network

Thursday 6 June 2019

• 17:00 - An Army of Tribes: British Army Cohesion, Deviancy and Murder in Northern Ireland
  Dr Edward Burke (University of Nottingham)
  Violence Studies Research Network
• 17:00 - National Security, Free Trade Agreements and Investment – the Case of China
  Vivienne Bath (University of Sydney)
• 17:00 - Gender and social accountability at the IMF
  Camila Villard Duran (University of São Paolo and Researcher, ISJPS Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), Dr Emily Jones (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford)
• 17:00 - Seminar on the City of London after BREXIT
  Dr Jean-Jacques van Helten (Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute in Florence)

Friday 7 June 2019

• 16:00 - 'Encyclopédie Nouvelle' Seminar
  Various Speakers
• 17:00 - The 2019 African Studies Annual Lecture: “Edouard Glissant and the Right to Opacity: Some Trembling Thoughts on the State of Critical Theory in Francophone Africa”
  TBA
• 17:30 - Environmental Resource Conflicts: From Water Wars to Mongolian Mines
  Dr Ariell Ahearn (School of Geography and Environment, University of Oxford), Dr Dustin Garrick (Smith School of Enterprise and Environment, University of Oxford)
  Green Templeton Social Sciences Seminar Series

Monday 10 June 2019

• 09:00 - MPhil/MSt Politics Scriptorium (Group Writing and Social)
  TBA
  Politics Scriptorium
• 12:30 - The origin and the impact of labour market institutions in Greece
  Light lunch provided
  TBA
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
• 17:00 - The war in Yemen: challenges in the world's worst humanitarian crisis
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 12 June 2019

• 17:00 - 'Another Genealogy of Critique: On Islam and Reason'
  Irfan Ahmad
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 13 June 2019

• 13:00 - OxonCourts Mini-Workshop on Legal Mobilization
  Jonas von Hoffmann (University of Oxford), Fernanda Farina (University of Oxford), Virginia Passalacqua (European University Institute)
  OxonCourts
• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Professor Gavin Schaffer (University of Birmingham)
  Violence Studies Research Network

Friday 14 June 2019

• 09:00 - BRICS: Unpacking land-use transformation conference
  Various Speakers
• 17:00 - Lecture and Book Launch- The politics of family law reform in Jordan and Morocco: Two seemingly similar monarchies, two different approaches
  Dr Dörthe Engelcke (Max Planck Institute, Hamburg)

Monday 17 June 2019

• 11:00 - MPhil/MSt Politics Scriptorium (Group Writing + Social)
  TBA
  Politics Scriptorium
• 17:00 - "Bearing a banner for the IRA"?: The "Troubles" and the Catholic Church of the United States of America'
  Dr Maggie Scull (NUI Galway)
  Violence Studies Research Network
• 17:30 - Securing a World of Physically Capable Computers with Bruce Schneier
  Bruce Schneier (Harvard Kennedy School)
  Governance of AI Seminar Series

Tuesday 18 June 2019

• 09:45 - Generational memory and the resurgence of the past in Southern Europe and Latin America
  Please register your attendance.
  Various Speakers
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)

Wednesday 19 June 2019

• 13:00 - Conference: Justice for Transnational Human Rights Violations - At the Crossroads of Litigation, Policy and Scholarship
  TBA
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Which model for Europe after the crisis and the Brexit saga?
  Thomas Wieser (Former EU Economic and Financial Committee)
  Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM)
• 17:15 - ‘The Production of Military Knowledge in Early Modern Europe’
  Klára Andresova (Prague)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 20 June 2019

• 17:00 - George Antonius Memorial Lecture
  Dr Saeb Erekat (Palestine Liberation Organization Negotiation Affairs Department)

Tuesday 8 October 2019

• 17:00 - Special Event: Introduction of the Oxford and empire project and joint welcome drinks with GIH
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Transnational and Global History Seminar

Monday 14 October 2019

• 13:00 - Documenting Crimes in Syria and Iraq: ISIS and the Crimes Against the Yazidis
  A light sandwich lunch will be served from 1PM.
  Sareta Ashraph (Garden Court Chambers; Visiting Fellow of Practice, Programme on International Peace and Security, ELAC, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Tuesday 15 October 2019

• 14:00 - Cultural Practices and Child Health in Pakistan
  Professor Theresa Thompson Chaudhry (Lahore School of Economics)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Island and mainland colonies in the Greater Caribbean during the revolutionary era
  Dr Dexnell Peters, Professor David Lambert (University of Warwick)
  Oxford Transnational and Global History Seminar

Wednesday 16 October 2019

• 17:00 - Research Brief Encounters
  Various Speakers
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].

Thursday 17 October 2019

• 15:00 - Does Digital Management Exist? Challenges for the Next Generation of TV
  Professor Eli Noam (Columbia University)

Friday 18 October 2019

• 13:00 - The first revision of the global MPI: Empirical insights and robustness
  Dr Ricardo Nogales (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 16:00 - Global Struggles and Africa’s Cold War
  Professor David Anderson (University of Warwick)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 16:30 - Researching Hoover’s War on Gays: Uncovering Hidden History
  Keynote address of the HoTCUS postgraduate conference, “The Regulated Body”
  Douglas Charles (Penn State)
  American History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Martyrs and Tricksters: An Ethnography of the Egyptian Revolution
  Dr Walter Armbrust (MEC Albert Hourani Fellow)
  MEC Friday Seminar Series

Monday 21 October 2019

• 13:00 - CANCELLED - Book Launch: Transforming Rwanda – Challenges on the Road to Reconstruction
  This event stands cancelled. Due to a health emergency, the speaker has been advised not to travel.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Jean-Paul Kimonyo (Senior Adviser, Office of the President of Rwanda; Fellow, Rift Valley Institute)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Tuesday 22 October 2019

• 12:00 - The Environmental Imagination and Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Politics
  Matthew Griffin (UCL)
  American History Research Seminar
• 13:30 - Tribal land and alienation and Adivasi movement for autonomy in India and Bangladesh
  Dr Dalel Benbabaali (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Area Studies, St John's Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 23 October 2019

• 17:15 - Decolonization’s New Wars: Revisiting the Violent Collapse of Empire
  Martin Thomas (Exeter)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 24 October 2019

• 17:00 - Greece after the crisis: Stocktaking, legacies and prospects
  George Pagoulatos (Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB))
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)

Friday 25 October 2019

• 13:00 - Multidimensional energy poverty: A quasi-experimental approach applied to education
  Mr Jeff Pagel (University of Barcelona)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 16:00 - “You taught me language and my profit on it is I know how to curse”: Shakespeare’s The Tempest in postcolonial criticism and performance
  Dr Cheryl Birdseye (Oxford Brookes)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 28 October 2019

• 13:00 - Measuring Peace: Local Participation and Perspectives in Peacebuilding
  A light sandwich lunch will be served from 1PM.
  Anupah Makoond (Saïd Business School, University of Oxford)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Tuesday 29 October 2019

• 12:15 - The Many Lives of Calamity Jane: Gender & Celebrity on the American Frontier
  Karen Jones (University of Kent)
  American History Research Seminar
• 13:00 - The temptations of populism
  Andrés Velasco (The LSE School of Public Policy), Nur Laiq (TORCH - Humanities Division)
• 14:00 - Centralisation and nationalism in the making of Indian capitalism
  Professor Pritam Singh (Wolfson College, Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Migration into and out of the UK after Brexit
  Madeleine Sumption (The Migration Observatory, University of Oxford), Zovanga Kone (COMPAS, University of Oxford), Carlos Vargas-Silva (COMPAS, University of Oxford), Rob McNeil (The Migration Observatory, University of Oxford)
• 17:00 - Eradicating pathogens, eradicating empire: quarantine against repatriates in Busan and Japan after WWII
  Dr Jeong-Ran Kim
  Oxford Transnational and Global History Seminar

Wednesday 30 October 2019

• 17:00 - The Map is Not the Territory: Story-making, Place and Performance | Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture 2019
  Professor Dame Marina Warner
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures

Thursday 31 October 2019

• 08:00 - Challenges of Government Conference 2019: The new generations
  Various Speakers

Friday 1 November 2019

• 13:00 - The role of inequality in poverty measurement
  Professor Sabina Alkire (University of Oxford)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 16:00 - The “federal moment” in East Africa: regionalism and the nation-state, 1958-1963
  Dr Chris Vaughan (Liverpool John Moores)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 4 November 2019

• 13:00 - Colombia's Special Jurisdiction for Peace: Are There Reasons for Hope?
  A light sandwich lunch will be served from 1PM.
  Julieta Lemaitre (Colombian Special Jurisdiction for Peace)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Skill Diversity and the Evolution of Formal Employment in Cities
  Eduardo Lora (Harvard University)
• 17:00 - The Energy Transition has begun: A case study of the American West.
  Leo Guzman (Guzman Energy), Christopher Miller (Guzman Energy)
• 17:00 - The Last Bluff: How Greece came face-to-face with financial catastrophe
  Viktoria Dendrinou (Bloomberg), Eleni Varvitsioti (Kathimerini), Tim Vlandas (St Antony's College, Oxford)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)

Tuesday 5 November 2019

• 12:15 - The Identification of Huntington Library HM 1365 and the Study of Transatlantic Service Indentures
  This paper will be pre-circulated
  Sonia Tycko (University of Oxford, Kinder-RAI JRF in Atlantic History)
  American History Research Seminar
• 13:00 - Approaches to Identity
  Sian Pooley
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 14:00 - Nationalism, Development, and Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka
  TBA
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Planning for impact in international development research projects
  Various Speakers
• 17:00 - A History of the Transitions in Energy Service Demand
  Roger Fouquet (LSE)
  Energy Colloquia Series
• 18:00 - Climate change and poverty | A photo-sound exhibition followed by panel discussion
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 6 November 2019

• 16:00 - The climate crisis, inequality and the polluter elite
  Dario Kenner (Anglia Ruskin University)
  SoGE Economy and Society Cluster Events
• 17:15 - Professional, Regimented and Aggressive: British paratroopers and the 1982 Falklands
  Helen Parr (Keele)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 7 November 2019

• 12:00 - Albania’s 'noncompetitive' local elections: A means to what end?
  Light lunch provided
  Gjovalin Macaj (Leiden University), Stefan Szwed (DPIR, University of Oxford)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
• 17:30 - The Turkish state's military operation in Northern Syria: a discussion with members of the Kurdish community in Oxford
  Dr Dilar Dirik (University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures

Friday 8 November 2019

• 16:00 - 'The view from Ikoyi: negotiating late colonialism in Nigeria
  Dr Tim Livsey (Northumbria)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 11 November 2019

• 13:00 - Breaking Legal Ground: ICC Investigations in Palestine
  A light sandwich lunch will be served from 1PM.
  Dr Mishana Hosseinioun (Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford), Rodney Dixon QC (Temple Garden Chambers)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Autumn Colloquium on Intersubjectivity
  With the Centre for Gender History Glasgow
  Various Speakers
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].

Tuesday 12 November 2019

• 12:15 - Mourning Spaces: Remembering and Grieving Victims of Lynching
  Jenny Woodley (Nottingham Trent University)
  American History Research Seminar
• 14:00 - Gandhi @150: Rethinking India’s Non-Violent Revolutionary
  Dr Talat Ahmed (Edinburgh)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Oceanic perspectives: towards a cultural history of South America’s pacific coast
  Dr Paul Merchant (University of Bristol)
  Oxford Transnational and Global History Seminar
• 17:00 - Migration: the movement of humankind from prehistory to the present
  Prof Robin Cohen (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 13 November 2019

• 17:00 - The protean character of protein: from Diet for a Small Planet to the Impossible Burger™
  Prof Julie Guthman (University of California)
  Oxford Martin School Lecture Series: Food futures: how can we safeguard the planet's health, and our own?
• 17:00 - Turkey/Russia arms deal: What can NATO do?
  Ziya Meral (Centre for Historical Anlaysis and Conflict Research, Sandhurst), David Logan (British Institute at Ankara)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)

Friday 15 November 2019

• 13:00 - Relationships between monetary poverty and the global MPI: Joint, separate or correlated distributions?
  Dr Matthew Robson (University of York)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 16:00 - Droughts, Pastoralists and Identities in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Kenya: an Archaeological Perspective
  Professor Paul Lane (Cambridge)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 18 November 2019

• 13:00 - For the Love of Humanity: The World Tribunal on Iraq
  A light sandwich lunch will be served from 1PM.
  Dr Ayca Çubukçu (LSE Human Rights, London School of Economics)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 17:00 - A film discussion evening on Shelter without Shelter
  Professor Tom Scott-Smith (University of Oxford), Dr Mark E Breeze (University of Cambridge)
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures
• 17:00 - What Do We Mean When We Talk About Statues?
  Dr Rahul Rao (SOAS)
• 18:00 - The Campaign against Isis in Iraq and Syria
  Major General Christopher Ghika (UK Ministry of Defense)

Tuesday 19 November 2019

• 13:00 - New histories of women at Oxford University
  Various Speakers
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 14:00 - Towards a Religious Internationalism? The Indian Khilafat Movement in Interwar Europe
  Faridah Zaman
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Harmsworth Lecture in American History: 'The Origins of the American Economy'
  Please note this lecture will be given in the Examination Schools
  Peter Mancall (University of Oxford)
  American History Research Seminar

Wednesday 20 November 2019

• 17:00 - Restitution and Twenty-First Century African Art
  Followed by a drinks reception
  Dr Gus Casely-Hayford (Smithsonian National Museum of African Art)
• 17:00 - European elites’ discourses of the Greek crisis
  Dimitris Papadimitriou (University of Manchester)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
• 17:15 - The Human Costs of the Civil Wars in England and Wales, 1642-1710
  Andrew Hopper (Leicester)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 21 November 2019

• 17:00 - Diet, obesity and health: from science to policy
  Prof Susan Jebb (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Martin School Lecture Series: Food futures: how can we safeguard the planet's health, and our own?

Friday 22 November 2019

• 13:00 - Revisions of the global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI): Indicator options and their empirical assessment
  Dr Usha Kanagaratnam (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 16:00 - Global(izing) Africa: the case of economic history
  Professor Gareth Austin (Cambridge)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 25 November 2019

• 13:00 - CANCELLED - Libya: Finding Routes to Justice Amidst Conflict
  In light of the UCU strike, this event has been postponed.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Elham Saudi (Lawyers for Justice in Libya)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Tuesday 26 November 2019

• 12:15 - Discussion of the Harmsworth Lecture
  Professor Peter Thompson
  American History Research Seminar
• 14:00 - Gandhi's Spell on the Bollywood Hero
  Sanjay Suri (Europe correspondent, CNN News18 media group)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Global History Graduate Students Workshop
  This seminar has been cancelled due to planned UCU industrial action.
  Thomas C. Burnham (Somerville College, Oxford), Huw Jones (Jesus College), Dr Faridah Zaman (Somerville College, Oxford)
  Oxford Transnational and Global History Seminar

Wednesday 27 November 2019

• 17:00 - Unresolved issues in the Western Balkans: Progress or deterioration?
  Dr Jessie Barton Hronešová (Department of International Development), Adis Merdzanovic (SEESOX Associate)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)

Thursday 28 November 2019

• 12:15 - Women and Children amidst the Cameroonian Anglophone Crisis: A Testimony by NGO Leader Esther Omam Njomo
  The talk will take place as originally planned, despite the strike. Even though we were unsuccessful in finding an alternative time or venue, we wish to hereby express our solidarity with the strike. We encourage everyone to join this (student-organised) talk.
  Esther Omam Njomo (Reach Out Cameroon)
• 17:00 - Plant genetics from Mendel to Monsanto
  Dame Ottoline Leyser (University of Cambridge)
  Oxford Martin School Lecture Series: Food futures: how can we safeguard the planet's health, and our own?

Friday 29 November 2019

• 13:00 - The Creative Wealth of Nations
  Mr Patrick Kabanda
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 16:00 - Slavery in the Nigerien Sahel: A Resilient Institution
  This seminar has been cancelled due to the industrial action
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Benedetta Rossi (Birmingham)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 2 December 2019

• 13:00 - CANCELLED - Cultural Restitution in the Transitional Justice Context: A Discussion of African and Asian Cases
  In light of the UCU strike, this event has been postponed.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Phyllis Ferguson (Oxford Transitional Justice Research), Prof Dan Hicks (Curator of World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum; School of Archaeology, University of Oxford)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Tuesday 3 December 2019

• 12:15 - White Mamas and White Devils: White Women and Enslaved Children in the Antebellum US South
  Rosie Knight (University of Sheffield)
  American History Research Seminar
• 13:00 - Approaches to Gender
  This event has been cancelled due to planned USS industrial action
  Kathryn Gleadle, Conrad Leyser
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].

Wednesday 4 December 2019

• 17:15 - Ethiopia and the Cry Against Gas: Representing and Reacting to Chemical Weapons in the Mid-1930s
  Susan Grayzel (Utah State)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 5 December 2019

• 17:00 - Brexit, agriculture & dietary risks in the UK
  Dr Florian Freund (Oxford Martin Visiting Fellow)
  Oxford Martin School Lecture Series: Food futures: how can we safeguard the planet's health, and our own?
• 17:30 - The future of work in Africa
  Zainab Usman (World Bank)

Friday 6 December 2019

• 11:00 - Implications of ‘Critical Religion’ for ‘Religious Education’
  Dr Alison Jasper (Stirling)
  Critical and Decolonial Approaches to “Religion” - Interdisciplinary Research Seminars
• 13:00 - Sensitivity analyses in poverty measurement: The case of the global Multidimensional Poverty Index
  Dr Nicolai Suppa (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 16:00 - 'The Condition of Exile: Ghanaian Political Exile Networks in the Post-Independence Period
  Harriet Aldrich (St Hugh's, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 9 December 2019

• 18:00 - Can transparency and accountability empower communities to improve their health care?
  Various Speakers

Thursday 16 January 2020

• 12:00 - People in Government Lab: Thoughts from a behavioural perspective
  Professor Eldar Shafir (Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs)

Tuesday 21 January 2020

• 14:00 - Capitalism in the Himalaya
  Professor Barbara Harriss-White ((Emeritus Professor of Development Studies, Oxford))
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 22 January 2020

• 17:00 - Researching ‘religion’ in indigenous cultures
  Dr Suzanne Owen (Leeds Trinity)
  Critical and Decolonial Approaches to “Religion” - Interdisciplinary Research Seminars
• 17:00 - Western approaches to South East Europe: Engagement or neglect?
  Mirena Pencheva (St Antony’s College, Oxford), Jarek Wisniewski (Independent analyst)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
• 17:15 - Children Writing War in the Nineteenth
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Emma Butcher (Leicester)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 23 January 2020

• 11:00 - Other `68ers: Students of the Centre-Right in West Germany’s Age of Protest
  Anna v der Goltz (Georgetown)
  Modern History Research Seminar

Friday 24 January 2020

• 13:00 - Too young to die: Deprivation measures combining poverty and premature mortality
  Dr Benoît Decerf (University of Namur)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 16:00 - International treaties as imperial social contracts
  Professor Saliha Belmessous (University of South Wales)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Family, State & Empire
  Professor Margot Finn (President of the RHS & Chair in Modern British History at University College London)
  The James Ford Lectures 2017 - Family and Empire: Kinship and British Colonialism in the East India Company Era, c. 1750-1850

Monday 27 January 2020

• 13:15 - Libya: Finding Routes to Justice Amidst Conflict
  Elham Saudi (Lawyers for Justice in Libya)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa
  Ambassador Prof Dr Claas Knoop
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series

Tuesday 28 January 2020

• 13:00 - Lunchtime talk: 'Feminist thinking in 1890s Egypt: Listening to the elusive Zaynab Fawwaz
  Marilyn Booth (University of Oxford)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 14:00 - Forests, Famines and livlihoods: towards an environmental history of Eastern India
  CANCELLED
  Vinita Damodaran (Sussex)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 29 January 2020

• 15:00 - Punitive rationales for bombing in the Vietnam War: the salience of deontological and consequentialist motives
  Christine Pelican (St Benet's)
  American Politics Graduate Seminar
• 17:00 - Conceptualising ‘religion’ in a globalising world: Muhammad ‘Abduh and his interlocutors
  Dr Ammeke Kateman (Amsterdam)
  Critical and Decolonial Approaches to “Religion” - Interdisciplinary Research Seminars
• 17:00 - Radicalisation in the Western Balkans: Political, social or religious?
  Florian Qehaja (Kosovar Centre for Security Studies), Asya Metodieva (Central European University)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)

Thursday 30 January 2020

• 11:00 - Revolutionary Thought after the Paris Commune
  Julia Nicholls (KCL)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 12:30 - EU referenda in Greece and the UK: Questions of legitimacy
  Light lunch provided
  TBA
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
• 17:00 - British politics after Brexit: reflections on the last three years and the next fifty
  Lord Sumption
  Oxford Martin School Lecture Series: Shaping the future

Friday 31 January 2020

• 16:00 - "A Pack of Knaves": The Royal African Company, large plantations and the rise of the planter class and imperial commitment to the support of slavery in British America 1672-1708
  Professor Trevor Burnard (University of Melbourne)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Demography and Marriage
  Followed by a Drinks Reception in North School directly following the lecture
  Professor Margot Finn (President of the RHS & Chair in Modern British History at University College London)
  The James Ford Lectures 2017 - Family and Empire: Kinship and British Colonialism in the East India Company Era, c. 1750-1850
• 17:00 - RAI Special Event: 'The Great Debate: James Baldwin, William F Buckley and the Civil Rights Revolution'
  Nicolas Buccola (Linfield College), Raphaël Lambert (Kansai University)
  Rothermere American Institute Events
• 17:00 - How do you solve a problem like North Korea?
  Edward Howell (New College, University of Oxford)

Monday 3 February 2020

• 13:15 - Cultural Restitution in the Transitional Justice Context: A Discussion of African and Asian Cases
  Phyllis Ferguson (Oxford Transitional Justice Research), Prof Dan Hicks (Curator of World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum; School of Archaeology, University of Oxford)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Tuesday 4 February 2020

• 14:00 - Arms, Arts and Agriculture: Indo-Mexican Intellectual Connections in the Early Twentieth Century
  Jesus Chairez-Garcia (Manchester)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 5 February 2020

• 17:00 - Jewish tradition in a European straitjacket: some thoughts on the ‘nationalisation’ of Jewish identity
  Prof Yaacov Yadgar (St Anne’s, Oxford)
  Critical and Decolonial Approaches to “Religion” - Interdisciplinary Research Seminars
• 17:00 - The ‘Balkan Route’: Humanitarian and security perspectives on migration
  Amanda Beattie (Aston University), Gemma Bird (Liverpool University), Myriam Fotou (University of Leicester)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)

Thursday 6 February 2020

• 11:00 - Dimensions of the ‘forensic turn’: The New Nexus of Human Rights and International Criminal Law in the 1990s
  Alexa Stiller (Zurich/Oxford)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Road to somewhere? Resilient infrastructure for sustainable development
  Prof Jim Hall (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Martin School Lecture Series: Shaping the future

Friday 7 February 2020

• 13:00 - Building a composite Multidimensional Poverty Index using Delphi dimensions, indicators and weights
  Putu Natih (Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 16:00 - Materials, design and revolution in the making of modern China
  Dr Jennifer Altehenger (Merton College, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Race and Belonging
  Professor Margot Finn (President of the RHS & Chair in Modern British History at University College London)
  The James Ford Lectures 2017 - Family and Empire: Kinship and British Colonialism in the East India Company Era, c. 1750-1850
• 17:00 - Book launch - Palestinian Refugees in International Law | Middle East Centre and Refugee Studies Centre event
  Lex Takkenberg ((Former chief of the Ethics Office at the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees)), Francesca Albanese ((The Institute for the Study of International Migration (ISIM),Georgetown University))
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures

Monday 10 February 2020

• 13:15 - Justice and (Self) Protection in Camp Settings: Findings from South Sudan and CAR
  Dr Rebecca Sutton (Edinburgh Law School, University of Edinburgh)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Book Launch: The Political Life of an Epidemic by Simukai Chigudu
  Simukai Chigudu (University of Oxford)
  ODID Special Lectures & Seminars

Tuesday 11 February 2020

• 13:00 - Lunchtime discussion workshop on teaching women’s history, gender history, and queer history
  Various Speakers
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 14:00 - 'For a better future': Education and unstable future-making in Nepal
  Uma Pradhan
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - RAI Inaugural Lecture: Race and the Problem of the Public in Postwar America
  Professor Margaret Weir (Brown University)
  Rothermere American Institute Events
• 20:30 - Trump, Europe and NATO: Back to the Future
  Dr Seth Johnston (Harvard)
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 12 February 2020

• 15:00 - Does U.S. public opinion follow the leader or follow the crowd? Evidence from experimental surveys involving cyber-attack vignettes
  Joshua Goldstein (St. Hilda's)
  American Politics Graduate Seminar
• 17:00 - Coloniality of ‘religion’ and ‘(secular) politics’: A Japanese case
  Prof Mitsutoshii Horii (Shumei)
  Critical and Decolonial Approaches to “Religion” - Interdisciplinary Research Seminars
• 17:00 - Energy dynamics in the Eastern Mediterranean: Cooperation or conflict?
  Bill Kappis (University of Buckingham), Okan Yardimci (St Antony’s College, Oxford)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
• 17:15 - All the Tsar's Virile Men: Sexuality and Masculinity in the Late Imperial Russian Military
  Siobhán Hearne (Durham)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 13 February 2020

• 11:00 - Contested Closet: Reading Transgender Experience in Twentieth century History
  Jack Doyle (Oxford), Samson Dittrich (Oxford)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Powering the future: switching on the renewables
  Prof Malcolm McCulloch (Head of the University of Oxford’s Electrical Power Group and Co-Director of The Oxford Martin Programme on Integrating Renewable Energy)
  Oxford Martin School Lecture Series: Shaping the future

Friday 14 February 2020

• 13:00 - The quality of employment (QoE) in nine Latin American countries: A multidimensional perspective
  Professor Kirsten Sehnbruch (London School of Economics), Dr Mauricio Apablaza (Universidad del Desarrollo)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 16:00 - Slavery in the Nigerien Sahel: A Resilient Institution
  Dr Benedetta Rossi (Birmingham)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Property and Pensions
  Professor Margot Finn (President of the RHS & Chair in Modern British History at University College London)
  The James Ford Lectures 2017 - Family and Empire: Kinship and British Colonialism in the East India Company Era, c. 1750-1850

Monday 17 February 2020

• 13:15 - Transformative Theory of Justice
  Prof Roman David (Lingnan University; Academic Visitor, Nuffield College, University of Oxford)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Tuesday 18 February 2020

• 14:00 - A millenarian sultan and a teacher to the world: New directions in early modern Indo-Muslim kingship
  Roy Fischel (SOAS, University of London)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 14:00 - LGBT History Month Event: '“Imprisonment will rip apart the little life left in me”: The Persecution and Punishment of Sexual and Social Minorities in Developmentalist Francoism and Post-Dictatorship Spain'
  Sonia Cuesta Maniar (Oxford)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 14:00 - LGBT History Month Event: 'Gender non-conformity in Weimar and Nazi Germany'
  Zoe Nunn (Oxford)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 16:00 - LGBT History Month Event Keynote lecture: ‘Writing Anne Lister’
  Jill Liddington (Leeds)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 20:30 - The Utilities and Challenges of Western Security Force Assistance
  Major Ivor Wiltenburg (Changing Character of War Centre Visiting Fellow)
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 19 February 2020

• 16:30 - Schumpeter’s Not-So-Minimal Theory of Democracy
  Dr Alfred Moore (University of York)
• 17:00 - Managing ‘faith’ in a modern (devolved) State: ‘Time for Reflection’ in the Scottish parliament
  Dr Steven Sutcliffe (Edinburgh)
  Critical and Decolonial Approaches to “Religion” - Interdisciplinary Research Seminars
• 17:00 - How to restart the normalisation of Serbia-Kosovo relations?
  Ian Bancroft (Writer & diplomat; former OSCE), James Ker-Lindsay (LSE)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)

Thursday 20 February 2020

• 11:00 - Vernacular Discourses of Gender Equality in the Postwar British Working Class
  In conjunction with the Women, Gender and Culture Seminar; and the Modern British History Seminar
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite (UCL), Natalie Thomlinson (Reading)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Future options for making plastics more sustainable
  Prof Charlotte Williams (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Martin School Lecture Series: Shaping the future
• 17:00 - Nationalism and its discontents: Excluded and stateless in Modi's India
  Prof Niraja Gopal Jayal (Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University), Nikita Sud (University of Oxford), Meena Kandasamy, Mirza Waheed

Friday 21 February 2020

• 13:00 - Unidimensional underpinnings of multidimensional counting measures
  Professor James Foster (Georges Washington University)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 16:00 - Napoleon III, the invasion of Mexico, and mid-Victorian liberalism
  Dr Alex Middleton (Christchurch College, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Material Cultures and Homes
  Professor Margot Finn (President of the RHS & Chair in Modern British History at University College London)
  The James Ford Lectures 2017 - Family and Empire: Kinship and British Colonialism in the East India Company Era, c. 1750-1850

Monday 24 February 2020

• 12:30 - Indian media and caste: why are lower caste journalists missing from newsrooms?
  Tejas Harad (Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism)

Tuesday 25 February 2020

• 13:00 - Lunchtime talk: Title TBA
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  TBA
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 14:00 - Highways to the end of the World: Roads, Road-Builders and the Archiecture of Power in South Asia
  CANCELLED
  Ed Simpson (SOAS< University of London)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 20:30 - Security in East Asia
  Sir Tim Hitchens (University of Oxford)
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 26 February 2020

• 15:00 - The form of American democracy: Jefferson, Jackson, and political party nomination
  Larry Jacobs (University of Minnesota)
  American Politics Graduate Seminar
• 17:00 - The role of the Balkans in the geopolitics of cybersecurity
  Dr Lucas Kello (University of Oxford), Cvete Koneska (S-RM Intelligence and Risk Consulting, London)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
• 17:15 - Foreign war and civil war: France in 1652 and the costs of early-modern conflict
  David Parrott (University of Oxford)
  History of War Seminar Series
• 17:30 - The future of health in the UK – the next 20 years
  This talk is fully booked
  Prof Chris Whitty (Chief Medical Officer)
  Oxford Martin School Lecture Series: Shaping the future
• 17:30 - Book launch - Exit from Hegemony: The Unravelling of the American Global Order
  Alexander Cooley (Harriman Institute, Columbia University), Daniel Nexon (Georgetown University)

Thursday 27 February 2020

• 11:00 - The Problem with the ‘Home Front’: Rethinking a Conceptual Category in 20th-Century Europe and its Empires
  In conjunction with the Women, Gender and Culture Seminar; and the Modern British History Seminar
  Sue Grayzel (Utah State)
  Modern History Research Seminar

Friday 28 February 2020

• 13:00 - On synthetic income panels
  Dr Hector Moreno (OPHI)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 16:00 - Revolution, Empire and Entangled History in the Southern Caribbean
  Dr Dexnell Peters (Exeter College, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Dynasty and Violence
  Professor Margot Finn (President of the RHS & Chair in Modern British History at University College London)
  The James Ford Lectures 2017 - Family and Empire: Kinship and British Colonialism in the East India Company Era, c. 1750-1850

Monday 2 March 2020

• 13:15 - Intimacies of Violence: Conflict, Rape and Sexual Desire
  Dr Jelke Boesten (Department of International Development, King’s College London)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Tuesday 3 March 2020

• 20:30 - ’Whitehall Warriors’ National Security & Defence Policy & Operations: A Beginners’ Guide
  Commander Damian Exworthy (Changing Character of War Centre Visiting Fellow)
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 4 March 2020

• 17:00 - ‘Religions’ and their boundaries: How to study them?
  Dr Teemu Taira (Helsinki)
  Critical and Decolonial Approaches to “Religion” - Interdisciplinary Research Seminars
• 17:00 - South East Europe in Russia’s geopolitical objectives
  Professor Roy Allison (St Antony's College), Othon Anastasakis (St Antony's College, University of Oxford), Andreja Bogdanovski (University of Buckingham)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)

Thursday 5 March 2020

• 11:00 - Writing the history of slavery in the twenty-first century
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Olivette Otele (Bristol)
  Modern History Research Seminar

Friday 6 March 2020

• 10:00 - Global & Imperial History graduate student research presentations
  These presentations will be from 10:00-17:00
  Various Speakers
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 12:00 - Book launch - The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630-1865
  Mark Peterson (Yale)
  Rothermere American Institute Events
• 13:00 - Identifying inequality benchmark incomes
  Dr Laurence Roope (Health Economics Research Centre, University of Oxford)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 17:00 - AfOx Insaka
  Professor Sarah Rowland-Jones (University of Oxford), Dr Miles Tendi (University of Oxford)
  AfOx insaka - a gathering for sharing ideas and knowledge about Africa-focused research
• 17:00 - Exiled: The Plight of Rohingya Refugees | Screening and Discussion with the Director
  Shahida Tulaganova (Director)
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures
• 17:00 - Book launch - The Trials of Thomas Morton: an Anglican lawyer, his puritan foes, and the battle for a new England
  Copies of the book will be available for purchase at a discounted price of £15 (payable by cash or cheque).
  Professor Peter C. Mancall (University of Southern California)
  Rothermere American Institute Events
• 17:00 - Book Launch - “Deep States and Deep Troubles in the MENA,” Palestinian multilingualism: A perfectly normal adaptation to colonialism, conflict and late capitalism
  Professor Robert Springborg ((Kings College London))

Monday 9 March 2020

• 13:15 - The Nature of Women, Peace and Security: Lessons from Colombia
  Dr Keina Yoshida (Doughty Street Chambers; Centre for Women, Peace and Security, London School of Economics)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Tuesday 10 March 2020

• 13:00 - Lunchtime talk: 'Fake News: Writing Actresses’ Lives in the Eighteenth-Century Newspapers’
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Anna Louise Senkiw (Oxford)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 20:30 - Islam in a Changing World: Reform and the Battle of Narratives
  Ed Husain (Woodrow Wilson Centre for Scholars; Quilliam; Civitas)
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 11 March 2020

• 12:30 - *CANCELLED* OII Bellwether Lecture: Elizabeth Denham
  This event is now cancelled. Apologies for any inconveniences caused
  Elizabeth Denham CBE (The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO))
• 17:00 - The Study of Religion: a national and nationalist project
  Prof Aaron Hughes (Bernstein Professor of Jewish Studies University of Rochester)
  Critical and Decolonial Approaches to “Religion” - Interdisciplinary Research Seminars
• 17:00 - China in South East Europe: Economic or political interests?
  Jens Bastian (ELIAMEP)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
• 17:15 - PGT and PGR workshop
  Various Speakers
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 12 March 2020

• 11:00 - Speculation and Gambling in Germany and Britain around 1900
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Cornelius Torp (Bremen)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Recipes for transforming food production and beyond
  Paul Clarke (Chief Technology Officer, Ocado)
  Oxford Martin School Lecture Series: Shaping the future

Friday 13 March 2020

• 10:00 - Global and Imperial History graduate students research presentations
  Postponed to Trinity Term
  Various Speakers
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 13:00 - *Postponed* Robust non-parametric estimation of inequality measures with contaminated data
  The talk has been postponed, a new date will be communicated soon.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay (Queen Mary University of London)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty

Monday 20 April 2020

• 15:00 - LIVE talk: Enrico Letta at OUIS
  Enrico Letta

Monday 27 April 2020

• 13:15 - ONLINE SEMINAR: The Guidelines on Investigating Violations of International Humanitarian Law
  Please note that due to the unprecedented circumstances, OTJR's seminar series will relocate online (via live conference with the speakers) until further notice. Please register below.
  Claire Simmons (School of Law, University of Essex)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Tuesday 28 April 2020

• 14:00 - The white ant's burden: Insects, empire and entomo-politics in South Asia
  Rohan Deb Roy (University of Reading)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - CANCELLED 'Data work: the hidden talent and secret logic fuelling artificial intelligence' with Prof Gina Neff
  This talk has been cancelled
  Professor Gina Neff (Oxford Internet Institute, Department of Sociology, Senior Research Associate, Christ Church, University of Oxford)
  Oxford Martin School Lecture Series: Shaping the future

Monday 4 May 2020

• 15:15 - ONLINE SEMINAR: Out of Bounds - Can Transitional Justice Address Transnational Human Rights Violations?
  Please note that due to the unprecedented circumstances, OTJR's seminar series will relocate online (via live conference with the speakers) until further notice. Please register below.
  Dr Francesca Lessa (Latin American Centre, University of Oxford)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Monday 11 May 2020

• 17:00 - Life under lockdown in Nigeria
  Online via Zoom
  Various Speakers
  African History & Politics Seminars

Tuesday 12 May 2020

• 14:00 - ‘Digital Media and the Rise and Entrenchment of Populist Politics’
  Professor Ralph Schroeder (Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford), Stephen Whitefield (Pembroke College)
  Seminar 'Brexit, Populism and Mainstream Politics'

Monday 18 May 2020

• 13:15 - ONLINE SEMINAR: On the Thunder Road to Reconciliation - Ukraine’s Transitional Justice Policy
  Please note that due to the unprecedented circumstances, OTJR's seminar series will relocate online (via live conference with the speakers) until further notice. Please register below.
  Dr Kateryna Busol (Chatham House, Robert Bosch Stiftung Academy Fellow)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Tuesday 19 May 2020

• 14:00 - CGIS Workshop on new research on gender, identity, and subjectivity - Part 1
  Please email cgis@history.ox.ac.uk for the link to the seminar
  Various Speakers
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].

Wednesday 20 May 2020

• 18:00 - 'Lie Machines' Book Launch
  Professor Philip Howard (University of Oxford)

Monday 1 June 2020

• 15:30 - Overcoming Boko Haram: A Book and a Conversation
  Various Speakers
  ODID Special Lectures & Seminars

Tuesday 2 June 2020

• 14:00 - CGIS Workshop on new research on gender, identity, and subjectivity - Part 2
  Please email cgis@history.ox.ac.uk for the link to the seminar
  Various Speakers
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].

Wednesday 3 June 2020

• 18:00 - Mass Atrocities and the UN Security Council
  Various Speakers

Monday 8 June 2020

• 17:00 - Life and Politics in Zimbabwe
  Arnold Chamunogwa (University of Oxford), Rudo Mudiwa (Princeton University), Ushehwedu Kufakurinani (University of Zimbabwe), Novuyo Rosa Tshuma (Emerson College)
  African History & Politics Seminars

Wednesday 10 June 2020

• 16:00 - Geopolitical challenges in the Balkans in the shadow of the pandemic
  We are delighted to be able to present this event as a Zoom webinar.
  Dimitar Bechev (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Arolda Elbasani (Centre for European and Mediterranean Studies, New York University), Anastas Vangeli (Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)

Monday 15 June 2020

• 15:00 - Politics in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique
  Paolo Israel (University of the Western Cape), Liazzat Bonate (University of the West Indies), Fredson Guilengue (Wits University & Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung), Brooke Parkin (University of Oxford)
  African History & Politics Seminars

Tuesday 16 June 2020

• 14:00 - Workshop on Primary Sources for histories of gender, identity, and subjectivity
  Please email cgis@history.ox.ac.uk for the link to the seminar
  Various Speakers
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 14:00 - Learning in Governance in times of COVID-19
  Jomo Kwame Sundaram (United Nations), Mukta Naik (CPR India), Isabella Blumm (University of Oxford)
  Covid-19 Flash Talks
• 15:30 - 'Healing Our Divided Society': The Kerner Commission at 50
  Alan Curtis (President, Milton S. Eisenhower Foundation), Gary Younge (Professor of Sociology, University of Manchester)
  Rothermere American Institute Events

Thursday 9 July 2020

• 16:00 - Political economy effects of COVID-19 on Central and South East Europe
  ZOOM webinar
  Christos Gortsos (Law School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), Piroska Nagy-Mohacsi (LSE), Kaloyan Simeonov (Sofia University St Kliment Ohridski), Kori Udovički (Centre for Advanced Economic Studies, Belgrade), Charles Enoch (St Antony's College, Oxford)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)

Thursday 3 September 2020

• 16:00 - From Conflict Actor to Architect of Peace? The Colombian National Police
  Please register in advance for this event. Please arrive to the Zoom room 5 minutes before the event is due to start.
  Laura Gutiérrez (University of Cambridge), Markus Hochmüller (University of Oxford)

Thursday 10 September 2020

• 10:00 - Stress Test
  This lecture is via Zoom only
  Hannah Storm (Ethical Journalism Network)
  RISJ Summer School 2020

Friday 11 September 2020

• 10:00 - Numbers Game
  This lecture is via Zoom only
  Tim Harford
  RISJ Summer School 2020

Wednesday 30 September 2020

• 16:00 - How not to let a global pandemic derail a just, green transition. An online panel discussion among investors, activists, scientists and entrepreneurs
  Charmian Love (Co-Founder and Chair of B Lab UK; Social Entrepreneur in Residence at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship), Kaya Axelsson (Net Zero Policy Engagement Fellow, University of Oxford; former Vice-President of the Oxford Student Union), Leandro Baumgarten (Lead Scientist (Brazil), The Nature Conservancy), Catherine Bryan (Trustee and former CEO, Synchronicity Earth), Arunma Oteh (former Treasurer of the World Bank; Executive-in-Residence at Saïd Business School), Cameron Hepburn (Director of the Smith School for Enterprise and the Environment), EJ Milner-Gulland (Tasso Leventis Professor of Biodiversity), Laurence Wainwright (MSc Course Director at the Smith School)

Tuesday 13 October 2020

• 14:00 - Global histories of hierarchy? Reflections from India on caste, race and the Black Lives Matter movement
  Rosalind O'Hanlon (Oxford), Dr Nayanika Mathur (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 14:15 - Emptied Lands: A Legal Geography of Bedouin Rights in the Negev
  Professor Alexandre (Sandy) Kedar (Haifa University)
  Israel Studies Seminar Michaelmas Term 2020
• 17:00 - Welcome and Open Round Table Discussion: The impact of the last six months on the practice of global history
  N/A
  Oxford Transnational and Global History Seminar
• 19:00 - Spacepower and its Impact on Global Strategy
  Dr Michael Martindale (US Space Force Association)
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 14 October 2020

• 16:00 - The East Med: A new hotspot for Europe?
  Constantinos Filis (Institute of International Relations, Athens), Fiona Mullen (Sapienta Economics, Nicosia), Sinan Ulgen (Centre for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies, Istanbul)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
• 17:00 - AI: simulation and dissimulation
  Dr Yaqub Chaudhary (Cambridge Muslim College)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 15 October 2020

• 17:00 - Special Seminar: Saudi Arabia and the rise and fall of Political Islam
  Special Seminars are held on Thursdays at 17:00
  Professor Bernard Haykel (Princeton)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Friday 16 October 2020

• 13:00 - A journey of acute poverty: the global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI)
  Professor Sabina Alikre (Director of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative), Dr Usha Kanagaratnam (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 16:00 - The Human Rights of Political Detainees — Nelson Mandela, Robben Island and the International Committee of the Red Cross
  Professor Andrew Thompson (Nuffield, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The Dictatorship Syndrome (REGISTRATION ESSENTIAL)
  Alaa Al Aswany

Monday 19 October 2020

• 17:00 - Book Launch - The UK and Multi-Level Financial Regulation: From Post-Crisis Reform to Brexit
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 20 October 2020

• 12:30 - The Political Life of an Epidemic: Cholera, Crisis and Citizenship in Zimbabwe
  Online only
  Simukai Chigudu (University of Oxford)
  Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
• 13:00 - Roundtable: What is US history for?
  If you are not on the seminar list and would like to join a session please contact enquiries@rai.ox.ac.uk for a copy of the paper and the zoom link
  Nicholas Guyatt (Cambridge), Clive Webb (Sussex), Emily West (Reading)
  American History Research Seminar
• 14:00 - Pandemic as event: thinking modern Indian society through a crisis
  Dilip Menon (Witswatersrand)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 14:15 - Language of Revival or Conquest? Hebrew in the Streets of early 20th century Jerusalem
  TBA
  Reconsidering Early Jewish Nationalist Ideologies Michaelmas term 2020
• 17:00 - Oxford Minds - Oxford Social Science Lecture: Race
  Eusebius McKaiser (Broadcaster and author)
  Oxford Minds from the Social Sciences Division
• 17:00 - Western Europe’s Democratic Revolution
  Professor Martin Conway (Balliol College)
• 19:00 - Far Right Terrorism in 2020: Threats, Drivers, and Responses
  Javed Ali (Senior Director for Counterterrorism at the National Security Council)
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 21 October 2020

• 17:00 - Conversation: The Ethics of Writing Modern War
  **FULLY BOOKED**
  Kim Wagner (Queen Mary), Richard Reid (Oxford), Priya Atwal (independent historian and author)
  History of War Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Islamist transformations after the Arab Uprisings: Tunisia’s Ennahda Movement
  Dr Rory McCarthy (Durham)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 22 October 2020

• 13:00 - Biographies Roundtable
  Ruth Harris (University of Oxford ), Julia Mannherz (Oxford), Professor Barbara Savage (University of Pennsylvania)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 17:00 - Teaching Histories of Race in America to UK Undergraduates: A Review Panel Discussion
  Various Speakers
  Rothermere American Institute Events
• 17:00 - CGIS Event: Brief Encounters
  Details will follow
  Various Speakers
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].

Friday 23 October 2020

• 13:00 - Measuring human recognition for women in Malawi using the Alkire-Foster method of multidimensional poverty counting
  Dr Ebelechukwu Maduekwe (Technical University of Munich)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 16:00 - Escaping the Global Event: India, Islam and the Great War
  Professor Faisal Devji (St Antony's, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Authoritarian or Revolutionary? Reflections on the Nature of the State in the Islamic Republic of Iran (REGISTRATION ESSENTIAL)
  Maryam Alemzadeh ((Princeton)), Siavush Randjbar-Daemi ((St Andrews))
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Tuesday 27 October 2020

• 13:00 - "Hoodoos and Voodoo"’: Theories of Black Superstition and Madness
  If you are not on the seminar list and would like to join a session please contact enquiries@rai.ox.ac.uk for a copy of the paper and the zoom link
  Judith Weisenfeld (Princeton)
  American History Research Seminar
• 14:00 - “Chai – why?” The making of the Indian “national drink”
  Philip Lutgendorf (Iowa)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 14:15 - Palestinian Arab Citizens in Israel, Equality Struggle
  Dr Hadeel Abu-Hussein (University of Oxford)
  Israel Studies Seminar Michaelmas Term 2020
• 16:30 - Sir Llewellyn Woodward: Resistance to the Tyranny of Majorities
  Richard Davenport-Hines (All Souls), Simon Green (Chair)
  Conservatism and All Souls Lecture Series
• 17:00 - Oxford Minds - Oxford Social Sciences Panel: Race
  Simukai Chigudu (University of Oxford), David Kirk (Nuffield College), Prof Patricia Daley (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Minds from the Social Sciences Division
• 17:00 - Suspect women: sex-work, gossip and reputation in 14th century Prague
  Dr Eleanor Janega (London School of Economics)
  Oxford Transnational and Global History Seminar
• 17:00 - The ESC Annual Lecture (online this year): Legitimacy Lost, but then Regained? EU Governance during the Eurozone Crisis, the Migration Crisis, and the Covid-19 Pandemic
  Various Speakers
• 19:00 - Great Power Competition and Conflict: The Effect of Technological Change
  Lieutenant General Michael Nagata (US Army)
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 28 October 2020

• 12:00 - Oxford Minds - Discussion group stream 1: Race
  Dr Susan James Relly (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Minds from the Social Sciences Division
• 12:00 - Discussion group stream 2: Race
  Prof Alexander Betts (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Minds from the Social Sciences Division
• 14:00 - Challenging the Limited View - The Case of the Women in Mosques Movement (REGISTRATION ESSENTIAL)
  Dr Yildirim
  MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars
• 16:00 - Exploring Turkey’s disinformation ecosystem
  Zoom webinar
  Akın Ünver (Oxford Internet Institute; Department of International Relations, Kadir Has University), Afşin Yurdakul (Haberturk News Network)
• 17:00 - Archives and archival sensibilities in medieval Arabic Historiography
  Dr Fozia Bora (Leeds)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Censorship’s Implications for Artificial Intelligence
  Jeffrey Ding (University of Oxford), Margaret Roberts (UC San Diego)
  Governance of AI Seminar Series

Thursday 29 October 2020

• 13:00 - Reading Group: Incorporating Gender and Sexuality in Undergraduate Essays
  N/A
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 17:00 - Lorna Casselton Memorial Lecture 2020
  Dr Bryan Wells (NATO Chief Scientist)
• 17:00 - Applying to the Masters Programmes in Women’s Studies and Women’s, Queer and Gender History
  Jane Garnett (Oxford), Dan Healey (Oxford), Lyndal Roper (Oxford), Brenda Stevenson (Oxford)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].

Friday 30 October 2020

• 13:00 - Catastrophic payments and multidimensional poverty: A longitudinal analysis
  Dr Mónica Pinilla-Roncancio (Universidad de Los Andes and OPHI), Dr Paul Rodriguez (Universidad del Rosario)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 15:00 - Alison Hills (Philosophy) engages with Miranda Fricker (CUNY)
  Various Speakers
  Philosophy, Law, and Politics Colloquium
• 16:00 - Chinese Partition: Islamophobic Inheritances in the Legacies of the Great Northwestern Rebellion, 1860-1874
  Dr Hannah Theaker (St Anne's, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Illiberal Liberals and the Future of Dictatorship in Egypt (REGISTRATION ESSENTIAL)
  Dalia Fahmy ((Long Island University)), Daanish Faruqi ((Duke))
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 2 November 2020

• 17:00 - ECB debt certificates: The available euro-safe asset
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 3 November 2020

• 13:00 - A Problem of Labor: Colonial Work and U.S. Military Governance in the Moro Province
  Zoom links and papers are circulated on the seminar mailing list. Please visit https://www.rai.ox.ac.uk/events/subscribe for instructions on how to join
  Oliver Charbonneau (Glasgow)
  American History Research Seminar
• 14:00 - Domestic audience costs and foreign policy making in India: recent shifts in the BJP's strategy
  Happymon Jacob (JNU)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 14:15 - Yosef Klausner in Translation: Zionism and Christianity
  TBA
  Reconsidering Early Jewish Nationalist Ideologies Michaelmas term 2020
• 15:30 - 2020 Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics (1/3): The case for a funded pension with a defined benefit (DB)
  Professor Michael Otsuka (London School of Economics)
  Annual Uehiro Lectures
• 17:00 - Oxford Minds - Oxford Social Sciences Lecture: Sustainability
  Professor Dame Polly Courtice (Sustainability Leadership Programme, University of Cambridge)
  Oxford Minds from the Social Sciences Division
• 17:00 - The EU without Britain: Never Closer Union
  Professor Vernon Bogdanor (King's College, London)
• 19:00 - European Defence in a Time of Global Change
  Dr Daniel Fiott (EUISS)
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 4 November 2020

• 17:00 - Conversation: Artillery, Warfare and the Early Modern State
  All those interested in attending should pre-register by emailing briony.truscott@history.ox.ac.uk
  Michael Depreter (Oxford), Guy Rowlands (St Andrews)
  History of War Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Money, markets and monarchies: The Gulf Cooperation Council and political economy of the Middle East
  Dr Adam Hanieh (SOAS)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 18:00 - Agora Oxford Climate Roundtables: How can the UK turn 2020 from a climate crisis to a green milestone?
  Professor Nick Eyre (Environmental Change Institute), Geraint Davies (MP Labour), Sarah Handley (Siemens Energy), Alex Scott (E3G), Dr Julia Spragg (Greenpeace)

Thursday 5 November 2020

• 13:00 - Dying on the stage: Staging Actresses’ Deaths in the Press
  Anna Senkiw (Oxford)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 17:00 - Race, Research, and the University: Historians’ Approaches - in collaboration with Race Equality Action Group (REAG)
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Transnational and Global History Seminar

Friday 6 November 2020

• 13:00 - Construction of an internationally comparable Child Multidimensional Poverty Index
  Mr Richard Freund (Young Lives)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 16:00 - Eric Williams Revisited: The State, Protectionism, Slavery, and Industrialisation, 1700-1800
  Dr William Ashworth (Liverpool)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The New Populist nationalism in Saudi Arabia (REGISTRATION ESSENTIAL)
  Madawi Al-Rasheed ((KCL and LSE)), Ben Hubbard ((The New York Times))
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 9 November 2020

• 17:00 - Capitalism on Edge: on Radical Change without Crisis, Revolution, or Utopia
  Various Speakers
• 18:00 - What just happened: an intimate look at the 2020 US election
  Frank Luntz

Tuesday 10 November 2020

• 13:00 - Roundtable: discussion of Stephen Tuffnell's "Made in Britain"
  Zoom links and papers are circulated on the seminar mailing list. Please visit https://www.rai.ox.ac.uk/events/subscribe for instructions on how to join
  Patricia Clavin (Oxford), Nathan Cardon (Birmingham), Adam Smith (and Stephen Tuffnell)
  American History Research Seminar
• 14:00 - Rajput loyalties in the Mughal age
  Cynthia Talbot (Texas at Austin)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 14:15 - Governing the Sacred: Political Toleration in Five Contested Sacred Sites
  Dr Yuval Jobani (Tel Aviv University), Dr Nahshon Perez (Bar Ilan University)
  Israel Studies Seminar Michaelmas Term 2020
• 15:30 - 2020 Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics (2/3): The case for collective defined contribution (CDC)
  Professor Michael Otsuka (London School of Economics)
  Annual Uehiro Lectures
• 17:00 - Oxford Minds - Oxford Social Sciences Panel: Sustainability
  Professor Cameron Hepburn, Professor Colin Mayer (Oxford), Dr Radhika Khosla (Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development)
  Oxford Minds from the Social Sciences Division
• 17:00 - The Age of Football: The Global Game in the 21st Century
  David Goldblatt
  Oxford Transnational and Global History Seminar
• 17:00 - New Generational Perspectives on German Reunification Thirty Years Later
  Marcus Colla (Christ Church), Lauren Crawford (Yale), Kate Stanton (Oxford), Paul Betts (St Antony's College, University of Oxford), Timothy Garton Ash (St Antony's College)
• 19:00 - How Public Opinion Reflects Policy Across Europe
  Dr Susi Dennison (Director of European Power Program)
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 11 November 2020

• 12:00 - Discussion group stream 1: Sustainability
  Dr Susan James Relly (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Minds from the Social Sciences Division
• 12:00 - Discussion group stream 2: Sustainability
  Prof Alexander Betts (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Minds from the Social Sciences Division
• 16:00 - Black Sea gas: Economic and geopolitical implications
  Zoom webinar
  Dimitar Bechev (DPIR, Oxford; Russia Institute, King’s College London), Jonathan Lamb (Wood & Company, London), Anna Mikulska (Baker Institute, Houston; Kleinman Center, UPenn)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
• 17:00 - Islam, liberalism and national identity: Lessons from British Islamic institutions
  Dr Stephen H. Jones (Birmingham)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:30 - Doing research, taking action: from humanitarian aid to Oxford, and vice versa
  TBA
  Oxford Study Skills Centre Michaelmas Talk Series '20

Thursday 12 November 2020

• 13:00 - Workshop: Incorporating Gender and Sexuality in Undergraduate Essays
  N/A
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 18:30 - Leading beyond the crisis
  David Brooks (New York Times), Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw (Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery), Elizabeth Kiss (The Rhodes Trust)

Friday 13 November 2020

• 13:00 - Poor households or poor individuals? The issue of the unit of identification when designing an MPI
  Dr María Emma Santos (Universidad Nacional del Sur, CONICET and OPHI)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 16:00 - Toussaint Louverture, the Black Spartacus of Saint-Domingue
  Dr Sudhir Hazareesingh (Balliol, Oxforfd)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:30 - The Trajectory of the Tunisian Revolution: between Continuities and Disjunctures (REGISTRATION ESSENTIAL)
  Professor Sami Zemni ((Ghent))
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 16 November 2020

• 13:00 - PLTO, Teaching and Inclusion: Graduate Workshop
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Various Speakers
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].

Tuesday 17 November 2020

• 13:00 - White mamas and White devils: White women and enslaved children in the antebellum US South
  Zoom links and papers are circulated on the seminar mailing list. Please visit https://www.rai.ox.ac.uk/events/subscribe for instructions on how to join
  Rosie Knight (Sheffield)
  American History Research Seminar
• 14:00 - Domestic devotion: Jain wooden house shrines from Gujarat in American museum collections
  John E Cort (Denison)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 14:15 - The Return to Al-Andalus: Disputes Over Sephardic Culture and Identity Between Arabic and Hebrew
  Yuval Evri (KCL)
  Reconsidering Early Jewish Nationalist Ideologies Michaelmas term 2020
• 15:30 - 2020 Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics (3/3): The case for an unfunded pay as you go (PAYG) pension
  Professor Michael Otsuka (London School of Economics)
  Annual Uehiro Lectures
• 17:00 - Oxford Minds - Oxford Social Sciences Lecture: Justice
  Baroness Helena Kennedy QC (Labour Member of the House of Lords and former Principal Mansfield College)
  Oxford Minds from the Social Sciences Division
• 17:00 - Graduate Student Presentations
  TBC
  Oxford Transnational and Global History Seminar
• 17:00 - Break-Down or Revitalization? Transatlantic Relations after the US Elections
  Various Speakers
• 19:00 - Journalism and Pandemics in an Era of Media Distrust
  Helene Cooper (New York Times Pentagon Correspondent)
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 18 November 2020

• 14:00 - Feminists in the eyes of God: theories and practices of queer Muslim women in Britain
  Dr Benjamin Dubrulle (Maison Française d'Oxford)
  MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars
• 17:00 - Conversation: Reflections on the WWI Centenary
  All those interested in attending should pre-register by emailing briony.truscott@history.ox.ac.uk
  Various Speakers
  History of War Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Counting Shaykhs in hadith collections
  Professor Christopher Melchert
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Democracy after Right-Wing Populism | Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture
  Jan-Werner Mueller (Princeton University)
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures

Thursday 19 November 2020

• 13:00 - Gender and Sexuality Roundtable
  TBA
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 17:00 - Special Seminar: Using field experiments to learn about religious behavior
  Special Seminars are held on Thursdays at 17:00
  Professor Adam Osman (Illinois (Urbana-Champaign))
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Friday 20 November 2020

• 13:00 - Measuring rural poverty with a multidimensional approach: conceptual framework and empirical results
  Dr Frank Vollmer (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative), Dr Piero Conforti (FAO), Dr. José A. Rosero Moncayo (Director of the Statistics Division in the Economic and Social Development Department, FAO)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 16:00 - Revenge of the Commons: property, debt and collateral in the history of African financial capitalism
  Professor Keith Breckenridge (Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Apocalymbo: Trickster Politics in the Age of the Pandemic (and Other Crises) (REGISTRATION ESSENTIAL)
  Dr Walter Armbrust (MEC Albert Hourani Fellow)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 23 November 2020

• 17:00 - Regional disparities in Europe: the economic impact of Covid-19
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 24 November 2020

• 10:00 - Women in Data Science (WiDS) Oxford Inaugural Meeting – Get inspired and get involved!
  Professor Naomi Allen (University of Oxford), Jenna Reps (Janssen Research and Development), Dr Louise Slater (University of Oxford)
• 13:00 - Roundtable: Capitalism and Slavery: America, the Caribbean, and the New History of Capitalism
  Zoom links and papers are circulated on the seminar mailing list. Please visit https://www.rai.ox.ac.uk/events/subscribe for instructions on how to join
  Michael Joseph, Dexnell Peters, Katherine Paugh
  American History Research Seminar
• 14:00 - Jeko Khere So Khaye (He who tills has the right to eat): 'development' and the politics of agrarian reform in late 1940s and early 1950s in Sindh
  Sarah Ansari (RHUL)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 14:15 - Guns and Moses: Jewish anti-British Resistance during the Mandate for Palestine
  Dr Peter Bergamin (Mansfield College)
  Israel Studies Seminar Michaelmas Term 2020
• 16:30 - Sir Keith Feiling: Conservator of Old England
  Richard Davenport-Hines (All Souls), Lord Waldegrave (Chair)
  Conservatism and All Souls Lecture Series
• 17:00 - Oxford Minds - Oxford Social Sciences Panel: Justice
  Professor Jonathan Wolff (Blavatnik School of Government), Professor Zofia Stemplowska (DPIR), Prof. Mary Bosworth (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Minds from the Social Sciences Division
• 17:00 - Graduate Student Presentations
  TBC
  Oxford Transnational and Global History Seminar
• 17:00 - Will Post-Covid Europe Get Serious about Combating Climate Change?
  Professor Timothy Garton Ash (University of Oxford), Professor Dieter Helm (University of Oxford), Wolfgang Münchau (Eurointelligence), Riccardo Mastini (Autonomous University of Barcelona)

Wednesday 25 November 2020

• 12:00 - Discussion group stream 1: Justice
  Dr Susan James Relly (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Minds from the Social Sciences Division
• 12:00 - Discussion group stream 2: Justice
  Prof Alexander Betts (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Minds from the Social Sciences Division
• 16:00 - Thirty years on: The end of the road for ex-communist elites?
  Zoom webinar
  Mihail Chiru (Oxford School of Global and Area Studies), Miloš Damnjanović (BIRN Consultancy), Eli Gateva (Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford)
• 17:00 - Nana Asma’u (d. 1864): The erudite poet and mystic of the Sokoto Caliphate
  Dr Minlib Dallh
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 26 November 2020

• 13:00 - Workshop: Modern History of Human Trafficking
  Anna Dobrowalska (Oxford)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].

Friday 27 November 2020

• 13:00 - Endogenous weights and multidimensional poverty: A cautionary tale
  Dr Gaston Yalonetzky (University of Leeds)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 16:00 - Ordering the East- publishers’ series and the invention of the oriental classic, 1878-1950
  Dr Mishka Sinha (St John's, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Why Syria Still Matters and Why Assad is Still There
  Dr Lina Khatib ((Chatham)), Jeremy Bowen ((BBC News))
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Tuesday 1 December 2020

• 14:15 - Age and gender in German-language cultural Zionism
  Rose Stair (Wolfson College, Oxford)
  Reconsidering Early Jewish Nationalist Ideologies Michaelmas term 2020
• 17:00 - Oxford Minds - Oxford Social Sciences Lecture: Protection
  Dr Hugo Slim (Former Head of Policy, International Committee of the Red Cross, and BSG)
  Oxford Minds from the Social Sciences Division
• 17:00 - Reflections on Brexit: How should we ‘read’ Brexit four years later? What does Brexit do to the UK and to the EU? What could a new partnership look like?
  Various Speakers
• 19:00 - The Effects of Political Polarization on Democratic Erosion
  Dr Robert Blair (Director of Democratic Erosion Consortium)
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 2 December 2020

• 17:00 - Conversation: The Religious Politics of Military Recruitment in Early Modern Europe
  All those interested in attending should pre-register by emailing briony.truscott@history.ox.ac.uk
  Various Speakers
  History of War Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Alchemical interpretations of the Qur’an in the Shudhūr al-dhahab (Shards of Gold) and its commentaries
  Dr Richard Todd (Birmingham)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Special Seminar: Book talk: Islam, authoritarianism, and underdevelopment
  Special Seminars are held on Thursdays at 17:00
  Professor Ahmet Kuru (San Diego State)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 3 December 2020

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Lyndsey Jenkins (Queen Mary University of London)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].

Friday 4 December 2020

• 12:00 - Family-Run Universities in Japan
  Dr Jeremy Breaden (Monash University), Professor Roger Goodman (University of Oxford)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
• 13:00 - A bird’s eye view of well-being: Exploring a multidimensional measure for the UK
  Professor Sabina Alikre (Director of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative), Miss Fanni Kovesdi (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 16:00 - "Kin Beyond Sea": W E Gladstone on Liberalism, Empire, and America, 1846-1898
  Dr Graeme Thompson (Harvard)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The logic of chaos: The pattern of dictatorships (REGISTRATION ESSENTIAL)
  Ece Temelkuran
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Tuesday 8 December 2020

• 17:00 - Oxford Minds - Oxford Social Sciences Panel: Protection
  Professor Kate O'Regan (University of Oxford), Professor Danny Dorling (University of Oxford), Professor Stathis Kalyvas (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Minds from the Social Sciences Division

Wednesday 9 December 2020

• 12:00 - Discussion group stream 1: Protection
  Dr Susan James Relly (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Minds from the Social Sciences Division
• 12:00 - Discussion group stream 2: Protection
  Prof Alexander Betts (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Minds from the Social Sciences Division
• 17:00 - “War Criminals I have known” – On making humanitarian action in today’s world multilateral, legitimate and safe
  Various Speakers

Monday 18 January 2021

• 15:00 - Sensitivity analyses in poverty measurement: The case of the global Multidimensional Poverty Index
  Dr Nicolai Suppa (OPHI, CED)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 16:00 - Nation and Its Discontents: The Poetics and Politics of Siraiki Nationalism in Pakistan
  Ali Usman Qasmi (LUMS)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Tuesday 19 January 2021

• 14:00 - Kalki and the Mahdi: The Twenty-Four Avatars of the Dasam Granth
  Professor Robin Rinehart (Lafayette College)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Reckoning with slavery: gender, kinship and capitalism in the Black Atlantic
  Professor Jennifer Morgan (NYU)
  American History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Ruin and Renewal: Civilising Europe after the Second World War
  Paul Betts (St Antony's College, University of Oxford), Timothy Garton Ash (St Antony's College), Margaret MacMillan (University of Toronto), Steve Smith (All Souls, Oxford), Faisal Devji (St Antony's College)
• 17:00 - Open Round Table Discussion Topic: Global History in the Making: Coups, Covid and Conspiracies
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Transnational and Global History Seminar
• 19:00 - The Case for a National Cyber Security Director
  Former Congressman Mike Rogers
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 20 January 2021

• 17:00 - The Work of the Future: Building Better Jobs in an Age of Intelligent Machines
  David Autor (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Ioana Marinescu (University of Pennsylvania), Katya Klinova (The Partnership on AI)
  Governance of AI Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Democracy in South East Europe: Backsliding or new normal?
  Damir Kapidzic (University of Sarajevo), Milada Vachudova (North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)

Thursday 21 January 2021

• 14:00 - European climate action: political economy challenges
  Various Speakers
• 17:00 - The 1984-5 Miners’ Strike: an oral history
  Robert Gildea (Oxford)
  Modern History Research Seminar

Friday 22 January 2021

• 16:00 - The Bonds of Family
  Dr Katie Donington (London South Bank University)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Algeria and Sudan: A Late Spring or an Early Summer?
  Mohanad Hashim (BBC), Dalia Ghanem (Carnegie)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 25 January 2021

• 15:00 - Changes over time in the global Multidimensional Poverty Index
  Professor Sabina Alkire (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 16:00 - Gandhian Satyagraha in the Mirror of Marxism
  Karuna Mantena (Columbia University)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Tuesday 26 January 2021

• 14:00 - Highway 31: A road trip through the heart of modern India
  Ed Simpson (SOAS< University of London)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 16:00 - What Snoopy can teach us about popular political discourse
  Dr Blake Scott Ball (Huntingdon College)
  American History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Oxford Minds Lecture - Power: how does it work in the global economy?
  Prof. Saskia Sassen (Columbia University)
  Oxford Minds from the Social Sciences Division
• 17:00 - Taking back control: Comprador bankers and the revival of developmentalism in Poland
  Dr Marek Naczyk (University of Oxford), Dr Tim Vlandas (University of Oxford), Jan Drahokoupil (European Trade Union Institute, Brussels)
• 19:00 - Can a Dictatorship be a Member of the EU?
  Professor Timothy Garton Ash (University of Oxford)
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 27 January 2021

• 17:00 - Conversation: ‘Britain and Empire in World War II’
  Ashley Jackson (King’s College, London), Iain Johnston-White (Groningen)
  History of War Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Can elections bring (real) change? Lessons learned and prospects for the Western Balkans
  Florian Bieber (Graz University; Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group), Donika Emini (Civikos Platform; Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group), Borisa Falatar (Nasa Stranka), Vujo Ilic (CRTA, Serbia), Jovana Marovic (Politikon Network, Montenegro; Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group), Tena Prelec (DPIR, Oxford; Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
• 17:30 - On 'Auschwitz': reflecting on the meaning of absolute death
  Dan Diner (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Professor Jonathan Wolff (Blavatnik School of Government), Professor Dapo Akande (Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford), Marietta van der Tol (Blavatnik School of Government)

Thursday 28 January 2021

• 13:00 - Reading Group on Religious Subjectivities
  Philippa Byrne (Oxford), Faridah Zaman (Oxford)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 17:00 - The Backlash against Global Health: Brazil, Aids, and Bolsonaro, 2007-2020
  Note this week's seminar will be held on Zoom
  Marcus Cueto (Casa de Oswaldo Cruz/Fiocruz)
  Modern History Research Seminar

Friday 29 January 2021

• 16:00 - Plagued Legacies: Rethinking Black Death Narratives
  Dr Nükhet Varlik (Rutgers University)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Iraq and Lebanon – Revolt Against Sectarianism?
  Maha Yahya ((Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Centre)), Maysoun Pachachi ((Film Director))
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 1 February 2021

• 15:00 - Moderate internationally comparable MPI
  Dr Elina Scheja (Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 16:00 - The Making of "Veer Savarkar": Methods for Writing an Intellectual History
  Vinayak Chaturvedi (University of California, Irvine)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Tuesday 2 February 2021

• 12:30 - Challenging Laws: Progress and Prospects in Overturning 150 Years of Discriminatory Sexual Offence Legislation in the Commonwealth
  Téa Braun (Human Dignity Trust), Edwin Cameron (Retired Judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa)
  Bonavero Discussion Group
• 13:00 - The Camden slave conspiracy of 1816
  Professor Tim Lockley (Warwick)
  American History Research Seminar
• 14:00 - A Contrapuntal History of Hindustan
  Dr Manan Ahmed Asif (University of Columbia)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Oxford Minds Panel Discussion - Power: what does it mean for states, markets, and society?
  Professor Andrew Hurrell (University of Oxford), Dace Dzenovska (University of Oxford), Eric Thun (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Minds from the Social Sciences Division
• 17:00 - ’68ers, ’89ers, & post-89ers: What are the key historical generations in contemporary Europe?
  Various Speakers
• 17:00 - Graduate Student Presentations - Identity
  Rhea Stark (Oxford), Matthew Wong Foreman (Northwestern University)
  Oxford Transnational and Global History Seminar
• 19:00 - The Strategic Importance of GPS
  Kishan Patel (US Space Force)
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 3 February 2021

• 14:00 - Qatari Women and the Labour Market- Towards an Empowering Alternative
  Dr. Mawahib Abubakr (Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics)
  MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars
• 17:00 - Strengthening the Rule of Law in South East Europe and the EU: Instruments, challenges and lessons learned
  Carlos Closa (European University Institute), Eli Gateva (Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford), Marko Kmezic (University of Graz)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)

Thursday 4 February 2021

• 13:00 - Postgraduate Open Day
  N/A
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 17:00 - Greed is dead: politics after individualism
  Professor Sir Paul Collier (Blavatnik School of Government), John Kay (Fellow, St John's College)
  Oxford Martin School Virtual Series: Building back better - lessons and opportunities from the COVID-19 pandemic
• 17:00 - A Human Garden. French Policy and the Transatlantic Legacies of Eugenic Experimentation
  Paul-André Rosental (Sciences Po, Paris)
  Modern History Research Seminar

Friday 5 February 2021

• 16:00 - Colonial public spheres, liberal thought and indirect rule in interwar Africa
  Professor Emma Hunter (Edinburgh)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The Place of Religion After the Uprisings
  Shadi Hamid (Brookings), Nadia Oweidat (University of Kansa)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 8 February 2021

• 14:00 - Towards equity and fairness in North-South research partnerships
  Dr Maru Mormina (University of Oxford)
  Development and Photography Ethics
• 15:00 - Multidimensional Poverty Indices and Children: Four Measurement Strategies
  Mr Jakob Dirksen (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 16:00 - The Curious Career of Shunya: Politics and Metaphysics of Caste Thinking in India
  Prathama Banerjee (Centre for the Study of Developing Societies)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 17:00 - Panel Discussion: Immigration & Empire
  Wendy Williams (HMICFRS), Prof Alex Balch (University of Liverpool), Prof Fareda Banda (SOAS University of London), Samantha Knights QC (Matrix Chambers)
  Bonavero Panel Series on the Past and Present of Slavery

Tuesday 9 February 2021

• 12:30 - Academic Freedom as a Human Right?
  Renáta Uitz (Central European University), Stefan Theil (Bonavero Institute of Human Rights)
  Bonavero Discussion Group
• 14:00 - Delusional states: Love, Citzenship and resistance in Gilgit-Baltistan
  Dr Nosheen Ali (NYU)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Is there still “rule of law” in Poland and Hungary?
  Adam Bodnar (SWPS University of Humanities and Social Sciences, Warsaw), Zsolt Enyedi (Central European University and Politics and International Relations, Oxford), Marta Bucholc (Faculty of Sociology, University of Warsaw), Timothy Garton Ash (St Antony's College)
• 17:00 - The Arab and the Jewish Questions: Geographies of Engagement in Palestine and Beyond
  Bashir Bashir (Open University of Israel), Leila Farsakh (University of Massachusetts Boston), Amal Ghazal (Simon Fraser University), Brian Klug (Universiy of Oxford), Hadeel Abu Hussein (University of Oxford)
• 19:00 - Security: What's Climate Change Got to Do with It?
  Dr Geoffrey D Dabelko (Ohio University)
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 10 February 2021

• 17:00 - Jan van Werth as military enterpriser
  Michael Kaiser (Max Weber Stiftung)
  History of War Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The struggle for redress: Victim Capital in Bosnia and Herzegovina
  Jessie Barton Jessie Barton Hronešová (Oxford Department of International Development), The Right Honourable the Lord Alderdice (Director of the Centre for Resolution of Intractable Conflicts), Jasna Dragovic-Soso (Goldsmiths, University of London)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)

Thursday 11 February 2021

• 13:00 - Virginity and Masculinity: Conceptualising Male Monastic Life in 10th Century England
  Sumner Braund (Oxford)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 16:00 - Female Husbands and Queer Wives
  Jen Manion (Amherst)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 17:00 - Bringing Order to Global Migration, 1920-1960
  Madeleine Dungy (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - SPECIAL EVENT: Reading Group in collaboration with Race Equality Action Group (REAG) 'Race, Teaching, and the University: Historians' Approaches'
  N/A
  Oxford Transnational and Global History Seminar

Friday 12 February 2021

• 16:00 - “Stop the World”: The end of empire and the “break-up of Britain”
  Professor Stuart Ward (Copenhagen)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Libya: Past, Present and Future
  Anas al-Gomati (Sadeq Institute), Mary Fitzgerald (King's College London)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 15 February 2021

• 10:00 - Book Launch: The Justice of Visual Art - Creative State-Building in Times of Transition
  Dr Eliza Garnsey (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in International Relations, University of Cambridge)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Bedil’s Bisemic Ghazal Poetics
  Prashant Keshavmurthy (McGill University)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Tuesday 16 February 2021

• 12:30 - Corporate Human Rights Due Diligence in Practice: The Union Hidalgo Case in France
  Alejandra Ancheita (Proyecto de Derechos Económicos, Sociales y Culturales, AC (ProDESC)), Miriam Saage-Maaß (European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR)), Surya Deva (City University of Hong Kong)
  Bonavero Discussion Group
• 14:00 - Encoutering Kabir: From Old Manuscripts to Living Oral Traditions
  Dr Linda Hess (Standford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Remembering American slavery and Russian serfdom during the post-Emancipation era
  Dr Amanda Bellows (The New School)
  American History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Oxford Minds Panel Discussion - Space: How is society being geographically reconfigured?
  Professor Laura Rival (University of Oxford), Michael Keith (University of Oxford), Gillian Rose (School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford)
  Oxford Minds from the Social Sciences Division
• 17:00 - Europe's Grand Strategy in a New World Order
  Bart Szewczyk (Sciences Po, Paris), Anne Deighton (DPIR, Wolfson College), Hartmut Mayer (Director of European Studies Centre, St Antony's College)
• 17:00 - Graduate Student Presentations - Global Childhood
  Raahi Adhya (SOAS, University of London), Alexandria Dugal (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Transnational and Global History Seminar
• 19:00 - Xenowar: Computational Clausewitz, the PRC/CCP Cryptosphere and Strategic Society Mechanisms for a Planetary Era
  Tom Sear (University of New South Wales)
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 17 February 2021

• 17:00 - Trans Histories Today and Tomorrow: Queer Perspectives and Popular Audiences
  Howard Chiang (UC Davis), Laurie Marhoefer (Washington), Morgan M Page (Mills College), Susan Stryker (Mills College)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 17:00 - Media in Greece: Free or dependent?
  Roman Gerodimos (Bournemouth University), Lamprini Rori (University of Exeter), Stathis Kalyvas (All Souls College, Oxford))
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)

Thursday 18 February 2021

• 17:00 - Science communication in times of emergency
  Fiona Fox (Science Media Centre), Tom Feilden (Science & Environment Editor, Today Programme (BBC Radio 4)), Professor Sir Charles Godfray (Director, Oxford Martin School)
  Oxford Martin School Virtual Series: Building back better - lessons and opportunities from the COVID-19 pandemic
• 17:00 - Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire
  Professor Sujit Sivasundaram (Cambridge)
  Modern History Research Seminar

Friday 19 February 2021

• 16:00 - Andrew Roth's End of Empire: An Unfinished History of Decolonization
  Professor Philip Murphy (School of Advanced Study)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Russia and the Arab Uprisings
  Vitaly Naumkin (Russian Academy of Sciences), Alexey Vasiliev (Russian Academy of Sciences)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 22 February 2021

• 13:00 - Invoking 'Transitional Justice' without a Transition: Reflections on Sri Lanka's Transitional Justice Programme, 2015-2019
  Kumaravadivel Guruparan (Attorney-at-Law, Sri Lanka)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 15:00 - Analysing Individual Deprivations alongside Household Poverty: Possibilities for Gendered, Intrahousehold, and Multidimensional Analyses
  The topic of this event has changed
  Dr Rizwan ul Haq (Pakistan Institute of Development Economics)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 16:00 - On Violence or the Civil War of 1947 and the Importance of Indian Political Thought
  Shruti Kapila (University of Cambridge)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 17:00 - Panel Discussion: Modern Slavery
  Dame Sara Thornton (Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner), Prof Siddharth Kara (University of Nottingham), Kate Garbers (University of Nottingham), Samantha Knights QC (Matrix Chambers)
  Bonavero Panel Series on the Past and Present of Slavery
• 18:00 - Current Debates in the Study and Protection of Displaced LGBT+ People
  Eirene Chen (UNHCR), Dr Mengia Tschalaer (City University of New York), Dr Kate Pincock (Overseas Development Institute)
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures

Tuesday 23 February 2021

• 12:30 - The UN Human Rights Committee’s General Comment 37 on the Right of Peaceful Assembly: A Conversation
  Christof Heyns (Former Member, United Nations Human Rights Committee), Marko Milanovic (University of Nottingham)
  Bonavero Discussion Group
• 14:00 - Communist Internationalism and Decolonization in South Asia
  TBA
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Branding a business of bigotry: John Van Evrie and the mass marketing of white supremacy
  Professor Michael Woods (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
  American History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Unsettling Europe: further reflections on post-1945 history
  Peter Gatrell (University of Manchester), Hartmut Mayer (Director of European Studies Centre, St Antony's College), Paul Betts (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
• 17:00 - African Cosmopolitans: Nyamwezi Men in Precolonial and Colonial East Africa
  Dr Rachel Taylor (Oxford)
  Oxford Transnational and Global History Seminar
• 19:00 - Why Nations Rise
  Professor Manjari Chatterjee Miller (Boston University)
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 24 February 2021

• 14:00 - Debating the Law, Creating Gender
  Professor Irene Schneider ((Georg-August-Universität Göttingen))
  MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars
• 17:00 - Legacies of Yugoslavia on the region’s post-communist transition
  On the occasion of the publication of the book The Legacy of Yugoslavia: Politics Economics and Society in the Modern Balkans (Bloomsbury 2020)
  Ljubica Spaskovska (University of Exeter), Milica Uvalic (University of Perugia), Ivor Sokolic (European Institute, LSE)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)

Thursday 25 February 2021

• 13:00 - "Everything A Woman Could Ask For": Irish Women in Late Nineteenth-Century America
  Beth Kitson (Oxford)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 17:00 - What Happened to Women’s Skills in the Industrial Age? Perspectives from Near and South Asia in the late 19th century
  Hatice Yildiz (University of Edinburgh)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - National infrastructure for the recovery and the long term
  Sir John Armitt (Chairman, National Infrastructure Commission), Prof Jim Hall (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Martin School Virtual Series: Building back better - lessons and opportunities from the COVID-19 pandemic
• 17:00 - The RAI Goes to the Movies: I am Not Your Negro (2016, dir. Raoul Peck, 95 min)
  Various Speakers
  Rothermere American Institute Events

Friday 26 February 2021

• 13:00 - How to fight inequality? A conversation
  Various Speakers
• 16:00 - Empire and China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)
  Professor Krishan Kumar (Virginia)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 16:30 - Mass atrocity response in China's Xinjiang province
  Various Speakers
• 17:00 - Tunisia – Unfinished Revolutions (Held jointly with the British-Tunisian Society)
  Hela Ammar, Mohamed Kerrou (University of Tunis El Manar)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
• 18:00 - Yemen: What to do next about the world's worst humanitarian crisis?
  Mark Lowcock (UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs), Professor Ngaire Woods (Dean, Blavatnik School of Government)
• 18:00 - Does anybody remember laughter? A conversation with the Swiss stand-up comedian Michael Elsener
  Michael Elsener (Swiss Stand-Up Comedian)

Monday 1 March 2021

• 13:00 - Kashmir and the State of Exception
  Habeel Iqbal (Legal Consultant, Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons, Kashmir)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 15:00 - Inequality among the multidimensionally poor in over 100 countries
  Dr Maria Emma Santos (OPHI, CONICET)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 16:00 - Graduate Student Research Presentations
  Various Speakers
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 17:00 - Oxford Minds Lecture - Identity
  Mahmood Mamdani (Columbia University)
  Oxford Minds from the Social Sciences Division

Tuesday 2 March 2021

• 12:30 - Religion is Secularised Tradition: Jewish and Muslim Circumcisions in Germany
  Lena Salaymeh (Oxford), John Bowers QC (University of Oxford)
  Bonavero Discussion Group
• 14:00 - The Play of the Guru: Braj Historical Poetry in Early Modern Punjab
  Dr Julie Vig (University of Toronto)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Educating for a new economy: the struggle to rebuild a Jim Crow state
  Dr William Goldsmith (UNC-Chapel Hill)
  American History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Oxford Minds Panel Discussion - Identity: Past, present, and future transformation
  Dr Barbara Havelková (Oxford Law Faculty ), Professor Gina Neff (Oxford Internet Institute, Department of Sociology, Senior Research Associate, Christ Church, University of Oxford), Miles Larmer (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Minds from the Social Sciences Division
• 17:00 - Between Region and Nation: Reimagining Basque Identity Within the French Nation-State, 1780-1870
  Talita Ilacqua (St Antony's College, Oxford), Paul Betts (St Antony's College, University of Oxford), Professor David Hopkin (Hertford College)
• 17:00 - Graduate Student Presentations - Colonialism on the Ground
  Lucas de Lima Silva (Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Brazil), Michele Sollai (IHEID, Geneva)
  Oxford Transnational and Global History Seminar
• 19:00 - Bringing Defence into the 21st Century
  Dr Will Roper (US Air Force)
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 3 March 2021

• 17:00 - Turkey’s new constitution: The President’s monopoly over state power and the shrinking role of the parliament and judiciary
  Bertil Emrah Oder (Koç University Law School), Ersin Mahmut Kalaycıoğlu (Sabanci University), Murat Sevinc (Author)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)

Thursday 4 March 2021

• 13:00 - Undergraduate Thesis Workshop: Approaches and Sources for Histories of Gender, Identity and Subjectivity
  Various Speakers
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 17:00 - Perceptions of Interpersonal Violence. A History of the Present
  Svenja Goltermann (Zürich)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Pandemics 101: Digital technologies, human values and building back better
  CANCELLED: Due to Vittorio Caloa’s appointment as Minister for Technological Innovation and Digital Transition in the new Italian Government, he has had to withdraw from this event
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Vittorio Colao (General Atlantic), Prof Cameron Hepburn (Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment)
  Oxford Martin School Virtual Series: Building back better - lessons and opportunities from the COVID-19 pandemic

Friday 5 March 2021

• 09:00 - Global and Imperial History graduate student research presentations
  TBA
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Counter-Revolutions Vs. Counter-Marginalization Movements: (Re)Visiting the Online Tug-of-War a Decade After the Arab Spring
  Dr. Marc Owen Jones ((Hamad Bin Khalifa University)), Dr Sahar Mohamed Khamis ((University of Maryland))
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 8 March 2021

• 13:00 - Australian War Crimes in Afghanistan: National Mechanisms, Positive Complementarity and Command Responsibility
  Douglas Guilfoyle (Associate Professor of International and Security Law, UNSW Canberra)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 15:00 - Growth elasticity of multidimensional poverty in India between 2005/06 and 2015/16
  Dr Suman Seth (University of Leeds)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 16:00 - Graduate Student Research Presentations
  Various Speakers
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Tuesday 9 March 2021

• 10:00 - The Frontier of Democracy: Audrey Tang on Taiwan’s digital democracy, collaborative civic technologies, and beneficial information flows
  Audrey Tang (Digital minister of Taiwan), Hélène Landemore (Yale University)
  Governance of AI Seminar Series
• 12:30 - From Compliance Partners to Gatekeepers? The Role of Domestic Courts in Interpreting and Enforcing IHRL
  Raffaela Kunz (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law), Alejandro Chehtman (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (Argentina))
  Bonavero Discussion Group
• 16:00 - Financial matters, Black lives: white collar crime and the racial wealth gap
  Professor Devin Fergus (Missouri)
  American History Research Seminar
• 19:00 - Key Policy Challenges Facing Biden in his First Year
  Dr Lindsay Newman (IHS Markit)
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 10 March 2021

• 13:00 - Book launch: Coevolutionary Pragmatism: Approaches and Impacts of China-Africa Economic Cooperation
  Various Speakers
  Oxford University China-Africa Network Seminar Series
• 14:30 - 'Are we building back better?' An online UN-Oxford panel discussion with leaders from key countries and international institutions.
  Ms. Svenja Schulze (Minister of Environment, Germany), Mr. Tito Titus Mboweni (TBA) (Minister of Finance, Republic of South Africa), Ms. Inger Andersen (UNEP Executive Director), Ms. Kristalina Georgieva (IMF Managing Director), Prof. Joseph Stiglitz (Economist and Nobel Laureate), Prof Cameron Hepburn (Director of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment), Brian O'Callaghan (Lead of the Oxford University Economic Recovery Project), Nozipho Tshabalala (Moderator)
• 17:00 - Oxford Minds Lecture - Belonging: What the social sciences can learn from the humanities
  Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Minds from the Social Sciences Division
• 17:00 - "Leopards, mountains and politics" with Mohammad Farhadinia
  Mohammad Farhadinia (Oxford Martin Visiting Fellow), Prof David Macdonald (Director, Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU))
• 17:00 - Managing British convoys, 1803-15: The Admiralty and Lloyd's
  Roger Knight (Greenwich)
  History of War Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Protests in the Balkans: Do they have an impact?
  Danijela Dolenec (University of Zagreb), Chiara Milan (Scuola Normale Superiore (Italy)), Julia Rone (Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge), Daniel Smilov (University of Sofia)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)

Thursday 11 March 2021

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Barbara Savage (UPenn and Oxford)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 17:00 - Slavery and the Art of Race
  Philippa Levine (Texas/Oxford)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The RAI Goes to the Movies: Sorry to Bother You (2018, dir. Boots Riley, 102 min) + Blindspotting (2018, dir. Carlos Lopez Estrada, 96 min
  Various Speakers
  Rothermere American Institute Events
• 17:00 - Emerging technology and systemic risk – maintaining a secure and resilient digital infrastructure as we build back better
  Prof Sadie Creese (Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre), Dr Jamie Saunders (Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre)
  Oxford Martin School Virtual Series: Building back better - lessons and opportunities from the COVID-19 pandemic

Friday 12 March 2021

• 09:00 - Global and Imperial History graduate student research presentations
  TBA
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Annual Lecture - Iran and the Arab Uprisings: Opportunity Grasped or Squandered?
  Professor Anoush Ehteshami (Durham University)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Balliol and the Proceeds of Slavery
  Dr Sebastian Pender (Balliol)

Tuesday 16 March 2021

• 17:00 - Oxford Minds - Oxford Social Science Discussion Panel: Belonging: what shapes societal inclusion and exclusion?
  Roger Zetter (Refugee Studies Centre), Prof. Jane Barlow (University of Oxford), Prof. Ian Thompson (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Minds from the Social Sciences Division

Wednesday 17 March 2021

• 09:30 - The European Fiscal-Military System 1530-1870: Second Project Research Workshop
  Various Speakers
• 12:30 - Treaty-Making in Business & Human Rights: Models for a Binding Instrument
  Nadia Bernaz (Wageningen University), Claire Methven O'Brien (Danish Institute for Human Rights)
  Bonavero Network Series

Friday 19 March 2021

• 12:00 - What is Social Science Innovation?
  Elizabeth Rahman (University of Oxford), Patrick Thomson (University of Oxford), Chris Fellingham (University of Oxford), Dr Mimi Zou (University of Oxford)
• 12:30 - Fiscal Policy and the National Debt Going Forward
  All Oxford University staff and students can attend these lectures for free. Please use the free student registration option when registering and use your university email address.
  Martin Ellison (Professor of Economics University of Oxford)
  The Economics of Post-Crisis Recoveries

Thursday 25 March 2021

• 14:00 - The China question: Managing risks and maximising benefits from partnership in higher education and research
  Jo Johnson (King’s College London), Jonathan Grant (King’s College London), Janet Ilieva (Education Insight)
• 17:00 - The RAI Goes to the Movies: The Watermelon Woman (1996, dir. Cheryl Dunye)
  Various Speakers
  Rothermere American Institute Events

Thursday 15 April 2021

• 14:00 - From a rebel to consumer and now a digital user: the changing role of students in British university governance
  Various Speakers

Monday 19 April 2021

• 15:00 - Horizontal and Intersecting Wealth Inequalities in Mozambique – 1997 to 2017
  Dr Ricardo Santos (UNU-WIDER)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty

Tuesday 20 April 2021

• 09:00 - Conference - Racialisation and the Media: from Television to Twitter
  Various Speakers
  Rothermere American Institute Events
• 17:15 - Oxford Spring School public lecture: Using Twitter for Social Science Research
  Arun Frey (University of Oxford), Christopher Barrie (University of Edinburgh)

Thursday 22 April 2021

• 17:15 - Oxford Spring School public lecture: MRP Modelling
  Chris Hanretty (Royal Holloway)

Monday 26 April 2021

• 13:00 - Warm Bonds or Functional Transactions? Being Neighbours During Ethnic Pogroms in India
  Raheel Dhattiwala (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 15:00 - The Policy and Advocacy Use of Multidimensional Poverty Measures
  David Stewart (UNICEF), Sólrún (Sola) Engilbertsdóttir (UNICEF)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 16:00 - Theft of Time: Notes on Spolia and the Writing of Indian History
  Sudipta Sen (University of California, Davis)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 17:00 - The way forward for carbon pricing
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 27 April 2021

• 12:30 - The UN CESCR's General Comment 25 on the Right to Enjoy the Benefits of Scientific Progress
  Rodrigo Uprimny (UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights), Leah Trueblood (University of Oxford)
  Bonavero Discussion Group
• 13:00 - Settler Colonialism, Alaska Natives, and Tribal Sovereignty: The Socio-Legal History of the Native Village of Venetie Tribal Government
  Maximilien Zahnd (RAI Fellow in Residence)
  American History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Oxford Minds Panel Discussion: Interviews
  Prof Alexander Betts (University of Oxford), Professor Diego Sánchez-Ancochea (University of Oxford), Professor Timothy Power (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Minds from the Social Sciences Division
• 17:30 - Philosophical and Theological Sources of ‘The Common Good’
  TBA
  The D'Arcy Lectures 2021: Common Good: Theological, Philosophical, Political Aspects

Thursday 29 April 2021

• 14:00 - IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva & Ian Goldin in conversation: "Roadmap to the Sustainable Development Goals"
  Professor Ian Goldin (Director, Oxford Martin Programme on Technological and Economic Change), Ms. Kristalina Georgieva (IMF Managing Director)
• 14:00 - Book Launch 'Defending humanity by protecting its heritage. A new mandate of UN peace operations' ('Défendre l’humanité en protégeant son patrimoine. Un nouveau mandat pour les opérations de paix onusiennes’ (2021, Dalloz))
  Mathilde Leloup (OxPo), Laurence Whitehead (Nuffield College, Oxford)
• 17:00 - What do European citizens want the EU to be?
  Catherine De Vries (Bocconi University)

Friday 30 April 2021

• 17:00 - Hamid Dabashi in conversation about his new book:The Last Muslim Intellectual: The Life and Legacy of Jalal Al-e Ahmad
  Hamid Dabashi ((Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York))
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 3 May 2021

• 15:00 - The Impact of the Emergency Social Safety Net (ESSN) programme on multidimensional poverty of refugees in Turkey
  Nils Grede (World Food Programme)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 16:00 - Emotions and Temporalities. On Ghosts, Jinns and their Exorcism
  Margrit Pernau (Max Planck Institute for Human Development)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 17:00 - AI and Inequality: Joseph Stiglitz in discussion with Anton Korinek
  Joseph E. Stiglitz (Columbia University), Anton Korinek (University of Virginia)
  Governance of AI Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Financing for Covid-19 and climate action? The best use of the IMF SDR allocation
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 4 May 2021

• 12:30 - The Cab Rank Rule in the Commonwealth: Reflections on the Ethical Duties of Lawyers
  Gautam Bhatia (University of Oxford), Geoffrey Budlender SC (South African Advocate), Helen Mountfield, QC (Mansfield College)
  Bonavero Discussion Group
• 13:00 - Class and State in America’s Greater Reconstruction
  Emma Teitelman (Cambridge)
  American History Research Seminar
• 14:00 - Theme Paper a) Masculinity PRESENTS: Beards in History Facial Hair and its Meanings in the Past
  Various Speakers
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 14:00 - Maoists, peasant rebellion and state formation in post-colonial Northwest Pakistan
  Noaman G Ali (LUMS)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Oxford Minds Panel Discussion: Numbers
  Max Kasy (University of Oxford), Ben Ansell (University of Oxford), Jennifer Dowd (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Minds from the Social Sciences Division
• 17:30 - Reconstructing Aristotle’s Political Philosophy
  TBA
  The D'Arcy Lectures 2021: Common Good: Theological, Philosophical, Political Aspects

Wednesday 5 May 2021

• 17:00 - Gettysburg, Race and Civil War Memory
  Adam Smith (Oxford)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 6 May 2021

• 13:00 - The Politics of Purity: Marian Theology and Feminist Feeling
  Clare Monagle (Macquarie)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 17:00 - Women and the Politics of Civility/Incivility in Parliament and Public Life
  Various Speakers
• 17:00 - The Economics of Biodiversity Review
  Sir Partha Dasgupta (University of Cambridge), Prof Cameron Hepburn (Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment)
  Oxford Martin School & Smith School Online Series: The economics of biodiversity

Friday 7 May 2021

• 12:30 - Curdling Historical Practice - How to Mix It All Up and Live with the Results
  Clare Monagle (Macquarie)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].

Monday 10 May 2021

• 13:00 - Screening and Discussion: 'Right Now I Want To Scream - Police and Army Killings in Rio'
  Register before 12.30pm on Monday, 10 May to receive the streaming link to watch the documentary film 'Right Now I Want To Scream'.
  Cahal McLaughlin (Queen's University Belfast), Siobhán Wills (Ulster University)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 15:00 - "Our History": The Everyday Social and the Sense of Historical Touch
  Sundar Sarukkai (Centre for Society and Policy, Indian Institute of Science)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 15:00 - A Multi-Country Analysis of Multidimensional Poverty in Contexts of Forced Displacement
  Dr. Yeshwas Admasu Bogale (The World Bank)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 17:00 - A transparency code for central banks: Implications for Europe
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 11 May 2021

• 12:30 - Do Companies have Human Rights? - The Emerging Jurisprudence in Regional Courts
  Patricia Wiater (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg), Nick Friedman (University of Cambridge)
  Bonavero Discussion Group
• 13:00 - “The importance of money in the therapeutic relationship”: sexual health services and the politics of LGBTQ rights in 1970s and 80s America
  Jonathan Bell (UCL)
  American History Research Seminar
• 14:00 - The place of many moods: Udaipur's painted lands and India's eighteenth century
  Dipti Khera (NYU)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Oxford Minds Panel Discussion: Archives
  Sneha Krishnan (University of Oxford), Rana Mitter (St Cross, Oxford), Sudhir Hazareesingh (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Minds from the Social Sciences Division
• 17:30 - Is Liberalism the Enemy?
  TBA
  The D'Arcy Lectures 2021: Common Good: Theological, Philosophical, Political Aspects

Wednesday 12 May 2021

• 14:00 - Women's Rights on The Altar of a Strategic Stake: The New Population Policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran
  Professor Marie Ladier-Fouladi ((CNRS)/CETOBaC)
  MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars
• 15:00 - The Afterlives of Return and the Limits of Refugee Protection | Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture
  Professor Heath Cabot (Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh)
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures

Thursday 13 May 2021

• 17:00 - How Communist Is the People’s Republic of China?
  Professor Patricia Thornton (University of Oxford), Dr Daniel Koss (Harvard University), Professor Joseph Fewsmith (Boston University), Professor Rebecca Karl (NYU)
• 18:00 - start@ox | Creandum: Hiring and Talent Acquisition for Pre-Seed Ventures
  Sign up via our Eventbrite link.
  Peter Specht (Creandum)

Monday 17 May 2021

• 15:00 - Who is Being Left Behind? Closing the Horizontal Inequality Gap
  Professor Sabina Alkire (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative), Miss Fanni Kovesdi (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative), Dr Rachel Gisselquist (UNU-WIDER), Maren Andrea Jimenez (UN-DESA)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 16:00 - Pure Kashmir: Nature in the Political Thought of Sheikh Abdullah, Muhammad Iqbal and Jawaharlal Nehru
  Amar Sohal (University of Cambridge)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Tuesday 18 May 2021

• 12:30 - Automated Decision Making and its Impact on Human Rights in a Time of COVID-19
  Eliška Pírková (Access Now), Mathias Vermeulen (AWO)
  Bonavero Discussion Group
• 13:00 - Safari for Souls: Billy Graham, US Evangelicalism, and the Cold War in Africa
  Uta Balbier (King's College London)
  American History Research Seminar
• 14:00 - Printing the Urdu public: Madinah newspaper and lithography as Muslim technology
  Megan Eaton Robb (Pennsylvania)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Is the EU a civilisational project? Does being European mean being white?
  Hans Kundnani (Chatham House)
• 17:00 - Oxford Minds Panel Discussion: Ethnography
  Dr Elizabeth Ewart (University of Oxford), Dr David Mills (University of Oxford), Professor Ruben Andersson (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Minds from the Social Sciences Division
• 17:00 - Bingham Lecture 2021 - Dr Hannah White: Against the Clock: Brexit, COVID-19 and the Constitution
  TBA
  Bingham Seminars in Constitutional Studies
• 17:30 - The Role of Conflict in a Political Account of Common Goods
  TBA
  The D'Arcy Lectures 2021: Common Good: Theological, Philosophical, Political Aspects

Wednesday 19 May 2021

• 15:30 - The History of Parliament's Oral History Project: Memories from Women MPs
  Priscila Pivatto (Houses of Parliament), Emma Peplow (Houses of Parliament)
  Oral History Seminar
• 17:00 - Book Launch: Ian Goldin: "Rescue: From Global Crisis to a Better World" chaired by Nik Gowing
  Professor Ian Goldin (Director, Oxford Martin Programme on Technological and Economic Change), Nik Gowing (Founder, Thinking the Unthinkable)
  Oxford Martin School Events
• 17:00 - "War and Violence: Understanding Soldiers" Experiences of Combat
  Mark Hewitson (UCL)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 20 May 2021

• 12:00 - Great Power Competition through a Cold War Lens
  Odd Arne Westad (Yale University), Christopher Clapham (Cambridge)
  Oxford University China-Africa Network Conference
• 12:30 - Fighting diseases of poverty through research: Deadly dilemmas, moral distress and misplaced responsibilities
  Professor Maureen Kelley (Nuffield Department of Population Health)
  New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Menstruation, the Male Gaze and Jewish Identity in the Middle Ages
  Neta Bodner (Open University of Israel)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 17:00 - Putting a value on nature: Influencing global action on environmental challenges
  Inger Andersen (Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme), Prof Cameron Hepburn (Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment)
  Oxford Martin School & Smith School Online Series: The economics of biodiversity
• 17:15 - Health Competition and Great Power Politics
  Emmanuel Balogun (Skidmore College), Joshua Eisenman (Notre Dame University), Gordon Shen (University of Texas Health Science Center), Kim Yi Dionne (UC Riverside), Mandisa Mbali (University of Cape Town)
  Oxford University China-Africa Network Conference

Friday 21 May 2021

• 17:00 - War on Bodies: Moral Immunity and the Psychopolitics of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Iran
  Dr Orkideh Behrouzan (SOAS University of London), Dr Maziyar Ghiabi (Wellcome Trust Lecturer in Medical Humanities, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter)

Saturday 22 May 2021

• 16:00 - The Sudanese Programme - Youth, Inclusivity and Participation in Politics, the Economy and Society
  Various Speakers

Monday 24 May 2021

• 15:00 - Using multidimensional poverty and vulnerability indices to inform equitable policies and interventions in health emergencies
  Dr. NILUKA WIJEKOON KANNANGARAGE (WHO), Juan Daniel Oviedo (DANE Colombia)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 16:00 - POSTPONED - Freedom Between Order and Chaos: Reading a Political Satire From India
  Jyotirmaya Sharma (Lichtenberg-Kolleg, University of Göttingen)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 17:00 - European Green Bonds and mechanisms for long-term policy commitment
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 25 May 2021

• 12:30 - Mapping the Way Forward for Human Rights in Scotland
  Alan Miller (University of Strathclyde), Hayley Hooper (University of Oxford)
  Bonavero Discussion Group
• 13:00 - Johnny Cash and Black Lives
  Michael S Foley (Université Grenoble Alpes)
  American History Research Seminar
• 17:30 - Does Political Augustinianism Help?
  TBA
  The D'Arcy Lectures 2021: Common Good: Theological, Philosophical, Political Aspects
• 18:00 - Developing post-Brexit Development Policy with Prof Amelia Hadfield
  Prof Amelia Hadfield (University of Surrey)

Thursday 27 May 2021

• 15:00 - The Cosmopolitan Standard of Civilization: A Critical Sociology of Elite Belonging Inside the Indian Foreign Service
  Dr Kira Huju (University of Oxford)
  South Asian Political Thought Seminar
• 19:00 - Oxford Syria Society Event with Dr. Sami Moubayed and Dr. Eugene Rogan: On the Syrian National Congress of 1919
  Various Speakers

Friday 28 May 2021

• 17:00 - Examination Fellowships 2021: Open Evening for BAME Candidates
  TBA

Monday 31 May 2021

• 13:00 - Book Discussion - The Rohingya, Justice and International Law
  Kriangsak Kittichaisaree (International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea), Stephen Rapp (Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law, and Armed Conflict), Priya Pillai (Asia Justice Coalition)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 16:00 - A Historian among the Goddesses of Modern India
  Sumathi Ramaswamy (Duke University)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Tuesday 1 June 2021

• 17:00 - Brexit: 6 Months On
  Various Speakers
• 17:30 - Is the Church Paternalistic in Prescribing the Common Good?
  TBA
  The D'Arcy Lectures 2021: Common Good: Theological, Philosophical, Political Aspects

Wednesday 2 June 2021

• 14:00 - Negotiating Respectability between the Space of the Prison and the Place of Woman, Egypt 1946-1965.
  Dr Hannah Elsisi (Pembroke College, University of Cambridge)
• 17:00 - Consenting to Serve the Sovereign: Military Impressment as Contract Formation, 1625-1649
  Sonia Tycko (Oxford)
  History of War Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Saving the planet: The ethical and economic case for regenerative agriculture
  Philip Lymbery (Compassion in World Farming)

Thursday 3 June 2021

• 13:00 - Gender and Justice in Late Medieval France
  Sarah McDougall (CUNY)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 15:00 - Wealth, Internationality, and Elite Education in Urban Nepal: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives
  Todd John Wallenius (Aarhus University)
  South Asian Political Thought Seminar
• 17:00 - Rethinking planetary prosperity: are we measuring what we value?
  Professor Dame Henrietta L. Moore (Institute for Global Prosperity, UCL), Professor Sir Charles Godfray (Director, Oxford Martin School)
  Oxford Martin School & Smith School Online Series: The economics of biodiversity
• 19:00 - Oxford Syria Society Event: Toward Transitional Justice in Syria
  Ibrahim Olabi (Guernica 37), Amina Koulani (Families for Freedom), Hamza Al-Kateab (Action for Sama)

Friday 4 June 2021

• 12:30 - Moral Restraint in War - Thinking about its history
  Professor Alex Bellamy (University of Queensland)

Monday 7 June 2021

• 16:00 - Monuments in Replica: Imperial Commemorations in Britain and its Colonies
  Durba Ghosh (Cornell University)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 17:00 - The role of Regional Development Banks in Europe and the rest of the world
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 8 June 2021

• 17:00 - Annual John G Winant Lecture in American Government - The American Civil Rights State: The Role of Federal Power in the Pursuit of Racial Justice
  Robert Lieberman (Johns Hopkins University)
  American History Research Seminar
• 17:30 - Politics and Law: The Limits of Bounded Rationality
  TBA
  The D'Arcy Lectures 2021: Common Good: Theological, Philosophical, Political Aspects

Wednesday 9 June 2021

• 16:00 - Embrace Dialogue Academia Seminar 8: Urban Youth and School Life in Colombia's (Post)Conflict
  Dr Diego Nieto (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali), Dr Julia Paulson (University of Bristol), Dr Gwen Burnyeat (Merton College, University of Oxford)
  Embrace Dialogue Academia Seminars

Monday 14 June 2021

• 14:00 - CGIS WIKI Hackathon
  N/A
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 16:00 - Conceptual Problems in Distinguishing Global from Planetary Histories
  Dipesh Chakrabarty (The University of Chicago)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 17:00 - Beyond COP26 - Towards more effective international climate architecture
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 15 June 2021

• 17:30 - Fraught Issues Today: Integral Ecology and Humane Economy
  TBA
  The D'Arcy Lectures 2021: Common Good: Theological, Philosophical, Political Aspects

Wednesday 16 June 2021

• 17:00 - A Global Approach to Transnational War Volunteering after 1945
  Enrico Acciai (Copenhagen)
  History of War Seminar Series
• 17:00 - St Edmund Hall Pontigny Lecture - 'Global Governance in a Contested World'.
  Sir Mark Sedwill (Alumnus of St Edmund Hall)

Thursday 17 June 2021

• 12:30 - Evaluating and investing in Nature-based Solutions
  Prof Nathalie Seddon (Director, Nature-based Solutions Initiative), Prof Cameron Hepburn (Director of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment)
  Oxford Martin School & Smith School Online Series: The economics of biodiversity
• 13:00 - Women and Musical Performance in Early Twentieth-Century Britain
  Leah Broad (Oxford)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 17:00 - Book discussion: A Citizen’s Guide to the Rule of Law
  Adis Merdzanovic (School of Management and Law, Zurich University of Applied Sciences), Kalypso Nicolaidis (School of Transnational Governance, European University Institute), Alexander Stubb (School of Transnational Governance, European University Institute), Othon Anastasakis (SEESOX, St Antony's College, Oxford), Sarah Nouwen (School of Transnational Governance, European University Institute), Marta Pardavi (School of Transnational Governance, European University Institute)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)

Monday 21 June 2021

• 17:00 - Redesigning AI for Shared Prosperity: An Agenda by Stephanie Bell and Katya Klinova
  TBA
  Governance of AI Seminar Series

Wednesday 23 June 2021

• 18:00 - Technology & Society Digital Series: Cybersecurity - Combating Cyber Attacks Across Borders
  Registration through eventbrite - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/technology-society-cybersecurity-combating-cyber-attacks-across-borders-tickets-155601804185
  John Demers (Assistant Attorney General for USDOJ’s National Security Division), Tarah Wheeler (Cyber Project Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs - Harvard University‘s Kennedy School of Government), Chimène Keitner (Alfred & Hanna Fromm Professor of International Law, UC Hastings Law), Fernanda Domingos (Federal Prosecutor Brazil, Federal Prosecutor's Office of the State of Sao Paulo)
  Technology and Society Digital Series

Thursday 24 June 2021

• 15:00 - The Anti-CAA Protests and Constructing New Languages of Citizenship in West Bengal
  Adil Hossain (Azim Premji University)
  South Asian Political Thought Seminar
• 16:00 - Round-table ‘Community, Brexit and Fiction’
  Various Speakers

Friday 25 June 2021

• 14:00 - Controlling Movements and Populations: State-Building and Internal Mobility Control in Germany, the US, and the British Empire
  Jasper Kauth (Nuffield College)
  Oxford History & Social Science Workshop
• 14:00 - Democratic Leadership under Scrutiny: The Presidency of Raúl Alfonsín during Argentina’s Democratization (1983-1989)
  Emilie Curryovà (St. Antony's College)
  Oxford History & Social Science Workshop

Monday 11 October 2021

• 16:00 - The making of a populist: Entering politics and autonomy-seeking in contemporary India
  Dr Jean-Thomas Martelli (Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 16:00 - Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2021 - Unmasking Disparities: Ethnicity, Race, and Gender
  Professor Sabina Alkire (University of Oxford), Heriberto Tapia (UNDP HDRO), Yanchun Zhang (UNDP HDRO), Sophie Scharlin-Pettee (University of Oxford)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 17:00 - The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives - Opening session
  Full conference agenda can be found here: https://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/webinar_series_programme_0.pdf
  Cyrus Schayegh, Stephanie Cronin (University of Oxford)
  The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives

Tuesday 12 October 2021

• 12:30 - Towards a Normative Theory of Just Riots
  Jonathan Havercroft (University of Southampton), Dr Nadine El-Enany (Birkbeck)
  Bonavero Discussion Group
• 14:00 - Borders and Identities: Who is a “Bangladeshi” in Assam?
  Malini Sur (University of Western Sydney)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Round Table discussion on Gender on the Margins in Global History
  Dr Rachel Taylor, Dr Manikarnika Dutta, David Damtar, Chair: Dr Yasmin Khan
  Oxford Transnational and Global History Seminar
• 19:00 - The Catastrophe in Afghanistan, Competition with China, and the Need to Rebuild Strategic Competence
  HR McMaster
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Friday 15 October 2021

• 14:30 - The Future of Foreign Policy is Feminist - Insights from building a feminist startup to change the status quo of foreign policy
  Kristina Lunz (Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series
• 16:00 - Violent Fraternity: Indian Political Thought in the Global Age
  Dr Shruti Kapila (Cambridge)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Roundtable: The Environment and the Middle East
  Various Speakers
• 17:00 - British-German relations after Brexit and the German elections
  Attendees are asked to: Take a lateral flow test on the morning of the event. If positive, stay at home Stay home if you feel unwell Wear a face covering one while moving around indoor spaces where possible, while seated, particularly during larger events Be considerate of other people’s space Wash your hands regularly with soap or sanitiser Use the official NHS QR code posters displayed throughout the College site.
  Various Speakers
  European Studies Seminar

Monday 18 October 2021

• 16:00 - Savarkar and the Making of Hindutva “Secularism”
  Dr Vikram Visana (University of Huddersfield)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 16:00 - On Data Availability for Assessing Monetary and Multidimensional Poverty
  Change of topic for this session. The original session is postponed.
  Professor Sabina Alkire (University of Oxford), Yanchun Zhang (UNDP HDRO), Heriberto Tapia (UNDP HDRO)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 17:00 - The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives Webinar Series - Transnationalism in the Middle East
  Full conference agenda can be found here: https://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/webinar_series_programme_0.pdf
  Marral Shamshiri-Fard, Jeremy Randall, Fadi Kafeety, Dr Toby Matthiesen (LSE), Golnar Nikpour
  The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives

Tuesday 19 October 2021

• 14:00 - Affect as a Technology of Rule: Militarism in Pakistan
  Maria Rashid (UCL)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Roundtable in Conjunction with the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations: ‘Women’s Worlds: New Histories of the United States and the World.’
  Jenifer Chochinov (Kings), Katie Fapp (Oxford), Alex Penler (LSE), Comment: Katharina Rietzler (Sussex), Chair: Stephen Tuffnell (Oxford), Chair: Elisabeth Leake (Leeds)
  American History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Mixed Methods: crossing the qual-quant divide
  Dr Olivier Sterck (University of Oxford), Prof Leigh Payne (University of Oxford), Prof Heather Hamill (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Minds from the Social Sciences Division
• 17:00 - The Transformation of British Welfare Policy: Politics, discourse and public opinion
  If you would like to attend this event in person, please register with Eventbrite (use link to the web-page below). Places are limited due to our social distancing policy. Attendees are asked to: Take a lateral flow test on the morning of the event. If positive, stay at home Stay home if you feel unwell Wear a face covering one while moving around indoor spaces where possible, while seated, particularly during larger events Be considerate of other people’s space Wash your hands regularly with soap or sanitiser Use the official NHS QR code posters displayed throughout the College site. If you would to join online, please register with Zoom (See link to website below).
  Tom O'Grady (University College London), Daniel McArthur (Schoolpol, Oxford)
  European Studies Seminar

Wednesday 20 October 2021

• 12:00 - Online panel discussion: "National ‘fair shares’ in GHG mitigation, international environmental law & climate litigation"
  Professor Dr Niklas Höhne (Founding Partner, NewClimate Institute), Dr Louise Jeffery (Climate Policy Analyst, NewClimate Institute), Gerry Liston (Legal Officer, Global Legal Action Network (GLAN)), Lucy Maxwell (Senior Legal Associate, Climate Litigation Network), Professor Lavanya Rajamani (Faculty of Law)
  Oxford Martin School Events
• 17:00 - South East Asia and World War II
  Gregg Huff (Oxford)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 21 October 2021

• 13:00 - CGIS Brief Encounters
  Various Speakers
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 13:30 - Do we need another COP? If not, then what?
  Cameron Hepburn, Dr Thomas Hale (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford), Dr Adam Parr (Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment), Dean Adil Najam (Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University), Pilita Clark (Financial Times), Dr ingrid Barnsley (OECD - OCDE)
• 17:00 - The international role of the Euro
  Attendees are asked to: Take a lateral flow test on the morning of the event. If positive, stay at home Stay home if you feel unwell Wear a face covering one while moving around indoor spaces where possible, while seated, particularly during larger events Be considerate of other people’s space Wash your hands regularly with soap or sanitiser Use the official NHS QR code posters displayed throughout the College site.
  Klaus Regling (European Stability Mechanism)
  European Political Economy Project (EuPEP)

Friday 22 October 2021

• 12:00 - Red/White/Yellow: Considering the Racial Situation in Japan from the Perspective of Marriage Discrimination Experienced by Ainu Women
  TBA
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
• 16:00 - Colombo as Idea and Artefact
  Professor Sujit Sivasundaram (Cambridge)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - MEC Friday Webinar Series - Dr Hussam Hussein - The politics of water scarcity in the case of Jordan
  Registration is essential
  Dr. Hussam Hussein, Lecturer in International Relations at DPIR, Oxford Martin School Fellow in Water Diplomacy, and Fulford Junior Research Fellow at Somerville College
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 25 October 2021

• 15:00 - Book Discussion: Transitional Justice in Peacebuilding - Actor-Contingent and Malleable Justice
  This event will run as a Zoom meeting. To attend, register here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcqdu2gqj8pGtBl4rzGa-HaUkPeau3u51VO
  Dr Djeyhoun Ostowar
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Feminist Historiography and the Political: Reflections on the Past and Future Tense
  Professor Mrinalini Sinha (University of Michigan)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 16:00 - Measuring the Statistical Capacity of Nations
  Professor James Foster (Georges Washington University)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 17:00 - The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives Webinar Series - A Global Palestine
  Full conference agenda can be found here: https://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/webinar_series_programme_0.pdf
  Sune Haugbolle, Pelle Valentin Olsen, Sorcha Thomson, Ilan Pappé
  The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives

Tuesday 26 October 2021

• 12:30 - Assam Citizenship Verification Process and India's Citizenship Amendment Act
  This event will run as a Zoom webinar. To attend, register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_z2-rIKgNQmyfui-bn_obew
  Rupali Samuel (Parichay), Bronwen Manby (London School of Economics and Political Science)
  Bonavero Discussion Group
• 14:00 - Decolonise Mosquitoes
  Rohan Deb Roy (University of Reading)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 16:30 - Roundtable: Medicine and Slavery in Early America
  Eric Herschthal (Oxford), Carolyn Roberts (Oxford), Suman Seth (Oxford), Chair: Katherine Paugh (Oxford)
  American History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Václav Havel's Contested Legacy in Central Europe
  Online webinar
  Jacques Rupnik (Sciences Po, Paris), Michal Šimečka (European Parliament Renew Europe Group), Jessie Hronesova (Oxford department of International Development), Timothy Garton Ash (St Antony's College)
  European Studies Seminar
• 20:00 - Russia and its Armed Forces: A view from the British Embassy
  Captain Chris Connolly OBE
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 27 October 2021

• 14:00 - Exclusion and Resistance: The Betrayal of the Afghan Peace Process
  Registration essential
  Lina Tori Jan (St. Antony’s College | Master of Public Policy, Blavatnik School of Government)
  MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars
• 17:00 - Panel Discussion: "What does the future hold for cities, climate change and migration"
  In-person attendance is fully booked, but you can watch online via Crowdcast or Youtube
  Prof Susan Parnell (PEAK Urban), Professor Tim Schwanen (Transport Studies Unit University of Oxford ), Prof Kazem Rahimi (University of Oxford), Prof Michael Keith (COMPAS, University of Oxford)
  Oxford Martin School Events
• 17:00 - Afghan crisis, migration diplomacy and Turkey-EU relations
  This is a hybrid event. If you are attending in person, you are asked to: Take a lateral flow test on the morning of the event. If positive, stay at home. Stay home if you feel unwell. Wear a face covering one while moving around indoor spaces where possible, while seated, particularly during larger events. Be considerate of other people’s space. Wash your hands regularly with soap or sanitiser. Use the official NHS QR code posters displayed throughout the College site.
  Othon Anastasakis (SEESOX, St Antony's College, Oxford), Franck Düvell (Osnabrück University), Başak Kale (METU), Mehmet Karli (SEESOX, St Antony's College, Oxford), Kemal Kirişci (Brookings Institution)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)

Thursday 28 October 2021

• 14:00 - Responding to service fragmentation: outcomes contracts and collaboration in cross-sector ecosystems of support
  Professor Alnoor Ebrahim (Tufts University), Dr Eleanor Carter (University of Oxford), Franziska Rosenbach (University of Oxford), Richard Johnson (Global Fund), Sarah Cooke (Kirklees Better Outcomes Partnership), Val Keen (UK Government)
  Engaging with Evidence series

Friday 29 October 2021

• 15:15 - The Antebellum African American Press and Solidarity with Japan
  Dr Natalia Doan (University of Oxford)
  Black Transnationalism and Japan Conference
• 15:40 - What "Japan's Black Studies" Teaches Us about Race and Solidarity
  Professor Yuichiro Onishi (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
  Black Transnationalism and Japan Conference
• 16:00 - The 1972 Ugandan Asian Expulsion: Making a Transnational Diaspora fit a World of Nation-States
  Dr Ria Kapoor (Manchester)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 16:20 - Intimacy as Methodology: Black and Japanese Relations in Postwar America
  Dr Sonia Gomez (Santa Clara University)
  Black Transnationalism and Japan Conference
• 17:00 - MEC Friday Webinar Series - The Blue-Clad Fennec: Authoritarian Environmentalism in Tunisia, and its Afterlives
  Registration essential.
  Dr. Jamie Furniss, Institut de recherche sur le Maghreb contemporain (Tunis)/Department of Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
• 18:05 - Epistemology of the Violets: Heuristics toward a Sensorium of Afro-Japanese Co-creativity
  Dr. Will Bridges (University of Rochester)
  Black Transnationalism and Japan Conference
• 18:35 - Cold Japan: Grime Cyborgs in Black London
  Warren A. Stanislaus (University of Oxford)
  Black Transnationalism and Japan Conference
• 19:05 - Afro-Asia as Neoliberal Intimacy: Black-Japanese Mixed-Race Experiences in Contemporary Japan
  Professor Marvin D. Sterling (Indiana University, Bloomington)
  Black Transnationalism and Japan Conference

Monday 1 November 2021

• 13:00 - Book Discussion: Dealing with the Authoritarian Past in Brazil - From Cardoso to Rousseff
  This event will run as a Zoom meeting. To attend, register here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwkd-qtpj8qGt3NlpB95QdsDnhoESuAy-hA
  Dr Gisele Iecker de Almeida (Cardiff University)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 16:00 - The Nomos of the Globe: Currency, Empire and Financialization
  Professor Ritu Birla (University of Toronto)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 17:00 - The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives Webinar Series - Maoism in the Middle East and North Africa
  Full conference agenda can be found here: https://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/webinar_series_programme_0.pdf
  Jiayi Zhu, William Figueroa, Leonard Michael, Idriss Jebari, Afshin Matin-Asgari
  The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives

Tuesday 2 November 2021

• 14:00 - The Lessons of 1950: Partition, and the making of the India- Pakistan Dynamic
  Pallavi Raghavan (Ashoka University, Delhi)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 16:00 - ‘Concealed Interventions’ (NB: this is a pre-circulated paper, please)
  Daniel Rowe (Oxford), Chair: Stephen Tuffnell (Oxford)
  American History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Theory-Building: generating testable abstractions
  Prof Federico Varese (University of Oxford), Dr Martha Newson (University of Oxford), Professor Andrea Ruggeri (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Minds from the Social Sciences Division
• 17:00 - Graduate Student Presentations (TBC)
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Transnational and Global History Seminar
• 17:00 - Paradoxes of leadership in European foreign policy
  This is a hybrid event
  Lisbeth Aggestam (University of Gothenberg; St Antony’s College, Oxford)
  European Studies Seminar

Wednesday 3 November 2021

• 17:00 - Small-unit leadership on the Eastern Front during the First World War in the mirror of Alexander Watson’s work on the Western Front
  Roger Reese (Texas A&M)
  History of War Seminar Series
• 17:00 - All the President’s Men: Institutions and key players in Erdogan’s Turkey
  This is a hybrid event
  Selim Koru (Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey), Sinem Adar (German Institute for International and Security Affairs)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
• 17:15 - Creating a Concept: ‘Friendship’ in International Relations
  Felix Berenskötter (Head of Department and Senior Lecturer in International Relations at SOAS, University of London)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series

Thursday 4 November 2021

• 13:00 - Sexual Violence and Social Contract: A History of Violence from Sati to Gang-Rape in India
  Shruti Kapila (University of Cambridge)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 20:00 - How ISIS Fights: present and future of nonstate combat effectiveness
  Dr Omar Ashour
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Friday 5 November 2021

• 16:00 - Intimate Solidarities: Mobility and Hospitality in the Women’s International Socialist Movement 1955-1970
  Dr Su Lin Lewis (Bristol)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - MEC Friday Webinar Series -Environment Discounted: Energy and Economic Diversification Plans in the Gulf
  Dr. Manal Shehabi, Academic Visitor, St. Antony's College, University of Oxford; Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 8 November 2021

• 16:00 - Freedoms after Freedom: Lawyering as Political Practice in Post-Independent India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka
  Professor Rohit De (Yale University)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 16:00 - Social Protection and Multidimensional Poverty
  Dr Liyousew Borga (University of Luxembourg), Dr Conchita D’Ambrosio (University of Luxembourg)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 17:00 - The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives Webinar Series - Late Pahlavi Iran
  Full conference agenda can be found here: https://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/webinar_series_programme_0.pdf
  Ali Mirsepassi, Arash Azizi, Siavush Ranjbar Daemi, Edmund Herzig
  The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives
• 17:00 - Should we talk about fascism in Europe today?
  Hybrid event
  Lenka Bustikova (Arizona State University), Jane Caplan (St Antony's College, Oxford), Tim Vlandas (St Antony's College, Oxford), Othon Anastasakis (SEESOX, St Antony's College, Oxford)
  European Studies Seminar

Tuesday 9 November 2021

• 14:00 - Citizenship, Publicness and the Politics of Inclusive Democracy in India
  Suryakant Waghmore (IIT-Bombay), Hugo Gorringe (University of Edinburgh)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 15:00 - 'The French Citizens Convention for the Climate: a reassessment'
  Mathilde Imer, Erica Hope (European Climate Foundation), Graham Smith (KNOCA/Centre for the Study of Democracy)
• 17:00 - Life at the Social and Imperial Margins: The World of Prostitution in the late Russian Empire
  Dr Siobhan Hearne (Durham University)
  Oxford Transnational and Global History Seminar
• 17:00 - Laxman Narasimhan & Colin Mayer in Conversation: 'The role of business in reviving left behind places'
  Laxman Narasimhan (CEO, Reckitt), Professor Colin Mayer (Oxford)
  Oxford Martin School Series: Levelling-up regional disparities, inequality and social inclusion
• 17:00 - St Antony's, Germany and Britain: A memorial event for Professor A J (Tony) Nicholls
  Online event
  Various Speakers
  European Studies Seminar
• 18:00 - UK-France Security and Defence Cooperation in a Post-Brexit World
  Dr Alice Pannier, Admiral Luc Pagès, Dr Benedict Wilkinson
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 10 November 2021

• 17:00 - 'Empire, Asylum, and Refugee Responsibility Sharing' l The Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture 2021
  E. Tendayi Achiume
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures
• 17:00 - The Tunisian Political Crisis; the end of Democracy?
  Registration essential
  Youssef Cherif (Director, Columbia Global Centers|Tunis), Dr Anne Wolf (Fellow, All Souls College, University of Oxford)

Thursday 11 November 2021

• 13:00 - Undergraduate Workshop: Incorporating Gender, Identity and Subjectivity into Essays
  Various Speakers
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 17:00 - Prof Alison Wolf, Ian Stuart and Sir Chris Husbands in conversation: 'Britain's long-running 'skills crisis': why can't we fix it? and what would it take to do so?'
  Alison Wolf (Baroness Wolf of Dulwich) (King's College London), Sir Chris Husbands (Vice-Chancellor, Sheffield Hallam University), Ian Stuart (Chief Executive, HSBC)
  Oxford Martin School Series: Levelling-up regional disparities, inequality and social inclusion
• 17:30 - (Online) The Politics of Land: Pre-Colonial and Post-Colonial Perspectives on the Situation of First Nations in Canada
  Professor John Berkman (The Laudato Si' Research Institute)

Friday 12 November 2021

• 15:30 - Insights for Action: The Systems Work of Social Change
  Dr Francois Bonnici (public health physician, professor, social change practitioner and foundation leader), Sheela Patel (founding director of the Society for Promotion of Area Resource Centres (SPARC)), Cynthia Rayner (researcher, writer, and lecturer affiliated with the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation at the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business), Professor Paulo Savaget (Associate Professor of Engineering at Saïd Business School and the Department of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford)
• 16:00 - Russian Turkestan and the First World War
  Dr Alexander Morrison (New College, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Air Pollution, Toxicity, and Environmental Politics in the History of Iranian Oil Nationalisation
  Registration essential
  Dr Mattin Biglari (SOAS London)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 15 November 2021

• 15:00 - Afghanistan: What went wrong? Who is to blame? What next?
  Please note this is open to members of Oxford University only. Please register using your Oxford email address.
  Peter W Galbraith (former US diplomat)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series
• 16:00 - They Refused to Tell Me Their Dreams: Psychoanalysis, Colonialism, Trans
  Dr Akshi Singh (Queen Mary University of London)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 16:00 - On Track or Not? Projecting the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index
  Dr Nicolai Suppa (OPHI, CED)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 17:00 - The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives Webinar Series - Lebanon
  Full conference agenda can be found here: https://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/webinar_series_programme_0.pdf
  Nathaniel George, Yvonne Albers, Zeina Maasri, Fadi Bardawil
  The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives

Tuesday 16 November 2021

• 12:15 - "Conflict resolution for the future of biodiversity conservation" with Dr Alexandra Zimmermann
  Dr Alexandra Zimmerman (Senior Research Fellow, WildCRU), Prof David Macdonald (Director, Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU))
  Oxford Martin School Events
• 14:00 - Hidden histories of science; Ammal, Darlington, Haldane, and India, 1930-1060
  Vinita Damodaran (Sussex)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Intersectionality: making sense of power and identity
  Prof Nick Owen (University of Oxford), Prof Nikita Sud (University of Oxford), Prof Rossella Ciccia (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Minds from the Social Sciences Division
• 17:00 - Dave Smith & Prof Colin Mayer in Conversation: 'Renewing South Yorkshire: seizing new opportunities, overcoming old constraints'
  Dr Dave Smith (Chief Executive, South Yorkshire City-Region Authority), Professor Colin Mayer (Oxford)
  Oxford Martin School Series: Levelling-up regional disparities, inequality and social inclusion
• 19:00 - The American War in Afghanistan: Why We Failed
  Dr Carter Malkasian
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 17 November 2021

• 12:00 - Response to the Harmsworth Lecture
  Frank Cogliano (Edinburgh), Chair: Adam Smith (Oxford)
  American History Research Seminar
• 16:00 - Social Change through Presence: White Marriage in Iran
  Dr Maral Sahebjame (Near and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Washington)
  MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars
• 17:00 - Mapping the impact of the Thirty Years War in Central Europe
  Note this seminar is not in-person but will be held on Zoom, for which please register at the link below
  Peter H Wilson (Oxford), Katerina Tkacova (Oxford), Thomas Pert (Oxford)
  History of War Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The Greek Military Dictatorship: Revisiting a Troubled Past, 1967-1974
  Hybrid event - Live and online
  Othon Anastasakis (SEESOX, St Antony's College, Oxford), Foteini Dimirouli (Keble College, Oxford), Kostis Kornetis (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid), Katerina Lagos (California State University, Sacramento)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)

Thursday 18 November 2021

• 13:00 - Menstruation, the Male Gaze and Jewish Identity in the Middle Ages
  Neta Bodner (Open University of Israel)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 15:00 - Reclaiming Populism
  Eric Protzer (Research Fellow at Harvard University’s Growth Lab), Paul Summerville
  INET Oxford Researcher Seminars
• 17:00 - Ron Emerson & Colin Mayer in conversation: 'Private financing levelling-up: an idea of its time'
  Ron Emerson (Chairman, Bank North), Professor Colin Mayer (Oxford)
  Oxford Martin School Series: Levelling-up regional disparities, inequality and social inclusion
• 17:30 - Vaccine policies and challenge trials: the ethics of relative risk in public health
  This event will be held both online and in-person. See webpage for booking/registration links. If attending in-person, please note the following: Please do not attend the seminar if you are displaying any symptoms of COVID-19. Social distancing is no longer mandatory, however we will be running at a reduced capacity until further notice to allow people to maintain a comfortable distance and be considerate of others’ space. The wearing of face coverings is no longer mandatory however we strongly encourage the use of face coverings when moving around the building and using communal spaces, corridors, bathrooms etc. Regular symptom-free testing will continue to be strongly encouraged for all staff who are working on site.
  Dr Sarah Chan (University of Edinburgh)
  New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar Series

Friday 19 November 2021

• 14:00 - 'Youth and politics in the French banlieue'
  Dr Insa Koch (LSE), Prof Marie-Hélène Bacqué (Paris Nanterre University), Michael Keith (University of Oxford)
• 16:00 - From Bohemia to Balintawak, Baku to Bandung, Antananarivo and Guangzhou to Điện Biên Phủ: Cosmopolitan Circuitries of Revolution in Southeast Asia
  Professor John T Sidel (London School of Economics)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Failing Flows: The Politics of Water Management in Southern Iraq
  Registration essential
  Dr Michael Mason (Director of the Middle East Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 22 November 2021

• 16:00 - British Imperial Thought, British Nationality, and Overseas Indians after 1947
  Dr Ian Sanjay Patel (London School of Economics)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 16:00 - Predicting and Mapping MPI using Geospatial and Combined Disparate Data Sources
  Dr Neeti Pokhriyal (Dartmouth), Dr Damien Christophe Jacques (Louvain)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 17:00 - The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives Webinar Series - The Developmental State
  Full conference agenda can be found here: https://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/webinar_series_programme_0.pdf
  Touraj Atabaki, Max Ajl, Philip Marfleet, Cyrus Schayegh
  The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives
• 17:00 - Rethinking the Sahel: Climate, Social Capital and Knowledge
  Nora Berrahmouni (FAO), Ousseyne Kalilou (Chair of the Forest Interest Group of the Environmental Peacebuilding Association), Dr Cheikh Mbow (University of Pretoria)
  Climate Change and the Challenges of Development

Tuesday 23 November 2021

• 12:00 - Intimacy and Violence: The making of gendered margins and criminalized people in colonial India
  **Note special time: 12:00-13.30 GMT**
  Dr jessica Hinchy (Nanyang Technological University)
  Oxford Transnational and Global History Seminar
• 14:00 - Atrocity Nation / State Amnesia : The Photographic Debris of the Sri Lankan Civil War
  Vindhya Buthpitiya (University of St Andrews)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - ‘The World is Watching Us’: The Politics of Universalism and Particularism in Czechoslovakia, 1918-1992
  Online webinar
  Martin Schulze Wessel
  ESC Core Seminar Series
• 17:30 - Romanes Lecture: Lessons from the Vaccine Taskforce
  The Honourable Dame Catherine Elizabeth Bingham
• 20:00 - Scottish Foreign and Defence Policy and the Implications of Scottish Independence
  Dame Mariot Leslie DCMG
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 24 November 2021

• 17:00 - The political economy of Nigeria: challenges and opportunities for reform
  Professor Kingsley Moghalu (Visiting Fellow, Oxford Martin School)
  Oxford Martin School Events
• 17:00 - Bulgarian elections: Third time lucky?
  Hybrid seminar: Live and online
  Eli Gateva (Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford), Kyril Drezov (Keele University)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
• 17:00 - History on the Margins: The Problem of Persian Historiography in the Deccan Sultanates
  Dr Roy Fischel (Department of History, SOAS)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 19:00 - Commemorating Four Disappeared Syrian Human Rights Activists - Oxford Syria Society Event With Yassin Al-Haj Saleh, Lubna Al-Kanawati and Sarah Hunaidi
  Yassin Al-Haj Saleh (Al-Jumhuriya), Lubna Al Kanawati

Thursday 25 November 2021

• 17:00 - Afghanistan and the Middle East
  Dr Ibrahim al-Marashi (California State University), Kate Clark (Journalist)

Friday 26 November 2021

• 16:00 - The Law of Force: The Violent Heart of Indian Politics
  Professor Thomas Blom Hansen (Stanford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Climate, Colonialism, and Zionism in Palestine (1882-1948): New Historiographical Perspectives
  Dr Netta Cohen (Christ Church, Oxford University)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
• 18:00 - Syria: The Making and Unmaking of a Refuge State - Oxford Syria Society Talk with Professor Dawn Chatty
  Professor Dawn Chatty (University of Oxford)

Monday 29 November 2021

• 16:00 - The Option of Nonviolence
  Dr Humeira Iqtidar (King's College London)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 16:00 - Distributional Impacts of Cash Transfers on the Multidimensional Poverty of Refugees: The ESSN programme in Turkey
  Dr Matthew Robson (University of York)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 17:00 - The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives Webinar Series - Gender in the Global Middle East and North Africa
  Full conference agenda can be found here: https://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/webinar_series_programme_0.pdf
  Faika Çelik, Aliye Gamze Sarıtunalı, Amy Kallander, Hannah Elsisi Ashmawi, Laleh Khalili
  The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives
• 17:00 - Book discussion: Europe Beyond the Euro
  Online webinar
  Charles Enoch (St Antony's College, Oxford)
  European Political Economy Project (EuPEP)

Tuesday 30 November 2021

• 17:00 - Policy Impact: from recommendations to transformation
  Dr Michelle Meadows (University of Oxford), Dr Tom Hale (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University), Prof Abi Adams-Prassl (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Minds from the Social Sciences Division
• 17:00 - Special event in conjunction with REAG (Race Equality Action Group)
  TBA
  Oxford Transnational and Global History Seminar
• 17:00 - Europe in a changing world: The view from outside
  Hybrid seminar
  Ezgi Basaran (St Antony’s College, Oxford) (St Antony’s College, Oxford), Dr Kira Huju (University of Oxford), Prof. Rana Mitter (University of Oxford), David Priestland (University of Oxford)
  European Studies Seminar
• 20:00 - Overseas Counter-Terrorism - how does the West defeat Al-Qaida and Islamic State?
  Will Evans OBE
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 1 December 2021

• 16:00 - Surviving the 21st Century
  Space is limited to 38 people.
  TBA
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series
• 17:00 - Military Welfare in early modern Europe
  Ismini Pells (Oxford)
  History of War Seminar Series
• 17:30 - The Newman Lecture 2021 - Human Rights: A Moral Language for Our Times
  Professor Linda Hogan (Trinity College Dublin)

Thursday 2 December 2021

• 12:30 - CGIS Workshop: Gender History and the Worlds of Care
  Erin Maglaque (Sheffield)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 13:00 - Supporting refugees through cross-sector collaborations and innovative financing
  Prof Alexander Betts (University of Oxford), Tanyah Hameed (Blavatnik School of Government), Stéphane Saussier (Sorbonne Business School), Simon Porcher (Sorbonne Business School), Béatrice Delperdange (KOIS), Joanna Penrose Buckley (Home Office, UK Government), Samir Omar (S-Bank, Finland)
  Engaging with Evidence series
• 17:00 - Open Balkans and/or European integration: An answer or a diversion?
  Online webinar
  Dritan Abazovic (Deputy Prime Minister of Montenegro), Albin Kurti (Prime Minister of Kosovo) (Albin Kurti (Prime Minister of Kosovo)), Zef Mazi (Chief Negotiator with The European Union), Bujar Osmani (Minister of Foreign Affairs, North Macedonia), Jessie Barton Hronešová (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) (Jessie Barton Hronešová (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill))
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)

Friday 3 December 2021

• 16:00 - Empire of the Sand? Persian Gulf “Piracy”, the French threat to India, and British imperial responses
  Dr Guillemette Crouzet (Warwick)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - What does political ecology tell us about the environmental crises in the Middle East
  Registration essential
  Dr Christian Henderson, Assistant Professor at Leiden Institute for Area Studies, Leiden University
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Panel discussion: 'Capitalism: what has gone wrong, what needs to change and how can it be fixed?'
  In-person attendance is fully booked but online attendance is still open
  Professor Sir Paul Collier (Blavatnik School of Government), Professor Colin Mayer (Oxford), Martin Wolf CBE (Financial Times), Prof Diane Coyle (University of Cambridge), Professor Sir Charles Godfray (Director, Oxford Martin School)
  Oxford Martin School Series: Levelling-up regional disparities, inequality and social inclusion

Monday 6 December 2021

• 16:00 - Why are Kurdish people risking their lives to seek asylum?
  Kamal Chomani
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures

Monday 10 January 2022

• 15:00 - Undoing Discriminatory Borders
  Professor Shreya Atrey (University of Oxford), Professor E. Tendayi Achiume ((UCLA and UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance)), Professor Cathryn Costello (Hertie School and University of Oxford), Dr Catherine Briddick (University of Oxford), Professor Anuscheh Farahat (Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg), Professor Liav Orgad (WZB, EUI, IDC, STL), Professor Colm O’Cinneide (UCL)
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures

Wednesday 12 January 2022

• 15:00 - Oxford Political Thought Seminar - Caliphate
  Hüseyin Yilmaz (George Mason University), Elizabeth Alexandrin (University of Manitoba)
  Contemporary Islamic Studies Programme

Thursday 13 January 2022

• 18:00 - Oxford Re-Formed
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Various Speakers

Monday 17 January 2022

• 16:00 - Rule by Fear: Conceptualizing Democracy and Authoritarianism in Pakistan
  Dr Ammar Ali Jan (Haqooq-e-Khalq Movement)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Tuesday 18 January 2022

• 14:00 - Researching South Asia: Kashmir
  Mona Bhan (Syracuse University), Mohamad Junaid (MCLA), Hafsa Kanjwal (Lafayette College)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us, with Brian Klaas
  Brian Klaas (UCL)
  Bingham Seminars in Constitutional Studies

Thursday 20 January 2022

• 13:00 - Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin’s Russia
  Online via Zoom
  Timothy Frye (Columbia University)
  REES Authors Meet Critics Seminar Series
• 13:00 - The Question of the Female Slave Community and Culture in the American South
  Brenda Stevenson (Oxford)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 17:00 - ROUNDTABLE - Blood and Ruins: The Great Imperial war, 1931-1945
  NOTE: This seminar has had to move entirely online - please email patricia.clavin@history.ox.ac.uk to receive the link
  Richard Overy (Exeter), Discussant: John Darwin (Oxford), Discussant: Rana Mitter (Oxford)
  Modern History Research Seminar

Friday 21 January 2022

• 16:00 - Urban Colonialism in Global History. From Ancient Athens to Modern New York via Early Modern Istanbul
  Professor Jamie Belich (Balliol College, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Book launch: Islam and the Arab Revolutions
  Usaama Al-Azami (St.Antony's College)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 24 January 2022

• 16:00 - How 'Dynasty' Became a Modern Global Concept: Intellectual Histories of Sovereignty and Property
  Dr Milinda Banerjee (University of St Andrews)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Tuesday 25 January 2022

• 13:00 - A spectacular fall: Moncure Conway’s Civil War
  Frank Cirillo (Bonn)
  American History Research Seminar
• 14:00 - Researching South Asia: Bureaucracy
  Yamini Aiyar (CPR, Delhi), Maira Hayat (Notre Dame), Zehra Hashmi (Brown University), Prof Akshay Mangla (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - UK-EU Relations two years after Brexit
  Online Zoom Webinar
  Charles Grant (Centre for European Reform), Jana Puglierin (European Council on Foreign Relations), Georgina Wright (Institut Montaigne)
  European Studies Seminar

Wednesday 26 January 2022

• 15:00 - Social Cohesion as a Humanitarian Objective?
  Cory Rodgers (Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures
• 15:00 - Oxford Political Thought Seminar - Religion
  Madawi al-Rasheed (LSE), Pascal Menoret (Brandeis University)
  Contemporary Islamic Studies Programme
• 17:00 - Typologies of Resistance: a global approach to anticolonial rebellion in the First World War
  Jonathan Krause (Oxford)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 27 January 2022

• 17:00 - Vernacular Discourses of Gender Equality in the Postwar British Working Class
  Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite (UCL), Natalie Thomlinson (Reading)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Panel Discussion: "Towards COP27: moving forwards after COP26" (Online Only)
  Prof Myles Allen (School of Geography and the Environment), Professor Benito Müller (Oxford Climate Policy), Dr Cécile Girardin (Nature Based Solutions Initiative), Dr Nicola Ranger (Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment), Dr Steve Smith (Executive Director, Oxford Net Zero)
  Oxford Martin School Series: Post COP26: successes, lessons learnt & what do we need to do now?
• 18:00 - The Challenges of Writing a Biography of Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  Please note this seminar is at 18:00 (GMT)
  Ellen DuBois (UCLA)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 19:00 - Lobbying For Justice In Syria - Oxford Syria Society Talk with Ibrahim Olabi
  Ibrahim Olabi (Guernica 37)

Friday 28 January 2022

• 16:00 - The Problem of Legal Pluralism in the Eighteenth-Century British Empire
  Dr Hunter Harris (Nuffield College, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The Fate of Colonial Elites in Post-Colonial Regimes: Evidence from the 1952 Egyptian Revolution
  Dr Neil Ketchley (Associate Professor in Politics, St Antony’s College)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 31 January 2022

• 16:00 - "Downward Equalization”: A Gandhian Inversion of Dignity and Rights-Claims
  Professor Manu Samnotra (University of South Florida)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Tuesday 1 February 2022

• 13:00 - Tacky’s Revolt: the story of an Atlantic slave war
  Vincent Brown (Harvard)
  American History Research Seminar
• 14:00 - Researching South Asia: Animals
  Naisargi Dave (Toronto), Radhika Govindrajan (Washington), Muhammad Kavesh (Toronto), Dolly Kikon (Melbourne), Ambika Aiyadurai (IIT, Gandhinagar)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - German Foreign Policy under Chancellor Scholz: What does it mean for the new German Government?
  Online Zoom Webinar
  Dr Franziska Brantner (MP Germany, Green Party), Alexander Graf Lambsdorff (MP Germany, Free Democratic Party)
  European Studies Seminar

Wednesday 2 February 2022

• 15:00 - Journeys towards Reconciliation: the JRS Experience
  Danielle Velle (JRS International), Diana Rueda (JRS International)
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures
• 17:00 - Informal Unions in MENASA: A New Form of Cohabitation?
  Janet Afary (Mellichamp Chair, Professor of Religious Studies, University of California Santa Barbara), Roger Friedland (Dept of Sociology, University of California Santa Barbara)
  MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars
• 17:00 - What's in a name? The classical Greek and Jewish diasporas and implications for the present
  Online webinar
  Prof Robin Cohen (University of Oxford), Manolis Pratsinakis (Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS))
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)

Thursday 3 February 2022

• 17:00 - Replacing Europe? The Importance of India, Violence and Global Political Thought
  Please note this seminar has moved online - please register at the link below
  Shruti Kapila (Cambridge)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - What would a sustainable economy look like?
  Professor Sir Dieter Helm (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Martin School Series: Post COP26: successes, lessons learnt & what do we need to do now?
• 18:00 - Gender History in U.S. Courts: Same-sex Marriage, Abortion, Transgender Rights
  Please note this seminar is at 18:00 (GMT)
  Nancy Cott (Harvard)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].

Friday 4 February 2022

• 16:00 - The most illuminating thing I have ever seen’: Photography, Violence and the Bud Dajo Massacre of 1906
  Dr Kim Wagner (QMUL)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - HYBRID EVENT - The Career and Communities of Zaynab Fawwaz: Feminist Thinking in Fin-de-siècle Egypt
  Dr Marilyn Booth (Magdalen College, Oxford)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 7 February 2022

• 16:00 - A Debatable Empire
  Dr Mishka Sinha (St John's, Oxford)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 16:00 - Multidimensional Poverty and Children in Punjab, Pakistan
  Rizwan ul Haq (University of Oxford)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty

Tuesday 8 February 2022

• 13:00 - “The American invasion of our theatre”: Black cultural archives, African American theatre makers and surveillance in 1940s London
  Kate Dossett (Leeds)
  American History Research Seminar
• 14:00 - Researching South Asia: Climate Change
  Various Speakers
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 20:30 - Human Rights at Sea: Problems and Prospects
  Professor Steven Haines
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 9 February 2022

• 15:00 - “They treat us as if we are of no importance”: Experiences of displacement, (in)justice and reconciliation across disaster, epidemic and war in Sierra Leone
  Dr Mohamed Sesay (York University, Canada), Professor Megan Bradley (McGill University)
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures
• 15:00 - Oxford Political Thought Seminar - Sovereignty
  Neguin Yavari (University of Leipzig), Samy Ayoub (University of Texas-Austin)
  Contemporary Islamic Studies Programme
• 17:00 - The First World War and the making of the modern Mediterranean
  Heather Jones (UCL)
  History of War Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Reforms that changed Greece: Crisis and beyond
  Online Zoom Webinar
  Jens Bastian (ELIAMEP), Calliope Spanou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), Michael Mitsopoulos (Hellenic Federation of Business)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
• 17:00 - Abrahamic Interpretations of the Sacrifice of Abraham’s Son
  Dr Edward Kessler MBE (Founder-President of the Woolf Institute, University of Cambridge)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 10 February 2022

• 17:00 - Paper States: Life Between Empire and International Order, 1815-1937
  Anna Ross (Warwick)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 18:00 - Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement
  Please note this talk will take place at 18:00 (GMT)
  Katherine Marino (UCLA)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].

Friday 11 February 2022

• 16:00 - International Law and War in the White British Empire: Ireland and South Africa 1899-1921
  Dr Lia Brazil (Nuffield College, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - HYBRID EVENT - Book Launch: Uncoupling Language and Religion: An Exploration into the Margins of Turkish Literature
  Laurent Mignon (St. Antony's College)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
• 19:00 - The Twitter War for Nagorno-Karabakh
  Major Bruce Gudmunsson
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Monday 14 February 2022

• 16:00 - Waiting for the People: Anticolonialism and the Idea of Democracy in India
  Dr Nazmul Sultan (University of Cambridge)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 16:00 - Extending Multidimensional Poverty Identification. From Additive Weights to Minimal Bundles
  Sam Jones (UNU-WIDER)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 16:15 - Religion and World Politics: Presence, Absence or Resurgence?
  This event is open to members of the University only; spaces are limited.
  Ali Al Youha (DPIR, University of Oxford)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series

Tuesday 15 February 2022

• 16:00 - The Enlightenment and the Value(s) of Land Ownership
  Dr Dafydd Mills Daniel
  Contestations in Land and Agriculture: Historical and Geopolitical Case-Studies
• 17:00 - #Philosophy #Europe
  Hybrid event. To attend in person, please register via Eventbrite: https://philosophy-history.eventbrite.co.uk Or register via Zoom for online attendance: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_nQJNfVTZQ6WRef_GuS7zvA
  Professor Simon Glendinning (LSE)
• 17:00 - Winant Lecture in American Government: The politics of American Islamophobia
  Nazita Lajevardi (Michigan State University)
  American History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The Politics of American Islamophobia
  Nazita Lajevardi (Michigan State University)
• 20:30 - Machine Intelligence and the Changing Keys to Power
  Lt Col Al Brown (Visting Fellow Oxford University and CCW)
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 16 February 2022

• 15:00 - Learning in Segregation as Syrian Refugee Children in Jordan
  Dr Hiba Salem (University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures
• 17:00 - Venizelos: Crete to Athens, Great War and schism, Peace Conference and after
  Hybrid event. To attend in person, please register via Eventbrite: https://venizelos-crete-to-athens.eventbrite.co.uk To join online, please register via Zoom.
  Michael Llewellyn-Smith (St Antony's College), Marilena (Anastasopoulou), Helen Katsiadakis (Academy of Athens), Othon Anastasakis (SEESOX, St Antony's College, Oxford)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
• 17:00 - A New Cold War in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)?
  Dr Guy Burton (Adjunct Professor, Brussels School of Governance), Dr Christopher M. Davidson (Associate fellow, RUSI), Dr Diana Galeeva (Academic Visitor to St. Antony’s College, Oxford University), Dr Michael Willis (St. Antony's College, Oxford University)

Thursday 17 February 2022

• 17:00 - Agents of which state? Danish Journalists in British Exile, 1940-1945
  Emil Seidenfaden (Copenhagen and Oxford)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 18:00 - Methodological Praxis: A Textbook on Black Women’s History
  Please note this talk will take place at 18:00 (GMT)
  Daina Ramey Berry (UT Austin)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 19:00 - Women's Rights in Revolution and War: Perspectives from Syria - Oxford Syria Society Event
  Maria Alabdeh (Women Now for Development), Ameenah Sawwan

Friday 18 February 2022

• 16:00 - A Zambian not at Bandung and the uses of global biography
  **THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED**
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Ismay Milford (Edinburgh)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - HYBRID EVENT - All Jihad Is Local: the Micro-Politics of Militant Islamism in 1980s Lebanon and Beyond
  Raphael Lefevre (St.Antony's College)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Climate Change, Agrarian Transformation, and the Origins of COVID-19
  Dr Li Zhang (University of California, Irvine)
  Climate Change and the Challenges of Development

Monday 21 February 2022

• 16:00 - The Infrastructure of Rumor: Development and Democracy in a Postcolony
  Professor Nusrat S. Chowdhury (Amherst College)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 16:00 - Profiling gendered multidimensional poverty and inequality in post-apartheid South Africa
  Kehinde O. Omotoso
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty

Tuesday 22 February 2022

• 13:00 - The birth of neoliberal anti-environmentalism in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s
  Niklas Olsen (University of Copenhagen)
  American History Research Seminar
• 14:00 - Joint African Studies/South Asian Centre Seminar: Queer Politics
  Dr Adriaan Van Klinken (University of Leeds), Erick Keizi (Cosmopolitan Affirming Community, Nairobi)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Adversariality and the 'Unfixity' of Land in the Gujarat Special Economic Zone
  Professor Nikita Sud (University of Oxford)
  Contestations in Land and Agriculture: Historical and Geopolitical Case-Studies
• 16:00 - China-India Relations and the Geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific
  Commodore Abhay Kumar Singh
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar
• 17:00 - Democracy in Europe: What if Hungary’s election is not free and fair?
  This is a Zoom webinar
  Kim Lane Scheppele (Princeton University), Marta Pardavi (Hungarian Helsinki Committee), Marcin Walecki (University of Oxford)
  European Studies Seminar

Wednesday 23 February 2022

• 15:00 - Exposure to Violence and the Prospects for Reconciliation: Evidence from Syria and Iraq
  Professor Kristin Fabbe (Harvard Business School)
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures
• 15:00 - Oxford Political Thought Seminar - Violence
  Murad Idris (University of Michigan), Nesrine Badawi (American University in Cairo)
  Contemporary Islamic Studies Programme
• 17:00 - Threatened motherhood in the Israeli welfare state: The discourse and the practice behind the disqualification of disadvantaged women's motherhood
  Prof. Esther Hertzog (Social Anthropologist, Zefat Academic College)
  MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars
• 17:00 - Managing Habsburg battlefield medicine during the Ottoman wars, 1717-1792
  Sabine Jesner (Graz)
  History of War Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Bosnia and Herzegovina: Has the international community lost interest?
  This is a Zoom webinar
  Jelena Dzankic (European University Institute, Florence), Jasmin Hasic (Humanity in Action (BiH)), Nebojsa Vladisavljevic (University of Belgrade)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
• 17:00 - Reflections on the Arab Spring Ten Years On
  Sir Geoffrey Adams KCMG (British Ambassador to Egypt (2018-2021))
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 24 February 2022

• 17:00 - Micro-histories of violence and fear. The rise of Italian Fascism
  John Foot (Bristol)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Panel Discussion: 'Fleshing out a future COP' (Online only)
  Dr Tara Garnett (Director, TABLE), Dan Blaustein-Rejto (Breakthrough Institute), Dr Helena Wright (FAIRR Initiative (Farm, Animal, Investment, Risk and Return)), Dr Pablo Manzano (Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3))
  Oxford Martin School Series: Post COP26: successes, lessons learnt & what do we need to do now?
• 17:00 - (Film showing) 'Lebanon. Explosion of Anger' film by Krzysztof Dzięciołowski
  Michael Willis (St. Antony's College), Raphaël Lefèvre (Department of Politics and International Relations), Krzysztof Dzięciołowski
• 18:00 - Riots, Rights, and Respectability: Black Women and the Courts in the Aftermath of the 1863 New York City Draft Riots
  Please note this talk will take place at 18:00 (GMT)
  Marissa Jenrich (UCLA)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].

Friday 25 February 2022

• 16:00 - Modes of Historical Analysis: Digital Approaches to Global and Imperial History
  Professor James Smithies (KCL)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - HYBRID EVENT - The Global Merchants: The Enterprise and Extravagance of the Sassoon Dynasty
  Joseph Sassoon (Director of the Centre for Contemporary Arab Studies and Professor of History and Political Economy at Georgetown University)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Indian farmers' struggle and climate change: Defending small farming against agro-business takeover
  This event has been cancelled - we hope to reschedule for Trinity Term.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Professor Pritam Singh (Oxford Brookes University)
  Climate Change and the Challenges of Development

Monday 28 February 2022

• 16:00 - B.R. Ambedkar's Sociophilia and Other Anti-Caste Sciences
  Professor J. Daniel Elam (University of Hong Kong)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 16:00 - Multidimensional Poverty in Brazil in the Early 21st Century. Evidence from the Demographic Census
  Adriana Stankiewicz Serra (University of Campinas)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 17:30 - Devon Matthews of LGBT+ refugee rights charity Rainbow Railroad, in conversation
  Devon Matthews (Rainbow Railroad)
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures

Tuesday 1 March 2022

• 13:00 - Selling the enemy’s atrocity: the “Vietnam Syndrome” and popular understandings of American warfare after the Cold War
  Sandra Scanlon (University College Dublin)
  American History Research Seminar
• 14:00 - Joint African Studies/South Asian Centre Seminar: Covid-19
  Shaeera Kalla (C19 Peoples’ Coalition, South Africa), Tarangini Sriraman (Goldsmiths), Jeevan Baniya (Social Science Baha, Nepal)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Medieval Rationalities and Modern Moralities of Land Use
  Dr Amanda Power (University of Oxford)
  Contestations in Land and Agriculture: Historical and Geopolitical Case-Studies
• 17:00 - Socialism Goes Global: The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the Age of Decolonisation
  Online Zoom webinar
  Paul Betts (St Antony's College, University of Oxford), James Mark (University of Exeter)
  European Studies Seminar
• 17:00 - Ukraine: What's at stake?
  Professor Harold Koh (Yale Law School), Professor Dapo Akande (Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford), Tom Simpson (Blavatnik School of Government), Professor Ngaire Woods (Dean, Blavatnik School of Government)
• 20:30 - Major Ideas and Ideologies in Far Right Movements
  Professor Peter Neumann
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 2 March 2022

• 12:30 - What does China need to do to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060?
  Dr Thomas Hale (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford), Professor Fu Jun (Peking University)
• 15:00 - Reconciliation as Both Healing and Prevention: Mending Ruptures within the Self and between Generations
  Dr Katrien Hertog (IAHV), Professor Elias Lopez (Comillas Pontifical University)
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures
• 17:00 - Smallpox, Polio, and Muslim "Resistance": reconsidering trust in global health
  Professor Sanjoy Bhattacharya (York)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 3 March 2022

• 10:00 - Global and Imperial History graduate student research presentations
  Various Speakers
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 13:00 - A healthy bath: early modern notions of the body, climate and the healing powers of the sauna
  Charlotta Forss (Stockholm)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 17:00 - Leveraging Authority via the Principle of Publicness: the Advocacy of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom at the League of Nations on the Minorities Question
  Molly Cochran (Oxford Brookes)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Modelling climate change: predicting the future
  Professor Tim Palmer (University of Oxford), Professor Sir Charles Godfray (Director, Oxford Martin School)
  Oxford Martin School Series: Post COP26: successes, lessons learnt & what do we need to do now?
• 17:00 - Leaving No One Behind in Water and Sanitation: Can we measure it?
  Dr Sarah Dickin (Research Fellow and Team Lead for Sanitation and Health at the Stockholm Environment Institute)
• 17:00 - The UK government approach to crisis management
  This event is open to members of the University only. Numbers are limited and admission will be on a first come, first served basis.
  David Munroe (UK Cabinet Office)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series

Friday 4 March 2022

• 10:00 - Global and Imperial History graduate student research presentations
  Various Speakers
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - HYBRID EVENT - Panel Discussion – The Future of Syria
  Ms Waad Alkhatib (Film Maker, For Sama)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 7 March 2022

• 14:00 - Youth work, prosocial behaviour, and micro-foundation of working-class solidarity in China
  Ngai Pun (Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University)
  Oxford Development Studies Annual Lectures
• 16:00 - Reflections on Gandhi’s Anti-Modernism
  Professor Akeel Bilgrami (Columbia University)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 16:00 - Measuring Vulnerability to Multidimensional Poverty with Bayesian Network Classifiers
  Professor Mauricio Gallardo (Universidad Católica del Norte)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 16:15 - Humanitarian Diplomacy: What it is and how it works
  Dr Hugo Slim (Oxford)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series

Tuesday 8 March 2022

• 12:30 - Finding early modern women’s work
  Professor Laura Gowing (KCL)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 13:00 - #Charlottesville: media events and the long struggle against White supremacy
  Aniko Bodroghkozy (Virginia)
  American History Research Seminar
• 14:00 - Joint African Studies/South Asian Centre Seminar: Corruption
  Rui Verde and Rafael Marques (Oxford and Maka Angola), Malini Ranganathan (American University)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 16:00 - An Agrarian Logic: what it is and what it means for Political Economies
  Professor Norman Wirzba (Duke University)
  Contestations in Land and Agriculture: Historical and Geopolitical Case-Studies
• 17:00 - Techlash: How big tech corporations exercise business power and escape democratic control
  Hybrid event. To attend in person please register via Eventbrite: https://techlash.eventbrite.co.uk For online participation, register via Zoom.
  Aidan Regan (Associate Professor, University College Dublin)
  European Studies Seminar
• 20:30 - Decentring EU Foreign Policy
  Dr Sarah Wolff
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 9 March 2022

• 15:00 - Oxford Political Thought Seminar - Law
  Mohammad Fadel (University of Toronto)
  Contemporary Islamic Studies Programme
• 15:00 - Land Tenure Registration in Situations of Protracted Displacement: Reconciling or Dividing?
  Prof Mathijs van Leeuwen (Radboud University)
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures
• 17:00 - Turkey Under Erdogan: How a Country Turned from Democracy and the West
  Hybrid event. To attend in person, please register via Eventbrite: https://turkey-under-erdogan.eventbrite.co.uk To attend online, please register via Zoom.
  Dr Dimitar Bechev (University of Oxford), Mehmet Karli (SEESOX, St Antony's College, Oxford)
• 17:00 - Daulat, Saltanat and the Sultan in the Mughal and Ottoman Worlds
  Dr Gagan Sood (Department of International History, LSE)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 10 March 2022

• 13:00 - Student Presentations
  Various Speakers
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 13:00 - CGIS Queer History Lunchtime Talk
  Dr Emily Rutherford (Merton College, Oxford), Hannah Blackmore (Jesus College, Oxford)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 17:00 - The invention of Marxism, 1878-1905
  Christina Morina (Bielefeld)
  Modern History Research Seminar

Friday 11 March 2022

• 16:00 - Global and Imperial History graduate student research presentations
  Various Speakers
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - HYBRID EVENT - Yemen’s Enduring Crisis
  TBA
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
• 17:00 - How to Overcome Global Crises: Climate Change and Pandemics
  Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (Nelson Mandela Fellow)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Monday 14 March 2022

• 09:30 - OxPeace 3 Day Training Workshop in Mediation and Negotiation
  Martin Albani (European External Action Service), Valentin Ade (The Negotiation Studio)
  OxPeace Events

Tuesday 15 March 2022

• 17:15 - Ukraine: the implications
  Cathryn Costello (St Antony's College), Dr Målfrid Braut-Hegghammer (University of Oslo), Professor Dapo Akande (Faculty of Law, University of Oxford), Tom Simpson (Blavatnik School of Government), Professor Ngaire Woods (Dean, Blavatnik School of Government), Dr Carol Leonard (St Antony's College, Oxford)

Thursday 17 March 2022

• 17:00 - 'What role for science in achieving Net Zero?' with Prof Paul Monks
  Professor Paul Monks (Chief Scientific Adviser, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy)
  Oxford Martin School Series: Post COP26: successes, lessons learnt & what do we need to do now?

Monday 21 March 2022

• 17:00 - How will this end? The military situation in Ukraine and the political implications
  Tom Simpson (Blavatnik School of Government)

Tuesday 22 March 2022

• 12:00 - What have we learned tracking every COVID-19 policy for the last two years?
  Dr Thomas Hale (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford), Dr Anna Petherick (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford), Toby Phillips (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford)

Wednesday 23 March 2022

• 13:00 - Supporting the East African Off-grid Energy Industry post COVID-19
  Aoife Brophy Haney (Saïd Business School, University of Oxford), Tonny Kukeera (Smith School of Enterprise and Environment, University of Oxford)

Thursday 24 March 2022

• 17:00 - Ukraine: the economic impact
  Professor Ngaire Woods (Dean, Blavatnik School of Government), Beata Javorcik (Chief Economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development), Dan Baer (Europe Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace), Professor Stefan Dercon (Blavatnik School of Government)

Monday 28 March 2022

• 16:00 - Whose vaccine is it anyway? Category prioritisation and gender in the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine
  TBA

Thursday 31 March 2022

• 09:00 - Visions of Life Symposium: Utopian Dreams, Revolutionary Filmmaking and the Politics of the Film Archive in Africa
  Various Speakers

Monday 4 April 2022

• 19:30 - Orthodox political theology between national identity and empire
  Marietta van der Tol (Blavatnik School of Government), Prof. Dr. Cyril Hovorun, Dr Jenny Leith, Dr Katharina Kunter, Dr Petr Kratochvíl, Revd Dr William Lamb (University of Oxford)

Monday 25 April 2022

• 16:00 - Justice Beyond Rights
  Dr Humeira Iqtidar (King's College London)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Tuesday 26 April 2022

• 14:00 - Fashioning Subjects: From Farmer, to Soldier, to Patriot
  Thiruni Kelegama (Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Saving a dissident with diplomacy and international law
  Professor Harold Koh (Yale Law School)
• 20:30 - 30th Anniversary of the Collapse of the USSR: the Rapid Demise and Long-term Consequences
  Kataryna Wolczuk (University of Birmingham)
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 27 April 2022

• 15:00 - Oxford Political Thought Seminar Series - Seminar 1 - EMPIRE
  Janet O’Brien, The Courtauld, Azfar Moin, University of Texas-Austin
• 16:00 - Governing Planetary Health in an Unequal World
  Anna-Katharina Hornidge (Director of the German Development Institute and member of the German Government of Global Change (WBGU)), Nicole de Paula (Senior SDGs Expert at FAO of the UN & Founder of the Women Leaders for Planetary Health)
  Climate Change and the Challenges of Development
• 17:00 - Islam and the Strategic Global Rivalry over Energy: Illustrations from Afghanistan
  Dr Mohammad Talib (OCIS)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 28 April 2022

• 12:00 - Dust and Smoke: Air Pollution and Colonial Urbanism in India
  Prof Awadhendra Sharan (Centre for the Study of Developing Societies)
  Thinking Through Toxicity
• 14:00 - Europe in a Changing World: 13th Annual Dahrendorf Colloquium
  Various Speakers
  Dahrendorf Programme - events
• 17:30 - Gambling on Development: Why some countries lose and others win
  Professor Stefan Dercon (Blavatnik School of Government), Dr Kate Orkin (Blavatnik School of Government)
• 18:00 - Gender and Representations in the Early Modern Hispanic World, 16th-18th Centuries
  Charlene Villasenor Black (Oxford)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].

Friday 29 April 2022

• 17:00 - BOOK LAUNCH 'Algiers’ lynching, 1956. A social history of colonial racism'
  Andrea Brazzoduro (MFO/Turin), James McDougall (Trinity)
• 17:00 - 'Dreams and Reflections: A Chinese Artist's Discovery of Europe', the 13th Annual Dahrendorf Lecture
  Xiaolu Guo (Novelist and Filmmaker), Chair: Timothy Garton Ash (St Antony's, Oxford)
  Dahrendorf Programme - events

Monday 2 May 2022

• 16:00 - Seeing the People in Mughal India
  Professor Abhishek Kaicker (UC Berkeley)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 17:00 - Catholic reason of state and the politics of necessity in the Spanish monarchy (c. 1590-1650)
  Lisa Kattenberg (University of Amsterdam)

Tuesday 3 May 2022

• 14:00 - ‘British Bolé Baap Re Baap’ - World War II and the Prospect of ‘Quit India’ in Bengal: ‘War’ Rumours and ‘Revolutionary’ Parties
  Anwesha Roy (Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The Bride: An Illustrated History of Palestine, 1850-1948
  Roger Hardy (Former Middle East analyst with the BBC World Service)
• 17:00 - Exhibition Launch - Evoking the Horse: Indigenous Artists of the North American Plains
  Natalie Hill (Oxford)
  Rothermere American Institute Events
• 20:30 - Psycho-Social Perspectives Missing from Discussions about the War on Ukraine
  Dr Sarah Wolff
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 4 May 2022

• 17:00 - The king’s war at sea: armees and maritime service in fourteenth-century England
  This talk is via Zoom and registration is required
  Andrew Ayton (Keele)
  History of War Seminar Series
• 18:00 - Dinah Rose in conversation with William Hague (in person and online)
  Lord William Hague, Dinah Rose (University of Oxford)

Thursday 5 May 2022

• 16:00 - Capable Women, Incapable States: Negotiating Violence and Rights in India
  Poulami Roychowdhury (Assistant Professor, McGill University), Prof Akshay Mangla (University of Oxford), Aradhana CV (University of Oxford)
  Thinking Through Toxicity
• 17:00 - Prostitution and Subjectivity in Late Medieval Germany
  Jamie Page (University of Lincoln)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].

Friday 6 May 2022

• 13:00 - Doing History from the Inside: a workshop with Allida Black
  Allida Black (Hillary Rodham Clinton’s historian)
  Rothermere American Institute Events

Monday 9 May 2022

• 16:00 - Queer Azaadi and the origins of Indian homonationalism in Kashmir
  Anish Gawande (University of Oxford)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 17:00 - 2022 Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics: Ethics and Artificial Intelligence (Lecture 1/3)
  These lectures may be attended in-person (booking via Bookwhen) or online (register in advance on Zoom). Booking/registration details for each lecture are on our website.
  Professor Peter Railton (Michigan)
  2022 Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics
• 17:00 - Book presentation - The Ethics of Exile: A Political Theory of Diaspora
  Dr Ashwini Vasanthakumar (Queen’s Law School), Professor Matthew J Gibney (Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford), Professor Cathryn Costello (Hertie School and University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures
• 18:30 - Fawzia Koofi: Changing Geopolitical Landscapes, Afghanistan's Future Prospects and the struggle for Human and Female Rights
  Fawzia Koofi

Tuesday 10 May 2022

• 14:00 - ‘Technology at the Wheel’: Computers, Data and Tech-Utopianisms in the Political Imagination of 1980s India
  Amogh Dhar Sharma (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 20:30 - Is The Russian Army Rotten?
  Shashank Joshi (The Economist)
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 11 May 2022

• 09:30 - Lei Zhang Special Lecture 2022
  Lei Zheng (Envision Group)
• 14:00 - HYBRID EVENT - The Right to Move: Gender and Space in Iranian Cinema
  Various Speakers
• 17:00 - Islam and Child Rights: The Role of Religion in the Development of the Law
  Justice Imman Ali (Supreme Court of Bangladesh, Appellate Division)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Richard Nixon’s Liberal Legacy
  John R Price (Former Special Assistant for Urban Affairs to President Nixon), Chair: Professor Adam Smith (Rothermere American Institute, Oxford)
  Rothermere American Institute Events

Thursday 12 May 2022

• 09:30 - Hygiene, Health, Pleasure, and Propriety: A Workshop on the History of Bathing
  This is the first of two events happening today
  Charlotta Forss (Stockholm)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 18:00 - Gender and the Body: Native Women in the Archives of Colonial Mexico
  This is the second of two events happening today
  Lisa Sousa (Occidental College)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].

Monday 16 May 2022

• 16:00 - Contestations in Land & Agriculture: New Perspectives in Theology and Ethics
  Various Speakers
• 16:00 - Freedom Between Order and Chaos: Reading a Political Satire From India
  Professor Jyotirmaya Sharma (University of Hyderabad)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 16:30 - Book launch - Altar Call in Europe: Billy Graham, Mass Evangelism, and the Cold-War West
  Dr Uta Balbier (St Anne's College, Oxford), Professor Jane Shaw (Harris Manchester College, Oxford), Professor Stephen Tuck (Pembroke College, Oxford), Dr Stephen Tuffnell (St Peter's College, Oxford), Chair: Professor Adam Smith (Rothermere American Institute, Oxford)
  Rothermere American Institute Events
• 17:00 - 2022 Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics: Ethics and Artificial Intelligence (Lecture 2/3)
  These lectures may be attended in-person (booking via Bookwhen) or online (register in advance on Zoom). Booking/registration details for each lecture are on our website.
  Professor Peter Railton (Michigan)
  2022 Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics
• 17:00 - How will ending poverty impact climate change? A well-being centred approach to energy transitions
  Narasimha D Rao will speak in person at the Oxford Martin School. To attend online, please sign up via the link below.
  Narasimha D Rao (Yale University)
  Climate Change and the Challenges of Development
• 17:30 - Governing the climate crisis: How should future leaders prepare?
  Dr Thomas Hale (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford), Laurie Laybourn-Langton (Institute for Public Policy Research), Nina Möger Bengtsson (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford), Tessa Vincent (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford)

Tuesday 17 May 2022

• 10:30 - The State of Play: The Biden Administration at Midterm
  Various Speakers
  Rothermere American Institute Events
• 14:00 - The Cosmopolitan Standard of Civilization: A Critical Sociology of Elite Belonging among Indian Diplomats
  Dr Kira Huju (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The future of European security after the war in Ukraine
  ESC and SEESOX Annual lecture
  The Rt. Hon. Lord Robertson of Port Ellen KT, GCMG, hon FRSE, PC (Former NATO Secretary General) (House of Lords)
• 17:15 - Massada lecture: "Jews as a Nation are Exterminated:" Holocaust Through the Eyes of Soviet Intelligence, 1939-1945
  Yaacov Falkov (Tel Aviv University)
• 20:30 - American Grand Strategy After Ukraine
  Dr Peter Feaver
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 18 May 2022

• 17:00 - Truth, Knowledge, and Power in Islam Before the Nineteenth Century: A Heuristic Perspective on the Separation of Powers and the Rule of Law
  Professor Wael Hallaq (Columbia University)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - The EU as a State-builder in International Affairs: The Case of Kosovo
  Hybrid seminar: In person and online
  Labinot Greiçevci (Research Institute of Development and European Affairs (RIDEA)), Belina Budini (St Antony's College, Oxford)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
• 17:15 - Russian Invasion and the Struggle for Ukrainian Identity - Eastern Galicia, 1914
  Alexander Watson (Goldsmiths)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 19 May 2022

• 15:00 - Surviving Southampton: African American Women and Resistance in Nat Turner's Community
  Vanessa Holden (University of Kentucky)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 17:00 - Webinar: Dignity in street-level bureaucracies: beyond reason, balance and pragmatism (followed by Q&A)
  Professor Tony Evans (Royal Holloway), Chair: Dr Jonathan Patterson (St Edmund Hall, Oxford)
  Human Dignity and Bureaucracy Seminars

Friday 20 May 2022

• 17:00 - Should we focus on making soy supply chains more transparent and sustainable? A political ecology critique of neo-Malthusianism and Eco-Modernization Theory
  Please register via the booking url below to receive joining instructions – in your booking confirmation email, click on “View online event” for the Zoom link and passcode.
  Dr. Gustavo de L. T. Oliveira (University of California, Irvine)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests
• 17:00 - The Dacre Lecture 2022 - ‘Stalin’s War on Ukraine and Putin’s War on Ukraine: What we Know Now, and Why it Matters’
  Anne Applebaum

Monday 23 May 2022

• 16:00 - Ma'na and War
  Dr James Caron (SOAS University of London)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 17:00 - 2022 Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics: Ethics and Artificial Intelligence (Lecture 3/3)
  These lectures may be attended in-person (booking via Bookwhen) or online (register in advance on Zoom). Booking/registration details for each lecture are on our website.
  Professor Peter Railton (Michigan)
  2022 Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics

Tuesday 24 May 2022

• 12:30 - A Workshop on Legal Sources and Late Medieval Sexuality
  Please note this workshop is in person
  Sara McDougall (City University of New York)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 15:30 - Political Entrepreneurship in the Digital World: What it is and how it works
  Kristina Lunz (Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series
• 17:00 - The Ambiguities of Kurdish “Nationalism”
  Dr. Djene Rhys Bajalan
• 17:00 - The Annual Jan-Georg Deutsch Debate - Motion: The myth is more fundamental than the fact in collective memory
  Proponent: Dr Moritz Mihatsch (The British University in Egypt), Opponent: Dr Rouven Kunstmann (University of Erfurt)
  Oxford Transnational and Global History Seminar
• 17:00 - Is American democracy in danger? How US politics turned tribal and what it means for the future
  Professor James Morone (Brown University)
• 20:30 - Russkiy Mir Expansionism, Ukraine's Military Successes, and Russian Failures
  Aurimas Navys
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 25 May 2022

• 10:00 - Asylum after the Act | A panel discussion
  Zoe Bantleman (Immigration Law Practitioners' Association), Behrouz Boochani (UNSW), Lawrence Bottinick (UNHCR London), Baroness Shami Chakrabarti (House of Lords)
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures
• 15:00 - Oxford Political Thought Seminar Series - Seminar 2 - ARAB SPRING
  Maria Malmström, Lund University, Usaama al-Azami, University of Oxford
• 17:00 - Caliph, Sultan and Scholar: The Political Career of Fakhr al-Din al-Razi (d. 1210)
  Dr Ayman Shihadeh (SOAS)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Bordering and Ordering among Refugees from Burma/Myanmar | Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture 2022
  Professor Kirsten McConnachie (University of East Anglia)
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures
• 17:00 - Caliph, Sultan, and Scholar: The Political Career of Fakhr-al-Din al-Razi (d. 1210)
  Dr Ayman Shihadeh (SOAS)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies - Trinity Term Seminars
• 18:30 - Governor Ridwan Kamil of West Java: Political leadership for transforming local government
  Governor Ridwan Kamil (Government of West Java, Indonesia), Dr Julien Labonne (Blavatnik School of Government)

Thursday 26 May 2022

• 18:00 - The politics of service delivery: The case of education
  Jaime Saavedra (World Bank), Ruth Kagia (Office of the President of Kenya), Sardar Ali Shah (Minister for Education, Culture, Tourism, Antiquities and Archives, Government of Sindh, Pakistan)

Monday 30 May 2022

• 16:00 - POSTPONED - The Poetics of Hindutva
  Professor Janaki Bakhle (UC Berkeley)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Tuesday 31 May 2022

• 17:00 - Maintaining the Stability of the German Financial System
  Valerie Herzberg (Deutsche Bundesbank)

Wednesday 1 June 2022

• 14:00 - A Match Made in Heaven: Love and Piety in Iranian Spousal Selection
  Dr. Ramina Sotoudeh, Nuffield College, University of Oxford
  MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars
• 16:00 - The UN at a Crossroads: The Ukrainian War and the Challenge of Multilateral Diplomacy
  Ambassador Rytis Paulauskas (Permanent Representative of the Republic of Lithuania to the United Nations), Richard Gowan (UN director, International Crisis Group)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series
• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Mr Simon Collis (Former British Ambassador to Saudi Arabia (2015-20))
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Getting older: Demographic challenges in South East Europe
  Hybrid seminar - In person and online
  Arjan Gjonça (LSE), Branimir Jovanovic (Institute for International Economic Studies, Vienna), Vladimir Nikitovic (Institute of Social Sciences, Belgrade), Dijana Spasenoska (Department of Social Policy, LSE)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
• 17:00 - Provost's Talk with Journalist and Author David Patrikarakos
  David Patrikarakos
• 17:15 - International Law and Wars of Liberation: Rethinking Human Rights at the End of Empire
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Andrew Thompson (Oxford)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 2 June 2022

• 18:00 - Marriage Contestations in Colonial Nigeria
  Nwando Achebe (Michigan State University)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].

Friday 3 June 2022

• 17:00 - The Potential Impact of European Aids on National Curriculum in Emerging Entities Under and Post-Conflicts: Palestine As a Case
  Haya Fayyad Abu Hussein (Birzeit University/ Palestine)

Monday 6 June 2022

• 16:00 - Climate and Environmental Justice Matters: Towards connected knowledge and policy in a development pluriverse
  This is a hybrid event; it will take place in person and online via Zoom. To attend via Zoom, please register at the url below.
  Professor Melissa Leach (Director, Institute of Development Studies)
  Climate Change and the Challenges of Development
• 16:00 - Pan-Nationalist Notions of Rights, Indian Khilafat Movement and the Treaty of Lausanne (1923)
  Professor Cemil Aydin (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 17:00 - The economic impacts of large dams: a comparative analysis of the Nile and Colorado Rivers
  Dr Kevin Wheeler (Senior Research Fellow, Environmental Change Institute), Professor Jim Hall (Oxford Martin Programme on Transboundary Resource Management), Professor Kenneth Strzepek (MIT)
• 17:00 - The Passport as Home: Comfort in Rootlessness
  Hybrid event - please join us online or in person
  Prof Andrei Markovits (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
• 18:30 - Transforming the war drugs
  Dr Annette Idler (Global Security Programme, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 7 June 2022

• 17:00 - Women, Caste, Tribe and Urban Waste: The Physical and Social Toxicity of Shit-Work
  Professor Barbara Harriss-White ((Emeritus Professor of Development Studies, Oxford))
  Thinking Through Toxicity
• 20:30 - UK Space Command, A Year On
  Air Vice-Marshal Paul Godfrey (UK Space Command)
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 8 June 2022

• 13:00 - Conference ‘Politicizations: Socio-Historical Approaches’
  Please note that you can either attend this seminar on-site at the Maison Française d'Oxford or online. For the in-person event, booking is not required. Register in advance for the online meeting: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUkd-6tqDkrE9VuLGh-_QIvCMEoxnzWhURd
  Various Speakers
• 14:15 - South East Europe in the shadow of the war in Ukraine
  Online webinar
  Various Speakers
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
• 16:00 - 5th Adrian Fernando Memorial Lecture - Afsaneh M. Beschloss
  The lecture will be followed by drinks reception.
  TBA
• 17:00 - The Quest for Reforms of Islamic Systems of Education in Nigeria
  Professor Kabiru Chafe (Ahmadu Bello University)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Book discussion - Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom
  Kathryn Olivarius (Stanford University)
  Rothermere American Institute Events

Thursday 9 June 2022

• 14:00 - Apparently Personal Poetry: A Symposium on Elizabeth Bishop and Biography
  Professor Thomas Travisano, Interviewer: Jonathan Ellis
  Rothermere American Institute Events
• 00:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].

Friday 10 June 2022

• 17:00 - Q&A on Apparently Personal Poetry: A Symposium on Elizabeth Bishop and Biography
  Sally Bayley, Jamie McKendrick
  Rothermere American Institute Events

Monday 13 June 2022

• 16:00 - ‘Jim-Crowed the World Over’: Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay and the Idea of the Global South
  Professor Nico Slate (Carnegie Mellon University)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 17:00 - The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence & the Pillage of an Empire
  TBA
• 17:00 - Free: Coming of Age at the end of History with Lea Ypi
  In person
  Lea Ypi (Department of Government, LSE), Othon Anastasakis (St Antony's College, University of Oxford), Paul Betts (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)

Wednesday 15 June 2022

• 09:45 - Uehiro Mini-Workshop: The Ethics of Behavioural Influence & Discrimination
  Professor Thomas Douglas (Oxford), Dr Gabriel De Marco (Oxford), Professor Lucia Zedner (Oxford), Prof. Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen (Aarhus University)
• 15:00 - Oxford Political Thought Seminar Series - Seminar 3 - RELIGION
  Rushain Abbasi, Stanford University, Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, Northwestern University
• 17:00 - The Reconstruction of the Awliya Domes in Hadramut, Yemen (2019-2021)
  Professor Salma Damluji (American University of Beirut)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:15 - The future is certain, it’s the past that keeps changing’: The change of Soviet propaganda during WWII
  Gerald Mako (Cambridge)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 16 June 2022

• 13:00 - Narrating a History of Amelia Newsham
  Meleisa Ono-George (Oxford)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 17:00 - An Evening with Joy Harjo, 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States
  Joy Harjo
  Rothermere American Institute Events
• 17:00 - *Annual George Antonius Memorial Lecture* - The Enduring Legacy of Oslo
  Diana Buttu (IMEU Communications Director, DAWN Fellow)

Friday 17 June 2022

• 17:00 - The Michael Dillon LGBT+ Lecture: Lord Browne of Madingley
  Lord Brown of Madingley, Helen King QPM, David Isaac CBE

Monday 20 June 2022

• 11:00 - Machine Learning and Economics - Jamboree 2022
  Binta Zahra Diop (University of Oxford), Max Kasy (University of Oxford)
  Economics Research Jamboree

Tuesday 21 June 2022

• 11:00 - Communication and Information
  Michael McMahon (University of Oxford), Daniel Quigley (University of Oxford)
  Economics Research Jamboree

Wednesday 22 June 2022

• 17:00 - CANCELLED - Oxford Political Thought Seminar Series - Seminar 4 - MARXISM
  Fadi Bardawil, Duke University, Nadia Bou Ali, American University of Beirut

Thursday 23 June 2022

• 11:00 - Gender and Family Economics
  Abi Adams-Prassl (University of Oxford), Hamish Low (University of Oxford), Barbara Petrongolo (University of Oxford)
  Economics Research Jamboree

Friday 24 June 2022

• 09:00 - Economics of Nature Recovery - Jamboree 2022
  Alex Teytelboym (University of Oxford), Rick van der Ploeg (University of Oxford)
  Economics Research Jamboree

Wednesday 29 June 2022

• 17:30 - Vincent Strudwick Lecture: Religion and Diplomacy in Europe Today
  Archbishop Claudio Gugerotti (the Holy See)

Thursday 7 July 2022

• 09:15 - Literature and Political Thought: A Symposium
  Amanda Anderson, David Bromwich, Richard Bourke, Helen Small (University of Oxford), Sophie Smith, David Womersley (St. Catherine’s)

Wednesday 20 July 2022

• 11:00 - Hurdles: How to succeed as a female leader in the world of megaprojects?
  Leasil Burrow (Saïd Business School, University of Oxford), Gali Glatt Simhi (National Transport Authority, Israel)

Tuesday 6 September 2022

• 09:00 - Workshop 'Being in Debt'
  TBA

Tuesday 13 September 2022

• 12:00 - Harnessing the potential of nature-based solutions to meet net-zero and support a flourishing nature-positive economy
  Dr Nathalie Seddon (Director of the Biodiversity Institute), Dr Nicola Ranger (Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment), Kaya Axelsson (Net Zero Policy Engagement Fellow, University of Oxford; former Vice-President of the Oxford Student Union), Dr. Cecile Girardin (School of Geography)

Tuesday 4 October 2022

• 12:00 - Research Video Showcase
  TBA

Monday 10 October 2022

• 16:00 - An environmentally-augmented Multidimensional Poverty Index: The Case of Madagascar
  Light refreshments from Currydor, a local Indian restaurant in Oxford, will be served to in-person attendees.
  Various Speakers
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 17:00 - Demystifying China's Innovation and Entrepreneurial System
  Professor David Gann (University of Oxford)
  China Centre talks

Tuesday 11 October 2022

• 14:00 - A ‘Harry Potter’ in 1354 and the emergence of a vernacular literary tradition in the Hindi Belt
  Imre Bangha (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Iran Protests: A Panel Discussion
  Walking vigil 3pm from Bonn Square to St Antony’s College directly preceding this event.
  Edmund Herzig (Soudavar Professor of Persian Studies), Maryam Alemzadeh (Associate Professor in History and Politics of Iran), Zuzanna Olszewska (Associate Professor in the Social Anthropology of the Middle East)
• 20:00 - Putin's War: Narratives, Mobilisation, and Perceptions
  Arkady Ostrovsky (The Economist)
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 12 October 2022

• 17:00 - Continuity and Change in US Strategy toward the Middle East and the Islamic World
  Professor Vali Nasr (Johns Hopkins University)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 13 October 2022

• 17:00 - Rediscovering Kamaladevi Chattopadhyaya
  Ellen DuBois
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].

Friday 14 October 2022

• 14:00 - OxCRG MT1: Centring Chinese History
  Various Speakers
  Oxford China Reading Group
• 14:30 - Genethics
  Dr Katrien Devolder (University of Oxford)
  Methods and Work in Progress Seminar in Practical and Medical Ethics
• 16:00 - Oxford Centre for Global History Inaugural Annual Lecture: Why Europe? Y. Pestis. The Black Death and the Rise of Europe
  Please note this seminar is at the H B Allen Centre, Keble College, 25 Banbury Road, but all other seminars will be in the Colin Matthew Room, History Faculty, George Street.
  James Belich (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Jihad, Radicalism, and the New Atheism
  Professor Mohammad Khalil (Michigan State University, USA)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022

Monday 17 October 2022

• 16:00 - The 2022 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index
  Light refreshments from Currydor, a local Indian restaurant in Oxford, will be served to in-person attendees.
  Various Speakers
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 16:00 - Miltonic Monsters among the British Moralists: The Imagination of AI from Hobbes to Shelley
  Eileen M Hunt (Notre Dame)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar
• 17:00 - Katharine Birbalsingh on Education, Race & Conservatism, and In Conversation with Helena Morrissey and Marie Daouda
  Katherine Birbalsingh, Helena Morrissey, Marie Daouda
  The Roger Scruton Memorial Lecture Series
• 17:30 - Transnational Advocacy in the Digital Era, Think Global, Act Local
  Dr Nina Hall (Johns Hopkins University), Dr Emily Jones (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford)

Tuesday 18 October 2022

• 10:00 - How can we improve cooling sustainability for factory workers? Learning from the case of Bangladesh's ready-made garment industry
  Prof Jean Palutikof (Griffith University, Australia)
• 12:30 - Benito Juarez, Republican Internationalism, and the Transformation of Nineteenth Century International Order
  Join Zoom Meeting: https://zoom.us/j/93310459956?pwd=ak5DcEs1ZGFmOXd1c0tUTFNPZzZmdz09; Meeting ID: 933 1045 9956; Passcode: 582070
  Thomas Long (University of Warwick)
  Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
• 14:00 - Rising India's Hidden Transcripts: The Long Shadow of 'Nuclear Apartheid' in the Global Nuclear Order
  Kate Sullivan de Estrada (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Disaggregating Structural Injustice
  Johann Go (Worcester College, Oxford)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop
• 17:00 - Book Launch: The Making of the Modern Middle East
  Jeremy Bowen (BBC)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022
• 17:00 - The Great Experiment - Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure
  ESC Visiting Fellow Prof Yascha Mounk will discuss his latest book
  Prof Yascha Mounk (University of Oxford)
• 17:15 - Can Food Make the World Go Round?: Scientific Nutrition, Environmental Thinking and Empire
  Dr Alma Igra (Van Leer Jerusalem Institute)
  Massada Fellowship Programme seminars
• 20:30 - Tracing Dirty Russian Money and Getting the World to React + 'Follow the Money' Workshop
  Šarūnas Černiauskas (Siena.It)
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 19 October 2022

• 16:00 - Oxford Political Though Seminar: Dissent
  This series is online only, registration essential to receive your personal ZOOM link https://tinyurl.com/ywpewudw
  Professor Valerie Hoffman (University of Illinois)
  Political Thought
• 17:00 - Ben Ali’s Tunisia: Power and Contention in an Authoritarian Regime
  Dr Anne Wolf (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Andrew Roberts on History and Statesmanship, and In Conversation with Robert Tombs
  Andrew Roberts, Robert Tombs, VC Louise Richardson
  The Roger Scruton Memorial Lecture Series
• 17:15 - Paper Victories: The Battle of Britain in Nazi Propaganda
  Victoria Taylor (Independent Scholar)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 20 October 2022

• 17:00 - The Afterlife of Charity Folks: Slavery's Ghosts, Family History, and Descendant DNA
  Jessica Millward
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 17:30 - Dimensions of valuation: Contrasting moral expansiveness and moral capacity
  Dr Josh Rottman (Franklin & Marshall College)
  New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar Series

Friday 21 October 2022

• 10:00 - iSkills: Data Sources for Research - Discovery, Access and Use
  John Southall (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), John Pilbeam (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 14:00 - False Narratives and Political Mobilization
  Ran Spiegler (UCL & Tel Aviv)
  Nuffield Economic Theory Seminar
• 14:00 - OxCRG MT2: New Global Approaches to Late Imperial China
  Various Speakers
  Oxford China Reading Group
• 16:00 - Men of their time? The afterlife of the Indian Raj in Oxford
  Yasmin Khan (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 16:00 - Coloniality, Global Health and Reparations
  Eugene Richardson (Harvard Medical School)
• 17:00 - Resurrecting the Caliphate: The Creed of Abraham and ISIS’s Hermeneutics of Power
  Professor Asma Afsaruddin (Indiana University, Bloomington, USA)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022

Monday 24 October 2022

• 12:45 - Seminar: The role of education-occupation matching in economic inequality
  Dirk Witteveen (Nuffield College)
  Sociology Department Weekly Seminar
• 14:00 - Day 1: Sustaintable Pasts and Resilient Futures Workshop
  Various Speakers
  Sustainable Pasts and Resilient Futures Workshop
• 16:00 - A View from the Fenceline: Evaluating Monitoring and Enforcement Policies to Reduce Oil and Gas Methane Emissions (with Thomas Covert, Michael Greenstone, Olga Rostapshova)
  Ludovica Gazze (University of Warwick)
  Environment and Resource Economics Seminar
• 16:00 - The many forms of poverty: Analyses of deprivation interlinkages in the developing world
  Light refreshments will be served to in-person attendees.
  Dr Ricardo Nogales (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative), Dr Nicolai Suppa (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 16:00 - Painting Political Philosophy
  Emma Planinc (Notre Dame)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar
• 17:00 - Peter Hitchens on After Conservatism, and In Conversation with Daniel Hannan and Noel Malcolm
  Peter Hitchens, Daniel Hannan, Noel Malcolm
  The Roger Scruton Memorial Lecture Series

Tuesday 25 October 2022

• 09:00 - Day 2: Sustainable Pasts and Resilient Futures Workshop
  Various Speakers
  Sustainable Pasts and Resilient Futures Workshop
• 12:30 - The Political Consequences of the Mental Load
  Join Zoom Meeting: https://zoom.us/j/93310459956?pwd=ak5DcEs1ZGFmOXd1c0tUTFNPZzZmdz09; Meeting ID: 933 1045 9956; Passcode: 582070
  Ana Catalano Weeks (University of Bath)
  Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
• 13:00 - What Economists Really Do: Race Related Research in Economics
  Online only
  Arun Advani (University of Warwick)
  What Economists Really Do
• 13:00 - Reconsidering the Principles of Zheng Xuan’s 鄭玄 Canonical Scholarship
  The talk will be in Chinese
  Hashimoto Hidemi 橋本秀美 (Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan)
  China Centre talks
• 14:00 - A supercyclone, landscapes of ‘emptiness’ and shrimp aquaculture: The lesser-known trajectories of disaster recovery in coastal Odisha, India
  Professor Vasudha Chhotray (University of East Anglia)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Title TBC
  Vanessa Wills (Georgetown University)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop
• 17:00 - All Necessary Measures? The United Nations and International Intervention in Libya
  No registration needed; just turn up; all welcome
  Ian (Martin)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022
• 17:15 - The League of Nations, International Law, and the Current Ecological Crisis
  Dr Omer Aloni (Peres Academic Centre, Israel)
  Massada Fellowship Programme seminars
• 17:30 - Serendipity and Academic Careers
  Professor Raj Thakker FRS FMedSci FRCPath FRCPE FRCP
• 20:30 - Russia's Information Warfare in Theory and Practice [on Zoom]
  Dr. Bilyana Lilly (Krebs Stamos Group)
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 26 October 2022

• 09:30 - Effective CVs & Cover Letters for Researchers
  TBA
• 14:00 - Exploring ethical frameworks for valuing endangered languages
  Various Speakers
  Endangered Tribal Languages in India
• 14:00 - Disentangling the Effects of Cooperation on Local Pollution Efforts in the Mekong Delta
  Dr Irene Mussio (Newcastle University Business School)
  CESS Colloquium Series
• 17:00 - Tropical forests to 2050: science challenges for researchers and policy-makers
  Professor Oliver Phillips (University of Leeds)
  Oxford Martin School Series: Post COP26: successes, lessons learnt & what do we need to do now?
• 17:00 - Lessons learned from 2 years of combating misinformation on COVID-19 with the United Nations ‘Verified’ Initiative’ with Gautam Raju
  Please see the registration link below for attendance at this event.
  Gautam Raju (OII)
• 17:00 - Righteous Demagogues: The Moral Economy of Populism
  Dr Adnan Naseemullah (Kings College London)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Online Book Launch: In the Shade of the Sunna: Salafi Piety in the 20th-Century Middle East
  This event is online
  Dr Aaron Rock-Singer (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022
• 17:00 - Nigel Biggar on Deconstructing Decolonisation, and In Conversation with Kemi Badenoch and Ali Ansari
  Nigel Biggar, Kemi Badenoch MP, Ali Ansari
  The Roger Scruton Memorial Lecture Series
• 17:30 - Religion and human rights: Enemies or allies?
  John Witte (Emory)
• 17:30 - Collaborating with organisations to advance the UN Sustainable Development Goals
  Prof Alexander Betts (University of Oxford), Clara van der Pol (UNWTO), Matt Callaghan (Director of Customers & Operations, easyJet holidays), Fiona Jeffrey OBE (Just a Drop), Anjali Sarker (University of Oxford)

Thursday 27 October 2022

• 09:30 - Public Engagement with Research 101
  Dr Michaela Livingston-Banks (Public Engagement Facilitator (Oxford Sparks), University of Oxford)
• 14:00 - Among Women across Worlds: North Korea in the Global Cold War
  Suzy Kim (Rutgers)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 17:00 - Raw materials, the timber crisis, and fears of deforestation during the interwar period
  Omer Aloni (Peres Academic Centre, Rehovot)
  Modern European History Seminar
• 17:30 - From privacy to prohibition: US abortion policy, devolved
  Professor Anita L. Allen, JD., PhD (University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School), Professor Ngaire Woods (Dean, Blavatnik School of Government)
• 19:30 - BBC Security Correspondent Frank Gardner: Journalism in the 21st Century
  Frank Gardner (BBC's Security Correspondent)

Friday 28 October 2022

• 14:00 - OxCRG MT3: Foreign Intervention and the Search for Modern China
  Various Speakers
  Oxford China Reading Group
• 14:30 - Reproductive Ethics
  Dr Rebecca Brown
  Methods and Work in Progress Seminar in Practical and Medical Ethics
• 15:15 - Contemporary colonial frontier making: Thinking from the operational digital enclosure in Northwest China
  Darren Byler (Simon Fraser)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024
• 16:00 - “Disorders of Bestial Origin”: Race and Venereal Disease in the Atlantic World
  Katherine Paugh (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The Evolution of Contemporary China Studies: Coming Full Circle?
  This is an in-person and online event. To attend online (via Zoom), registration is required
  Professor David Shambaugh (George Washington University)
  China Centre talks
• 17:00 - The struggle for Salafism in Egypt’s post-revolutionary period
  Stéphane Lacroix (Sciences Po, Paris, France)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022
• 17:30 - AfOx Insaka with Dr Machilu Zimba and Dr. José Lingna Nafafé
  Dr Machilu Zimba (University College London), Dr. José Lingna Nafafé (University of Bristol)
  AfOx insaka - a gathering for sharing ideas and knowledge about Africa-focused research

Saturday 29 October 2022

• 10:00 - Join us at the Festival of Social Science this half term! Saturday 29 – Sunday 30 October
  Various Speakers

Monday 31 October 2022

• 16:00 - Unidimensional Underpinnings of Multidimensional Counting Measures
  Light refreshments from Currydor, a local Indian restaurant in Oxford, will be served to in-person attendees.
  Professor James Foster (Georges Washington University)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 16:00 - ‘Power to the People?’: Citizens and the Everyday State in Early Postcolonial South Asia
  Professor Sarah Ansari (Royal Holloway, University of London)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 16:00 - Parliamentary institutions in the political thought of Jean Bodin
  Paulina Kewes (Oxford)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar
• 16:30 - The Art of Dissent | Film screening & pre-film talk with Director James Le Sueur and Timothy Garton Ash
  Professor Timothy Garton Ash (University of Oxford), Professor James Le Sueur (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
  St Antony's Looks at the World
• 17:30 - Brazil: Looking ahead
  Professor Timothy Power (University of Oxford), Dr Anna Petherick (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford), Dr Filipe Recch (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford), Dr Leany Lemos (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford), Professor Gabriela Lotta (Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV))

Tuesday 1 November 2022

• 12:30 - The Co-opted State: Bureaucrats, Development, and Corruption in Ghana
  Join Zoom Meeting: https://zoom.us/j/93310459956?pwd=ak5DcEs1ZGFmOXd1c0tUTFNPZzZmdz09; Meeting ID: 933 1045 9956; Passcode: 582070
  Sarah Brierley (LSE)
  Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
• 14:00 - Urdu as a language for Science? Textbook experiments in Roorkee College of Engineering in the nineteenth century
  Sajid Nizami (Government M.A.O. College, Lahore; Academic Visitor, OS)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Mansplaining and Its Political Consequences for Women’s Voice
  Laura Montanaro (University of Essex)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop
• 17:00 - Book Launch: Yemen, poverty and conflict
  Helen Lackner (SOAS, University of London)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022
• 17:00 - Economic Diversification in Nigeria: The Politics of Building a Post-Oil Economy
  This is a hybrid event. Please register via the link below to attend in person or online.
  Zainab Usman (Director, Africa Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)
• 17:30 - Durable Derangements: The Climate of Mumbai's Coastal Road
  Nikhil Anand (UPenn), Hannah Knox (UCL)
• 18:00 - Royals and Rebels: The Rise and Fall of the Sikh Empire
  Dr Priya Atwal (Oxford)
• 20:30 - Lessons from Russia's 2022 Invasion of Ukraine
  Dr Jack Watling (RUSI)
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 2 November 2022

• 12:30 - Virtual Diaspora, Postcolonial Literature and Feminism
  Dr Ashmita Khasnabish (Lasell University)
• 14:00 - Multidimensional poverty and endangered languages and cultures
  Various Speakers
  Endangered Tribal Languages in India
• 15:00 - No Future without Truth? A Dialogue on the Colombian Truth Commission's Report
  Andrei Gomez-Suarez (University of Winchester), Dr Gwen Burnyeat (Merton College, University of Oxford), Alejandra Miller (Colombian Truth Commission), Peter Drury (Colombian Truth Commission)
• 17:00 - Escape: How a generation shaped, destroyed and survived the internet with Marie Le Conte
  Please see the registration link below for attendance at this event.
  Marie Le Conte (politics writer)
• 17:00 - Turkey’s Economic Development and Political Economy since 1980
  Professor Şevket Pamuk (Bogazici University)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:15 - The American Scientific-Military State in the Early Nineteenth Century
  Sveinn Jóhannesson (Edinburgh)
  History of War Seminar Series
• 17:30 - Romanes Lecture - Taoiseach Micheál Martin T.D., Prime Minister of Ireland.
  Taoiseach Micheál Martin T.D., Prime Minister of Ireland (Government of Ireland)
• 18:00 - Beyond Imperfect Justice: Legality and Fair Labelling in International Criminal Law
  Talita de Souza Dias (University of Oxford), Professor Dapo Akande (Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford), Dr Devika Hovell (London School of Economics and Political Science), Dr Miles Jackson (University of Oxford), Professor Kevin Jon Heller (University of Copenhagen)

Thursday 3 November 2022

• 15:30 - ‘Burning Ambition: Education, Arson, and Learning Justice in Kenya’
  Elizabeth Cooper (Simon Fraser University)
  African Studies Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Necessary Fictions: The State, Stock Markets and Growth in East Asia
  Professor John Yasuda (Johns Hopkins University)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:00 - Permettereste a vostro figlio di sposare Lola?”: Latent Fascism, American Culture, and Blackness in Postwar Italy
  Jessica Harris
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 17:30 - The Moral Machine Experiment
  Dr Edmond Awad (University of Exeter)
  New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar Series

Friday 4 November 2022

• 11:00 - Viral Politics book launch
  Eben Kirksey (University of Oxford), Vanessa Lim (Weimar Klassik Stiftung), Dr Frédéric Keck (EHESS: Paris), Lyle Fearnley (Singapore University of Technology and Design), Miguel Vatter (Deakin University)
• 14:00 - OxCRG MT4: Hong Kong in the Cold War
  Various Speakers
  Oxford China Reading Group
• 16:00 - Ideology and Economic Change: the Contrasting Paths to the Modern Economy in late 19th century China and Japan
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Debin Ma (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The International Thought of Turkish Islamists: History, Civilization and Nation
  Associate Professor Katerina Dalacoura (London School of Economics and Political Science, UK)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022
• 17:30 - Regression and Resistance: The Struggle for Women's Rights in Afghanistan
  Various Speakers
• 19:00 - Xi’s Third Term and the Future of China
  Rosemary Foot (St Antony's College), Cindy Yu (The Spectator)
  Oxford Political Review

Saturday 5 November 2022

• 09:00 - The Sudanese Programme 1-Day Conference: Ecological Impacts of Proposed Jonglei Canal, National Identity Crisis, Communal Conflicts and the Peace in South Sudan
  This is a hybrid event, please join us in person if you can. Otherwise you can link in through ZOOM. To receive your personal ZOOM link please visit our website and register through there, https://www.sudaneseprogramme.org
  David S. Bassiouni (The Bassiouni Group), Abraham A. Awolich (People’s Coalition for Civil Actions), Laura Nunu Numirano (Medical Director and Researcher in Health Education), Rachel Ayrton (University of Birmingham), Tag Elkhazin (Carleton University), Yien Matthew Chol (Linguist, Literati and Human Rights Activist), Rita M. Lopidia (Eve Organization for Women Development, South Sudan and Uganda)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series

Monday 7 November 2022

• 16:00 - Measuring Multidimensional Poverty: a Global Assessment of Data Availability and Data Gaps
  Light refreshments from Currydor, a local Indian restaurant in Oxford, will be served to in-person attendees.
  Miss Fanni Kovesdi (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 16:00 - Who are the Muslims? Savarkar on Indian Muslim Origin
  Professor Luna Sabastian (Northeastern University - London)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 18:00 - Dystopia and crisis: How can we imagine a better world when the world is burning?
  Sir Geoff Mulgan (UCL), Professor Ngaire Woods (Dean, Blavatnik School of Government)

Tuesday 8 November 2022

• 12:30 - Does Local Exposure to Refugees Affect Voting Behavior
  Join Zoom Meeting: https://zoom.us/j/93310459956?pwd=ak5DcEs1ZGFmOXd1c0tUTFNPZzZmdz09; Meeting ID: 933 1045 9956; Passcode: 582070
  Sascha Riaz (Nuffield College)
  Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
• 13:00 - Webinar - Dickens on How Not to Do It: Bureaucracy, Busyness, and the Cultural Afterlife of the Circumlocution Office
  Jonathan Foster (Stockholm University)
  Human Dignity and Bureaucracy Seminars
• 13:15 - Introduction to Careers in International Development
  TBA
• 14:00 - Coercion and Compromise: Militarism and Informality in Everyday Policing
  Dr Zoha Waseem (University of Warwick)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 14:30 - Trauma in Fieldwork: Experience-sharing seminar
  Maureen Freed (University of Oxford), Dr Catherine Grasham (Postdoctoral researcher in Water Security and Society, University of Oxford)
• 17:00 - Book Launch: Inside Qatar: hidden stories from the one of the richest nations on earth
  Dr John McManus (British Institute at Ankara)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022
• 17:00 - Diaspora engagement in times of severe crisis: A European comparative perspective
  Please join us for drinks after the seminar
  Othon Anastasakis (St Antony's College, University of Oxford), Irina Lapshyna (Ukrainian Catholic University), Maria Koinova (University of Warwick), Manolis Pratsinakis (COMPAS, Universty of Oxford)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)

Wednesday 9 November 2022

• 08:30 - South China Sea Contemporary Issues Workshop
  Registration closes at 12noon on Tue 8 November, for both online and in person attendence.
  Various Speakers
• 14:00 - Endangered languages, governance and policy issues
  Various Speakers
  Endangered Tribal Languages in India
• 14:00 - Andreas Malm: On Eco-Sabotage
  Andreas Malm (Lund University)
  SoGE Economy and Society Cluster Events
• 14:00 - When Voters Care About What They Don't Care
  Francesco Raffaelli (University of Oxford), Luis Cornago Bonal (Oxford)
  CESS Colloquium Series
• 14:30 - “Aur bhi taiyareeyan karni padti hai” (Even more preparation is needed): The everyday life of preparation for work in India’s government services
  This is a hybrid event. To attend online, please register via the link below.
  Abhishek Datta (University of Oxford)
  Social Life of Work Seminar Series
• 15:30 - Who Took These? Photography as participatory politics in Rhodes Must Fall Oxford: Closing Panel
  Jacqueline Otagburuagu, Dr Emily Brady (University of Oxford)
  Photography as participatory politics: feminist anti-racism in Rhodes Must Fall
• 16:00 - Crossing the Iron Curtain: North Korea’s and Japan’s Connections to the World during the Cold War
  Please note this seminar is at 16:00
  Camilo Aguirre Torrini (University of Sussex), Paul Kreitman (Columbia University)
  International History of East Asia Seminar
• 17:00 - Actualizing Ideal Islam: Principles of Islamic Revival at the Dawn of Modernity
  Dr Fitzroy Morrisey (All Souls, Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - World Safe for Autocracy? The Domestic Politics of China's Foreign Policy
  Professor Jessica Chen Weiss (Cornell University)
• 18:00 - Andreas Malm: Climate Politics when its too late
  Andreas Malm (Lund University)
  SoGE Economy and Society Cluster Events

Thursday 10 November 2022

• 13:30 - Staying to Work in the UK - Visa Information and Advice
  TBA
• 14:00 - The Power of Inclusion: Designing equitable energy systems across social divisions
  Makena Ireri (Head of Energy at CLASP), Alexander Haack (Programme Director of Energising Development (EnDev), GIZ), Samantha Stratton-Short (Head of Strategic Initiatives, Infrastructure & Project Management at UNOPS), Elizabeth Wangeci Chege (Energy Efficiency & Cooling Specialist at Sustainable Energy for All), Edwin Obiero (Regional Director for West Africa at Practical Action)
• 16:15 - Deparochializing (global) justice: why and how
  Catherine Lu (McGill University)
  Interdisciplinary Seminar on Empire
• 17:00 - What Justice for Famine Crimes? | Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture 2022
  Alex de Waal (World Peace Foundation)
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures
• 17:00 - Intersectionality and Realities: Racialized Women’s Lives in 19th Century California
  Marne Campbell
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].

Friday 11 November 2022

• 14:00 - Thomson on Agent-Relative Prerogatives
  Christopher Wellman (Washing University in St Louis)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop
• 14:00 - OxCRG MT5: Rethinking Intellectual Transition in Late Imperial China
  Various Speakers
  Oxford China Reading Group
• 14:30 - Law and Medical Ethics
  Dr Lisa Forsberg
  Methods and Work in Progress Seminar in Practical and Medical Ethics
• 16:00 - Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic
  Jennifer Morgan (NYU)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The Reception of Sayyid Qutb’s Controversial Ideas Among Jordanian Muslim Brothers
  Professor Joas Wagemakers (Utrecht University & Netherlands Interuniversity School of Islamic Studies (NISIS))
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022
• 17:00 - Nature as an Asset or Nature as a Subject of Rights: Which way for addressing the global biodiversity crisis?
  This is a hybrid event. To attend online, please register via the link below.
  Roldan Muradian (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil)
  Climate Change and the Challenges of Development
• 17:00 - Sidney Ball Memorial Lecture 2022: Professor Ann Phoenix, 'Who are we? Contesting and transforming racialised histories and futures in the Carolean era'
  Professor Ann Phoenix (Professor of Psychosocial studies at the Thomas Coram Research Unit, Department of Social Science, UCL Institute of Education.)

Monday 14 November 2022

• 16:00 - Human Development Report 2022 - Uncertain Times, Unsettled Lives. Shaping Our Future in a Transforming World
  Yu-Chieh Hsu (Human Development Report Office (HDRO)), Tasneem Mirza (United Nations Development Programme (UNDP))
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 16:00 - Languages of republicanism: res publica and swaraj
  Manjeet Ramgotra (SOAS)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar
• 17:00 - Treatment of prisoners of war in armed conflict
  Professor Dapo Akande (Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford), Dr Lawrence Hill-Cawthorne (University of Bristol), Yvette Issar (ICRC, Geneva), Andrea Raab (ICRC, London), Dr Miles Jackson (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 15 November 2022

• 14:00 - Book Launch – Seeking Supremacy: The Pursuit of Judicial Power in Pakistan
  Registration required for zoom attendance
  Dr Yasser Kureshi (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Hong Kong – China’s canary down the mine?
  The Rt Hon, the Lord Patten of Barnes, CH PC Chancellor (University of Oxford)
  China Centre talks
• 17:00 - Book Launch: Deserts Are Not Empty
  3 of the 4 guest speakers joining online - 1 will join us in the lecture theatre. Audience will gather in the lecture theatre.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dala Musaed Alsayer (Kuwait University), Samia Henni (Cornell University), Menna Agha (Carelton University), Ariella Aisha Azoulay (Brown University)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022
• 17:00 - Book launch: ‘The Constitution in Jeopardy’ by Russ Feingold and Peter Prindiville
  Russell Feingold, Peter Prindiville (Stanford University)
• 17:00 - The Forgotten Constitutional Revolution: Amending American Democracy in the Early Twentieth Century
  Prof. Bruce Schulman (Harmsworth Professor of American History)
• 17:00 - Globalizing the Greek-Turkish 1922: displacements, population movements and the coming of the national state
  Hybrid event
  Marilena Anastasopoulou (Pembroke College, Oxford), Matthew Frank (University of Leeds), Georgios Giannakopoulos (City University of London)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
• 17:00 - Question Time: The Current State of UK Politics Home and Abroad
  Baroness (Arminka) Helić, Lord (Jonny) Oates, Lord (Paul) Boateng, Baroness (Kate) Fall
  Visiting Parliamentary Fellows Programme
• 17:30 - Swiss Ambassador Markus Leitner: Small Country, Big Ideas
  Markus (Leitner)
• 20:30 - The New Cold War: Winners and Losers
  Edward Lucas (The Economist)
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 16 November 2022

• 14:00 - Before languages are endangered: Community, connection, and sacred identities
  Various Speakers
  Endangered Tribal Languages in India
• 17:00 - Why the Palestinians Still Don’t Have a State, and Why Their Need is More Urgent Than Ever
  Lord McDonald of Salford (Christ's College, Cambridge)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Why the Palestinians still don't have a State, and why their need is more urgent than ever
  Lord McDonald of Salford (Christ's College, Cambridge)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - The UK government approach to crisis management
  David Munroe (UK Cabinet Office)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series
• 17:15 - Russian High Command and the Entente Military Strategy, 1914-1917
  Sofiya Anisimova (St Andrews)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 17 November 2022

• 15:00 - Climate Change & Mental Health: Exploring Responses Across Cultures
  Various Speakers
  Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities and Ethox Centre
• 16:30 - Germany, Ukraine and the Future of Europe and Global Order
  Sold out. Registration is now closed.
  Timothy Garton Ash (St Antony's College), Gwendolyn Sasse (ZOiS, Berlin), Peter Wittig (Schaeffler AG, Berlin), Professor Margaret MacMillan (St Antony’s College, Oxford)
  Oxford in Berlin
• 17:00 - Black Women, American History and the Rough Corners of Vengeance
  Kali Gross
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 17:30 - How do movement parties learn lessons of defeat in Taiwan? The case of the Green Party Taiwan
  Dr Dafydd Fell (SOAS)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 18 November 2022

• 10:00 - War and the Future of Ukraine - Conference
  SOLD OUT - REGISTRATION CLOSED Co-convened by the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies; St. Antony’s College, Oxford (Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre and European Studies Centre); the Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna; Centre for East European and International Studies, Berlin.
  Various Speakers
  European Studies Seminar
• 14:00 - OxCRG MT6: A Genealogy of Feudalism
  Various Speakers
  Oxford China Reading Group
• 16:00 - Empire and the eighteenth-century origins of global temperature
  Harriet Mercer (Cambridge)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Thinking beyond the Islamic state versus modern liberalism: Islamism, non-Muslims, and communitarian citizenship
  Professor Rachel Scott (Virginia Tech, USA)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022
• 17:00 - Establishment of the Dame Louise Richardson Chair in Global Security
  The Rt Hon, the Lord Patten of Barnes, CH PC Chancellor (University of Oxford), Professor Ngaire Woods (Dean, Blavatnik School of Government), Professor Dapo Akande (Faculty of Law, University of Oxford), Professor Ciaran Martin (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford)

Monday 21 November 2022

• 16:00 - Inclusive absolute well-being changes: An application with multidimensional cross-country analysis
  Light refreshments from Currydor, a local Indian restaurant in Oxford, will be served to in-person attendees.
  Dr Suman Seth (University of Leeds)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 17:00 - The state of the African state: Where has it come from and where is it going?
  Nick Westcott (Director, Royal African Society)
  Oxford Martin School Events

Tuesday 22 November 2022

• 14:00 - Global India and the politics of accountability in South-South Cooperation
  Laura Trajber Waisbich (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 16:00 - From Cyberspace to the Metaverse: Toward an Intellectual History of the Internet
  This seminar is given jointly with the Political Thought Seminar
  Angus Burgin (Johns Hopkins)
  American History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Book Launch: Pacted Democracy in the Middle East: Tunisia and Egypt in Comparative Perspective
  Hicham Alaoui (Hicham Alaoui Foundation)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022
• 17:00 - The economic commitment of climate change
  Prof Anders Levermann (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK))
• 17:00 - A Postcolonial Society in a World of Empires. Perspectives on German History since 1919
  Gabriele Metzler (Humboldt University Berlin)
  European Studies Seminar
• 20:30 - The Pentagon, Climate Change, and War
  Neta Crawford
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 23 November 2022

• 12:30 - Turkey: After Erdogan?
  Lunchtime seminar - Sandwiches provided
  Sinan Ciddi (Marine Corps University), William Park (King's College London)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
• 16:00 - POSTPONED - Uncivil Liberalism and the Globalisation of Dadabhai Naoroji’s Ideas of Sociality
  Dr Vikram Visana (University of Leicester)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 16:30 - Rebellion: XR Documentary Screening and Panel Discussion
  Farhana Yamin (Systemiq), Maia Kenworthy
• 17:00 - Islamic Prohibition, National Regulations and International Norms
  Dr Elife Biçer-Deveci (Universität Bern)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Book Launch: Young America: The Transformation of Nationalism before the Civil War
  Dr Mark Power Smith (University of Oxford), Prof Susan-Mary Grant (Newcastle University)
• 18:00 - Ukraine: The future of ethnic and religious diversity
  Professor Volodymyr Kulyk (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine), Dr Olga Onuch (University of Manchester), Dr Dmytro Vovk (Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University)

Thursday 24 November 2022

• 19:00 - Sir David Omand: Intelligence and Security in the 21st Century
  Professor Sir David Omand (King's College London)

Friday 25 November 2022

• 14:00 - OxCRG MT7: Hong Kong: A Decolonising Transition
  Various Speakers
  Oxford China Reading Group
• 14:30 - Neuroethics
  Dr Muriel Leuenberger
  Methods and Work in Progress Seminar in Practical and Medical Ethics
• 16:00 - "Fellow Travelling" in the age of decolonisation: Basil Davidson and the independence struggles in Lusophone Africa
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Pedro Aires Oliveira (Instituto de História Contemporânea, Lisbon)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Shi‘i visions of Muslim unity in contemporary Britain
  Cancelled
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Elvire Corboz (University of Edinburgh)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022
• 17:00 - Evening with Martin Wolf and Sarah O'Connor: Economic and Political Journalism in an Age of Inflation and Division
  Martin Wolf CBE (Financial Times), Sarah O'Connor (Financial Times)
  Oxford Political Review

Monday 28 November 2022

• 11:30 - The Oxford Taiwan Studies Programme Launch
  Various Speakers
• 15:00 - Building a global fundraising career: a view from the MENA region and UNHCR
  This event is taking place online only so please register via the link below if you would like to attend. The event finishes at 4pm UK time.
  Houssam Chahine (UNHCR)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series
• 16:00 - Multidimensional Poverty Dynamics in Indonesia in the time of COVID-19: Lessons Learned and Policy Implications
  Light refreshments from Currydor, a local Indian restaurant in Oxford, will be served to in-person attendees.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Putu Natih (University of Oxford)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 17:00 - Book launch — The Face of Peace: Government Pedagogy amid Disinformation in Colombia
  Dr Gwen Burnyeat (Merton College, University of Oxford), David Gellner (All Souls College, Oxford), Eduardo Posada-Carbó (University of Oxford)
• 17:00 - Panel Discussion 'The age of the strongman: populism and authoritarianism in global politics'
  In-person attendance is fully booked. Online attendance available.
  The Rt Hon, the Lord Patten of Barnes, CH PC Chancellor (University of Oxford), Professor Margaret MacMillan (St Antony’s College, Oxford), Gideon Rachman (Chief Foreign Affairs Columnist, Financial Times), Prof Ricardo Soares de Oliveira (Department of Politics and International Relations)
  Oxford Martin School Events

Tuesday 29 November 2022

• 12:30 - Members of the Same Club?: Subnational Variations in Electoral Returns to Public Goods
  Join Zoom Meeting: https://zoom.us/j/93310459956?pwd=ak5DcEs1ZGFmOXd1c0tUTFNPZzZmdz09; Meeting ID: 933 1045 9956; Passcode: 582070
  Tugba Bozcaga (King's College London)
  Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
• 17:00 - Drop-in fuels from sunlight and air
  Professor Aldo Steinfeld (ETH Zurich)
  Oxford Martin School Events
• 17:00 - Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Annual Lecture: Centres, Peripheries and New Histories of the Left in Iran
  Rasmus Christian Elling (University of Copenhagen)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022
• 20:30 - Russia's Defence Industry Under Sanctions
  Dr Richard Connolly (Royal United Services Institute)
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 30 November 2022

• 09:00 - Black Empowerment and Whites’ Counter-Mobilization: The Effect of the Voting Rights Act
  Andrea Bernini (University of Oxford)
  Applied Microeconomics Workshop
• 12:45 - Socialist Experiment of Yugoslavia: Exploring the Effect of Labour-Managed Socialism on Economic Development
  Magnus Neubert (Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies)
  Economic and Social History Graduate Seminar
• 16:00 - Secularity
  This is an online ZOOM webinar, please register through the Middle East Centre events webpages to receive your personal ZOOM link
  Provost Professor Winnifred Fallers Sullivan (Indiana University Bloomington), Professor Armando Salvatore (McGill University)
  Political Thought
• 17:00 - Islamic Socialism: Radical Individuality and Equality?
  Dr Humeira Iqtidar (King's College London)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:30 - The future of the US Republican Party: A Q&A with Pablo E. Carrillo
  Pablo E. Carillo, Professor Karthik Ramanna (Blavatnik School of Government)

Thursday 1 December 2022

• 12:15 - 'A new global treaty on plastic pollution – updates from the front line'
  Andy Raine (Senior Legal Officer & Head of the International Environmental Law Unit in the Law Division, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP))
  Oxford Martin School Events
• 16:30 - Majorities, Minorities, and the Future of Nationhood
  Dr Maya Tudor (Blavatnik School of Government)
• 17:00 - "The Terrible Doubt of Appearances": Langston Hughes, Masculinity, and Homosexuality
  Jake Dorman
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 17:15 - Global History and the Great War: Concepts, Methods, Arguments
  Due to unforeseen circumstances, this seminar has had to be postponed to 1 December
  John Horne (Trinity College Dublin)
  History of War Seminar Series

Friday 2 December 2022

• 14:00 - OxCRG MT8: Chinese Nationalism
  Various Speakers
  Oxford China Reading Group
• 16:00 - The De-Imperialization of Colonialism: Revisiting Colonial Reforms and Anti-Colonial Movements in the 1920s
  Geert Castryck (Leipzig)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Contesting Muslim Legal Sovereignty in Colonial India
  With sincere apologies, this event is Cancelled
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Associate Professor Sohaira Siddiqui (Georgetown University in Qatar)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022
• 17:30 - AfOX Insaka on Climate Change and Just transitions in Africa
  Dr Jessica Omukuti (Research Fellow on Inclusive Net Zero, working with the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society (InSIS) at the University of Oxford), Pamla Gopaul (African Union Development Agency-NEPAD), Pamela Levira (African Union)
  AfOx insaka - a gathering for sharing ideas and knowledge about Africa-focused research

Wednesday 11 January 2023

• 12:45 - The role of journalism in disrupting corruption
  Jane Bradley (New York Times), Mitali Mukherjee (Reuters Institute, Oxford), Professor Chris Stone (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford)

Monday 16 January 2023

• 16:00 - The Logic of Cruelty and Violence in Ambedkar and Gandhi
  Professor Uday Singh Mehta (The City University of New York)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 17:00 - The impact of the full-scale invasion on journalism in Ukraine
  Olga Tokariuk (RISJ & CEPA)
  Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar

Tuesday 17 January 2023

• 14:00 - The Ethical Impulse(s) behind Civil Rights Activism in India
  Ankita Pandey (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Empty Cradles: Israel’s Disappeared Children
  Dr James Eastwood (Queen Mary)
  Israel Studies Seminar Series Hilary Term 2023
• 14:15 - Empty Cradles: Israel’s Disappeared Children
  A coffee and tea reception will be offered from 2pm.
  Dr James Eastwood (Queen Mary)
  Israel Studies Seminar - Oct 2017 – Mar 2023
• 20:30 - Russia's Air War in Ukraine
  Justin Bronk (RUSI)
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 18 January 2023

• 17:00 - Syria: The glory and the agony
  Ghayth Armanazi (Former Ambassador of the Arab League)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 19 January 2023

• 15:45 - Xenophobic Discrimination
  Professor Shreya Atrey (University of Oxford)
• 16:00 - Solidarity and Persecution: Queer Women in Nazi Germany
  Sam Huneke
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 17:00 - Writing against Hitler. Herman Budzislawski – A Jewish Life in the Twentieth Century
  Daniel Siemens (Newcastle)
  Modern History Research Seminar

Friday 20 January 2023

• 13:00 - Modernity in Early 20th Century China
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group
• 15:00 - Philosophical Analysis of Institutions (Seminar 1 of Institutions: Understanding and Evaluating Them)
  Revd Dr Patrick Riordan (Campion Hall, Oxford)
  Institutions: Understanding and Evaluating Them
• 16:00 - Abolitionism and the Global Suppression of "Piracy" in the Nineteenth Century
  Manuel Barcia (University of Leeds)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - IRAQ: The Political Economy of Institutional Decay and Government Dysfunction
  Dr Ali Allawi (Former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Republic of Iraq and author of The Occupation of Iraq (2007))
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 23 January 2023

• 12:45 - Progony: Criminal Governance in Russian Prisons through Hidden Written Communication
  Dr Elena Racheva (Department of Sociology, University of Oxford)
  Sociology Department Weekly Seminar
• 16:00 - Harriet Jacobs and Ida B. Wells on (Black) Loss: Egalitarian Witness Against Pornographic Pain
  Juliet Hooker (Brown)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar
• 17:00 - Identity and citizenship from the bottom up in Crimea and Moldova
  Dr Eleanor Knott (LSE)
  Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar

Tuesday 24 January 2023

• 14:00 - Free Speech in Mughal India: Dissent and Resistance in Poetic Expression
  Saif Mahmood (Bonavero Institute, Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Invisible Settles: Resettling Palestinian Collaborators in Israel
  Prof. Menachem Hofnung (Hebrew University)
  Israel Studies Seminar Series Hilary Term 2023
• 16:00 - Fanny Bullock Workman, Transimperial Mobility, and Fantasies of “Anglo-Saxon” Subjectivity in the Gilded Age
  Nathan Cardon (Birmingham)
  American History Research Seminar
• 18:30 - PPE CENTENARY LECTURE: The Power of Narratives in Nation Building
  Mathias Thoenig (University of Lausanne)
  PPE Centenary Professorship Lectures
• 20:30 - Russia's Arms Industry Under Sanctions
  Richard Connolly (RUSI)
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 25 January 2023

• 16:00 - Colonial Time-Consciousness and the American Revolution
  Helena Yoo Roth (CUNY)
  Rothermere American Institute Events
• 17:00 - States of subsistence: the politics of bread in contemporary Jordan
  Jose Ciro Martinez (University of York)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Toward Social Diplomacy
  Professor Dr. Alisher Faizullaev (The University of World Economy and Diplomacy, Tashkent, Uzbekistan)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series
• 17:15 - Rumours of bio-wars: Typhoid and terrorism in Palestine in 1948
  Roderick Bailey (Oxford)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 26 January 2023

• 13:00 - "Historians Will Say They Were Just Good Friends": University Histories, Queer Histories
  Emily Rutherford
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 14:00 - The Global Growth of Climate Change Litigation
  Dr Benjamin Franta (Sustainable Law Programme)
  INET Oxford Researcher Seminars
• 14:30 - CANCELLED - The Republic of South Sudan: Coming out of the Peace Process and the Path to Economic Development
  His Excellency Honourable Minister Puot Kang Chol, Minister of Petroleum for the Republic of South Sudan
• 14:30 - The Republic of South Sudan: Coming out of the Peace Process and the Path to Economic Development
  THIS EVENT IS CANCELLED
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  His Excellency Honourable Minister Puot Kang Chol (Minister of Petroleum for the Republic of South Sudan), Dr Ahmed Al-Shahi (The Sudanese Programme)
• 17:00 - Envisaging Germany from afar: female foreign correspondents and émigrés in the 1930s and 1940s
  Kat Friege (Oxford)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:30 - Rachel Auerbach, cultural genocide and a new conception of victims' testimonies
  Professor Leora Bilsky (Tel Aviv University)

Friday 27 January 2023

• 13:00 - Governance in Warlord Era China
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group
• 15:30 - In Conversation: Iván Duque Márquez, Former President of Colombia
  This event is only open to University of Oxford students and faculty. Please bring your University Card or Bod Card to the event, as it is required for entry.
  Iván Duque Márquez
• 16:00 - From Anti-Slavery to East India Reform: Trans-Atlantic Abolitionism, British Colonial Philanthropy, and Empire in India, 1838-43
  Andrea Major (University of Leeds)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Clerics in the time of Tishreen: The evolution of religion-civil society relations in post-2003 Iraq
  Marsin Alshamary, Research Fellow with the Middle East Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
• 17:00 - China and the UK in 2023, is there a Progressive Way Forward?
  Catherine West (MP)
  China Centre talks

Monday 30 January 2023

• 13:30 - Red Pen Activism in the Making of Climate Standards. A Review of Tensions between Urgency, Inclusivity and Ambition in Net Zero Norm
  Hot beverages and cake will be provided 15 minutes before and after the start and finish time.
  Kaya Axelsson (University of Oxford)
• 17:00 - Roundtable on Paul Tucker’s Global Discord (Princeton University Press, 2022) - FULL. Please write to cecile.fabre@all-souls.ox.ac.uk if you wish to be on the waiting list.
  Andrew Hurrell (Balliol College), Professor Nicholas Barber (Faculty of Law), Duncan Snidal (University of Oxford), Damian Cueni (Faculty of Law)
• 17:00 - The Kazakh Spring and waves of mobilization in Kazakhstan
  Dr Diana Kudaibergenova (Cambridge)
  Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar

Tuesday 31 January 2023

• 14:00 - Musical Citizens and Postcolonial Custodians: Inter-religious Dialogue in Post-Partition Punjab and Beyond
  Radha Kapuria (Durham University)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Federalism for Beginners: Intergovernmental Relations in the Early American Republic
  Grace Mallon (Oxford)
  American History Research Seminar
• 16:00 - Book Talk: 'Peacebuilding Legacy: Programming for Change and Young People's Attitudes to Peace'
  Sukanya Podder (Reader in Post-war Reconstruction and Peacebuilding, King's College London)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series
• 16:00 - Oxford Political Thought Seminar - Power/knowledge
  Sohaira Siddiqui (Georgetown), Ovamir Anjum (Toledo)
  Contemporary Islamic Studies Programme
• 17:00 - Book Launch Algeria: Politics and Society from the Dark Decade to the Hirak
  Dr Michael Willis (St Antony's College)
  Middle East Centre Tuesday Book Launch (Book Talk)
• 17:00 - Reparations and the search for justice: International law and the Anglo-German and Polish-German mixed arbitral tribunals (1919–c.1932)
  Jakob Zollmann (Berlin Social Science Centre (WZB) and St Antony's College, Oxford), Patrick Cohrs (University of Florence and St Antony's College, Oxford)
• 20:30 - Can Espionage be Ethical?
  Professor Cecile Fabre (Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College)
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 1 February 2023

• 16:00 - Nigeria National Multidimensional Poverty Index
  Light refreshments from Currydor will be served
  Sola Afolayan (Federal Government of Nigeria), Prince Adeyemi Adeniran (Federal Government of Nigeria)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 17:00 - Inventing the Middle East: Britain and the Persian Gulf in the age of global imperialism
  Dr Guillemette Crouzet (Warwick)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Book Launch | The Connections World: The Future of Asian Capitalism
  Simon Commander & Saul Estrin
  Saïd Business School Events

Thursday 2 February 2023

• 14:00 - A Defeated Samurai of Japan’s Civil War and the Transnational Re-imagination of Civilisation in the Late Nineteenth-Century United States
  Dr Chinami Oka (Tanaka Junior Research Fellow in Japanese Studies, Pembroke College, Oxford)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
• 16:00 - Animated Transitions: “Sex Change”, Racial Fantasies and Trans*/Animal Relations
  Jonah Garde
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 16:15 - Gandhi's Silence
  Professor Faisal Devji (St Antony's, Oxford)
  Interdisciplinary Seminars on Empire
• 17:00 - Higher Education, Feminism, and National Efficiency: The Case of “Domestic Science”
  Emily Rutherford (Oxford)
  Modern History Research Seminar

Friday 3 February 2023

• 13:00 - The Macroregions of China
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group
• 15:00 - Institutions of Local Government and their Common Good (Seminar 2 of Institutions: Understanding and Evaluating Them)
  Prof. Mathias Nebel
  Institutions: Understanding and Evaluating Them
• 16:00 - Enforcing Abolition and the Emergence of Humanitarian Intervention in the Nineteenth Century
  Fabian Klose (Cologne)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Tracing Fragments: Art, Youth and Feminist Activism in Iraqi Kurdistan
  Houzan Mahmoud, Feminist Activist, Writer, and founder of Culture Project, Isabel Käser, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bern & Visiting Fellow at the Middle East Centre, LSE
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 6 February 2023

• 17:00 - Has the Russian invasion finished off the Ukrainian oligarchy?
  Dr Dave Dalton (Independent Scholar)
  Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar

Tuesday 7 February 2023

• 12:10 - The View From Beijing: Reflections on Recent Developments in the PRC
  Talk and discussion will start at 12.10
  Prof. Katherine Morton (Schwarzman College)
  China Centre talks
• 14:00 - The Indian Diaspora and Transnational Political Identities
  Edward Anderson (Northumbria University)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 15:00 - The Fusion of Zionism and Science: The First Two Decades—And the Present Day?
  Professor Amos Morris- Reich (Tel Aviv)
  Israel Studies Seminar Series Hilary Term 2023
• 16:00 - The Rise (and Fall) of “Government through Reflection and Choice”
  Nicholas Cole (Oxford)
  American History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The Lost Future and How to Reclaim it
  Book launch!Signed copies of the book will be on sale at the event.
  Jan Zielonka (Oxford)
• 20:30 - European Security and the Global Markets: Estonia's Outlook
  Mr Viljar Lubi (Embassy of Estonia) (Estonian Ambassador to the United Kingdom)
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 8 February 2023

• 12:00 - The Risk of Conflict in the Taiwan Strait: Strategy, Technology and Deterrence
  Dr James Lee (Academia Sinica)
  China Centre talks
• 16:00 - "To Remedy the Evils Under Which We Labor": Internal Improvement as Religious Statecraft in the Antebellum South
  Isaiah Ellis (Toronto)
  Rothermere American Institute Events
• 16:00 - Oxford Political Thought Seminar - Ottomans
  Helen Pfeifer (Cambridge), Andrew Hammond (Oxford)
  Contemporary Islamic Studies Programme
• 16:00 - Optimized multidimensional ​​poverty reduction subject to aid targeting and tailoring: A variety of models centered on policy-makers’ capabilities
  Light refreshments from Currydor will be available to in-person attendees.
  Dr Vladimir Hlasny (UN ESCWA), Dr Hassan Hamie (UN ESCWA), Professor Paul Makdissi (University of Ottawa)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 17:00 - Social cohesion and integration of minorities in post-conflict Muslim societies
  Salma Mousa (Yale University)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Why are Albanians coming to the UK? Push and pull factors
  In person and online. Booking required for online attendance only.
  Andi Hoxhaj (University College, London), Peter Walsh (COMPAS, Oxford)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
• 17:15 - Mercenaries, Modernity, and the International: Re-evaluating the 19th century 'shift away from mercenary use'
  Malte Riemann (Reading/Sandhurst)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 9 February 2023

• 14:00 - Ivan Svit and Ukrainian - Japanese collaboration in Manchuria,1922-1945
  Dr Olga Khomenko (CARA/British Academy Fellow, Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies)
• 17:00 - Transfeminine lives and love in Weimar and Nazi Germany
  Zavier Nunn (Oxford)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Title TBC
  In collaboration with the Modern European Seminar
  Bodie Ashton, Zavier Nunn
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].

Friday 10 February 2023

• 13:00 - Theology in Early 20th Century China
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group
• 16:00 - The Local and the Coastal: How Slave-Ship Outfitters Understood Atlantic Africa
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Anne Ruderman (LSE)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The Iraq Invasion and Transnational Jihadism
  Thomas Hegghammer, Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 13 February 2023

• 16:15 - The Abstraction of Sovereignty: The Ottoman Empire in Early Twentieth-Century Socialist Thought
  Dr Faridah Zaman (Somerville College, Oxford)
  Interdisciplinary Seminars on Empire
• 17:00 - Trust, political participation, and the stability of Russia's regime
  Dr Danielle Lussier (Grinnell College, USA)
  Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar

Tuesday 14 February 2023

• 14:00 - Buddhism and Marginality in Translation among Ambedkarites in East Asia
  Dr Jon Keune (Michigan State University)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 14:00 - The Political Fairy Tale: The Case of Little Red Riding Hood in Palestine
  Loaay Wattad (Tel Aviv)
  Israel Studies Seminar Series Hilary Term 2023
• 17:00 - Reparations Unbound: Dismantling Systemic Racial Injustice in the 21st Century
  This Lecture has been cancelled.
  Lawrie Balfour (University of Virginia)
• 17:00 - Winant Lecture in American Government - Reparations Unbound: Dismantling Systemic Racial Injustice in the 21st Century
  This Lecture has been cancelled.
  Lawrie Balfour (Virginia)
  American History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The UK Economy: Opportunities, Challenges and Responsibilities
  Harriett Baldwin (MP), Professor Sir Paul Collier (Blavatnik School of Government)
• 17:00 - Geo-technology: an analysis of global decoupling pressures in technology and geopolitics today
  Scott Young (Consultant, Geo-technology (and former GGD student) from the Eurasia Group), Nick Reiners (Senior Analyst, Geo-technology, Eurasia Group)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series

Wednesday 15 February 2023

• 12:00 - Where next for ESG investing?’ a conversation with Baroness Morrissey DBE
  Baroness Helena Morrissey (House of Lords)
  Oxford SDG Impact Lab Lectures & Seminars
• 12:00 - Webinar - Administration, Poetry, Theology: Marguerite de Navarre’s Unusual Trinity
  Jonathan Patterson (Oxford)
  Human Dignity and Bureaucracy Seminars
• 12:30 - The Added Value of Local Democracy: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in India
  Vijayendra Rao (World Bank)
  CSAE Lunchtime Seminars
• 15:00 - China’s Ambitions to Explore the Moon and the Prospects for Lunar Governance
  Prof Martin Elvis (Harvard University), Dr Alanna Krolikowski (Missouri University of Science and Technology)
  China Centre talks
• 16:00 - Cumulative deprivations in the labour market
  Light refreshments from restaurant Currydor will be provided.
  Professor Kirsten Sehnbruch (London School of Economics and Political Science), Dr Mauricio Apablaza (London School of Economics and Political Science and Universidad del Desarollo, Chile)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 17:00 - Russian colonialism and the Ismailis: The exploration and annexation of the Pamirs, 1879 - 1905
  Alexander Morrison (New College, Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Democracy, promotion and safeguarding after accession: Does the EU matter?
  In person and online
  Eli Gateva (DPIR, Oxford), Othon Anastasakis (SEESOX, St Antony's College, Oxford)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
• 17:30 - Baroness Catherine Ashton in conversation with Professor Ngaire Woods
  Baroness Catherine Ashton, Professor Ngaire Woods (Dean, Blavatnik School of Government)

Thursday 16 February 2023

• 14:00 - Meaningful, but lacking in depth? Critical attitudes to Sinitic material in the Poetry Contest in Six Hundred Rounds
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Thomas McAuley (University of Sheffield)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
• 16:00 - The young sodomite: Age and agency in sodomy cases in the late medieval Southern Low Countries
  Jonas Roelens
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 17:00 - Do Holocaust perpetrators have a history?
  Mark Roseman (Indiana)
  Modern History Research Seminar

Friday 17 February 2023

• 09:00 - Reforming Capitalism, Going Digital and Going Green: Does Japan Hold Answers?
  TBA
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
• 12:30 - Chinese State-Owned Companies and Investment in Latin America and Europe
  For link to full paper, please contact: information@chinese.ox.ac.uk
  Professor Larry Catá Backer (白 轲) (Pennsylvania State University)
  China Centre talks
• 13:00 - Studying High Politics in Contemporary China
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group
• 15:00 - Institutional Corruption (Seminar 3 of Institutions: Understanding and Evaluating Them)
  Revd Dr Patrick Riordan (Campion Hall, Oxford)
  Institutions: Understanding and Evaluating Them
• 16:00 - New World Royalists: Slavery and Inheritance in Plantation Jamaica
  Matthew Smith (UCL)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The Popular Mobilisation Units and their Pursuit of Power and Legitimacy within the Iraqi State
  Dr. Inna Rudolf, Senior Research Fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) at the War Studies Department of King’s College London and Partner at the Candid Foundation.
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 20 February 2023

• 17:00 - Political effects of natural resources and pro-authoritarianism
  Dr Danielle Lussier (Kings College London)
  Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
• 17:00 - MEC & OSGA present - Women, Protests, Revolutions: Iran Uprising after Five Months.
  Dr. Sahar Maranlou. Lecturer in Law and Socio- Legal Studies. Essex School of Law, Dr. Naghmeh Sohrabi. Charles (Corky) Goodman professor of Middle East History and the Director for Research at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University, Dr. Pardis Asadi Zeidabadi. Researcher and Visiting Lecturer at City, University of London
  MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars
• 18:00 - Bad bets, bad apples, or bad policy? Should ordeals be a policy tool of the Twenty-first Century?
  Professor Carolyn Heinrich (George Eastman Visiting Professor, Balliol College, Oxford), Professor Ngaire Woods (Dean, Blavatnik School of Government)

Tuesday 21 February 2023

• 12:30 - Guest talk from the UK Information Commissioner
  John Edwards (Information Commissioner's Office)
• 14:00 - The Materiality of Debt, Kinship, and the Invisible Violence of Migration in Nepal
  Dr Ina Zharkevich (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 14:00 - The Israel Supreme Court Religion and the Relationship of State and Religion in Israel
  Professor Anat Scolnicov (Winchester)
  Israel Studies Seminar Series Hilary Term 2023
• 16:00 - The Crisis of Household Government and the Rise of Democratic Conservatism before the American Civil War
  This event has been cancelled.
  Mark Power Smith (Oxford)
  American History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Book Launch “Locked Out of Development: Insiders and Outsiders in Arab Capitalism”
  Steffen Hertog (Associate professor of comparative politics, Department of Government, LSE)
  Middle East Centre Tuesday Book Launch (Book Talk)
• 17:00 - The European Parliament’s engagement in international human rights: Achievements, limitations and prospects
  Research presentation from the EU Visiting Fellow
  Dr Eamonn Noonan (St Antony's College, Oxford)
• 17:15 - Cleopatra's Nose: Historical Contingency and Why it Matters
  Professor Yemima Ben-Menahem (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
  Massada Fellowship Programme seminars
• 18:00 - A conversation with Dr Carolyn Browne, Director, Verification Division at Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
  Dr Carolyn Browne (Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons)
• 20:30 - China's "No Limits" Ties with Russia: the View from Beijing
  James Miles (China writer-at-large, the Economist)
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 22 February 2023

• 16:00 - Engineering Peace: Technology and the End of Politics in the American Nineteenth Century
  This event has been cancelled
  Gordon Fraser (Manchester)
  Rothermere American Institute Events
• 16:00 - Oxford Political Thought Seminar - Constitutionalism
  Gianluca Parolin (Aga Khan University), Jocelyne Cesari (Harvard)
  Contemporary Islamic Studies Programme
• 16:00 - Political Economy of Violent Conflicts: Facts (Part 1 of 2)
  Mathias Thoenig (University of Lausanne)
  PPE Centenary Professorship Lectures
• 16:00 - Multidimensional Poverty in Europe. A Longitudinal Perspective
  Light refreshments from Currydor will be provided.
  Dr Nicolai Suppa (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative), Professor Philippe Van Kerm (University of Luxembourg)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 17:00 - Religious rights and freedom of speech
  Rt Hon the Baroness Hale of Richmond DBE (Former President of the Supreme Court)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Old stories in new ways: Using the TV documentary form to revisit national history
  In person and online. Booking required for online attendance.
  Stathis Kalyvas (All Souls College, Oxford))
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
• 17:15 - Russian sieges of Kars in the 19th century
  Candan Badem (Uppsala), Alexander Morrison (Oxford)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 23 February 2023

• 13:00 - The decadence of morals: Sodomy and temporality in Paris, 1660–1730
  Benjamin Bernard
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 14:00 - Going Logo: What to Expect of Japan's G7 Presidency
  Professor Hugo Dobson (University of Sheffield)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
• 17:00 - Constructions of Caste in Nazi Germany (title tbc)
  Luna Sabastian (Cambridge)
  Modern History Research Seminar

Friday 24 February 2023

• 13:00 - Qing Ecological Policy and the Creation of Manchuria
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group
• 16:00 - Manifesting Colonial Collectivities: Black Women and Trauma in Mid-Colonial Mexico
  Danielle Terrazas Williams (University of Leeds)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Cheaters Dilemma: Iraq, WMD and the path to the 2003 war
  The Chicken Farm problem: Iraqi WMD disclosures and the 2003 war
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Sub-State Nations’ Struggle for Recognition in the 21st Century: the Case of Québec
  Paul St-Pierre Plamondon (National Assembly of Québec and the leader of the Parti Québécois)

Monday 27 February 2023

• 12:00 - Oxonian Review Seminar: A Conversation with Yi-Ling Liu
  TBA
• 13:00 - Working with the media and public engagement
  Various Speakers
• 17:00 - The New Roundheads: Politics and the Misuse of History
  Jonathan Sumption (All Souls), John Simpson (BBC)

Tuesday 28 February 2023

• 12:00 - The Sustainable Development Goals: A Perspective From Politics
  Lord Jack McConnell (House of Lords)
  Oxford SDG Impact Lab Lectures & Seminars
• 14:00 - A Cowherd’s Chapbook: An Inquiry into the Ethics of Literary Historiography
  Pranav Prakash (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Rituals of Loyalty: When Israeli Journalists Face Digital Hate
  Ayala Panievsky (Cambridge)
  Israel Studies Seminar Series Hilary Term 2023
• 16:00 - Racial Inequality in the U.S. Unemployment Insurance System
  Daphné Skandalis (University of Copenhagen)
  Applied Microeconomics Seminar
• 16:00 - Round Table: ‘Sports and the American Presidency’
  Rivers Gambrell (Oxford), Adam Burns (Brighton College), Chris Birkett (City University of London), Elizabeth Rees (Oxford)
  American History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Uncivil society in Central and Eastern Europe
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Prof Lenka Bustikova (University of Oxford)
• 20:30 - The Challenge of Democracy Promotion
  Congressman David Price (US House of Representatives)
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 1 March 2023

• 15:00 - Chinese Companies Going Global. Findings from the Cornell EMI report 2022
  Dr Lourdes Casanova (Cornell University), Dr Anne Miroux (Cornell University)
  China Centre talks
• 16:00 - Political Economy of Violent Conflicts: Causes (Part 2 of 2)
  Mathias Thoenig (University of Lausanne)
  PPE Centenary Professorship Lectures
• 17:00 - Climate policy in Muslim societies
  Adil Najam (Boston University)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Oxford India Centre Scholars Research Showcase
  TBA

Thursday 2 March 2023

• 13:00 - Politics Across the Ming-Qing Transition
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group
• 13:00 - The Invention of (Gay) Community
  Mori Reithmayr
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 14:00 - Workshop: A strategy for Europe
  Various Speakers
• 14:00 - Beyond "trans-border": Translation and Difference in Contemporary Japanese Literature.
  Dr Vicky Young (Kawashima Associate Professor in Modern Japanese Literature and Culture, University of Cambridge)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
• 16:15 - British Imperialism: history, myth and memory
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Professor John Darwin (Nuffield College, Oxford)
  Interdisciplinary Seminars on Empire
• 17:00 - Societies under Siege: Experiencing States of Emergency in the Long Twentieth Century
  Stefanie Middendorf (Jena)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Dreaming Together: Communes Before Communism, 1919-1921
  Dr Shakhar Rahav (University of Haifa)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:00 - The role of political deference in the British tradition of liberty
  Professor Catherine Marshall (Oliver Smithies Visiting Fellow)
  Oliver Smithies Lectures

Friday 3 March 2023

• 09:30 - GIH DPhil Presentations
  Please note change of date from 2 to 3 March
  Various Speakers
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 10:00 - Virtual borders: human rights and the fluid subject of algorithmic governance
  Dr Dimitri Van Den Meerssche (Queen Mary University of London)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 15:00 - Financial Institutions (Seminar 4 of Institutions: Understanding and Evaluating Them)
  Mr Edward Hadas
  Institutions: Understanding and Evaluating Them
• 17:00 - Iraq 2018-2019: The Rule of Law: a perspective
  The Rt Hon Sir Peter Gross, Formerly Lead Judge for International Relations
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 6 March 2023

• 10:30 - Open Scholarship: Fundamentals of Open Access
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries), David Phillips (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Polly Bannister (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Beth Paton (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  2023 - Oxford Festival of Open Scholarship
• 13:00 - Open Scholarship: Forum of Open Scholarship
  Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  2023 - Oxford Festival of Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - Political effects of natural resources and petro-authoritarianism
  Dr Gubad Ibadoghlu (LSE)
  Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
• 17:00 - Can international humanitarian organisations adapt to face the challenges of this century?
  Yves Daccord (Former CEO of the International Committee of the Red Cross)
  Oxford Martin School Events

Tuesday 7 March 2023

• 12:00 - Situating Hong Kong in International Politics through Documentary Filmmaking: the Questions of Agency and Representation
  Dr Malte Kaeding (University of Surrey), Dr Heidi Wang-Kaeding (Keele University)
  China Centre talks
• 14:00 - Settler Colonial Studies, Secessions of Colonialism, and Ethnonationalism: An Edward Saidian Consideration?
  Dr Moshe Behar (Manchester)
  Israel Studies Seminar Series Hilary Term 2023
• 16:00 - Uncivil Liberalism and the Globalisation of Dadabhai Naoroji’s Ideas of Sociality
  Dr Vikram Visana (University of Leicester)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 16:00 - Thinking Again about American Jewish Liberalism: the ‘Children of 1848’ in the United States
  Abigail Green (Oxford)
  American History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Democracy promotion and safeguarding after accession: Does the EU matter?
  In person and online. Booking required for online attendance only.
  Eli Gateva (Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford), Othon Anastasakis (St Antony's College, University of Oxford), Mihail Chiru (Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
• 20:30 - Geopolitics of Belarus in Ukraine Context
  Laurynas Jonavičius (Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania)
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 8 March 2023

• 16:00 - Book Talk: America's Philosopher: John Locke in American Intellectual Life (Chicago, 2022)
  Claire Rydell Arcenas (Montana)
  Rothermere American Institute Events
• 16:00 - Oxford Political Thought Seminar - Politics
  Hussein Omar (University College Dublin), Susanna Ferguson (Smith College)
  Contemporary Islamic Studies Programme
• 16:00 - Multidimensional Poverty Dynamics in Indonesia in the time of COVID-19: Lessons Learned and Policy Implications
  Light refreshments will be available from Currydor.
  Dr Putu Natih (University of Oxford), Dr Elan Satriawan (Vice President’s Office, Indonesia)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 17:00 - Varieties of Islamic constitutionalism
  Clark B. Lombardi (National University of Singapore)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - West, anti-West and the geopolitical balancing: Deciphering Turkey’s Russia policy
  In person and online. Booking required for online attendance only.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Galip Dalay (St Antony’s College, Oxford)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
• 17:00 - The Digital Republic: How to regulate digital technology
  This event will be in-person and streamed via Zoom.
  Jamie Susskind

Thursday 9 March 2023

• 13:00 - Contested Chinese Nationalism and Global Spatial Imaginaries at the Turn of the 20th Century
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group
• 14:00 - Commoning the City: The Townscape Councils of Kyoto
  Professor Christoph Brumann (Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
• 16:00 - Title TBC
  Talitha Le Flouria
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 17:00 - Queer Love and Secret Same-Sex Marriage in the Polish countryside during the interwar period
  Kamil Karczewski (EUI, Florence)
  Modern History Research Seminar

Friday 10 March 2023

• 09:30 - GIH MSt Presentations
  Various Speakers
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 10:00 - Missing Bodies, Missing Voices: Ordinary Lives and the Reframing of ‘Postwar Japan’
  TBA
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
• 10:30 - Human Rights and Climate Action – Vanuatu and the ICJ
  Dr Thom Wetzer (Associate Professor of Law and Finance and Founding Director, Oxford Sustainable Law Programme), Professor Lavanya Rajamani (Faculty of Law), Hon Ralph Regenvanu (Minister for Climate Change, Vanuatu), Dr Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh (Assistant Professor of Public International Law, Leiden University), David Shukman (British Journalist and former science editor, BBC)
• 17:00 - 'The Transformation of Iraq since the 2003 Invasion: From "The Dodgy Dossier", to Human Security, Gender, and the Nation's Future in the Face of Climate Change'
  Ibrahim al-Marashi, Associate Professor at California State University, San Marcos
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Homelands: A Personal History of Europe
  Book launch!
  Timothy Garton Ash (St Antony's College)

Saturday 11 March 2023

• 16:00 - Russia's Political Future: War, Regime Transformation and Change
  Ekaterina Schulmann (Narikbayev KAZGUU University)

Monday 13 March 2023

• 10:00 - Humanities has Data! Whatever Next!?
  Sarah Ogilvie (Senior Research Fellow, Harris Manchester, University of Oxford), Andrew Dunning (R.W. Hunt Curator of Medieval Manuscripts), Cristina Dondi (Lincoln College), Miranda Lewis (University of Oxford, History Faculty)
  2023 - Oxford Festival of Open Scholarship
• 16:00 - Nations Ascendant: Towards a Global Intellectual History of Self Determination
  Professor Zaib un Nisa Aziz (University of South Florida, Tampa)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Wednesday 15 March 2023

• 14:30 - Climate Research and Open Data at Oxford
  Lennon Mhishi, Hannah Budnitz (University of Oxford), Jason Partridge (University of Oxford), Dr Jose Maria Valenzuela (University of Oxford), Prof Sir David Hendry (INET Oxford, University of Oxford)
  2023 - Oxford Festival of Open Scholarship
• 16:00 - Counting and Accounting: Measuring the Effectiveness of Fiscal Policy in Multidimensional Poverty Reduction
  Online only
  Dr Maria Emma Santos (OPHI, CONICET)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty

Friday 31 March 2023

• 10:00 - What did COVID-19 teach us about preparing for mega-crises?
  Ciaran Martin (Blavatnik School of Government), Professor Sir David Omand (King's College London)

Friday 21 April 2023

• 15:00 - Does non-commitment undermine the hypocrite’s standing to blame?
  Prof. Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen (Aarhus University)
  Uehiro Practical Ethics and Law Lectures

Tuesday 25 April 2023

• 12:30 - CGIS Undergrad Thesis Workshop: Gender and Women's History
  Various Speakers
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 12:30 - Democratization and Individualism. A Historical Approach
  Join Zoom Meeting: https://zoom.us/j/93310459956?pwd=ak5DcEs1ZGFmOXd1c0tUTFNPZzZmdz09 Meeting ID: 933 1045 9956; Passcode: 582070
  Ignacio Sanchez-Cuenca (Carlos III University of Madrid)
  Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
• 14:00 - Documenting oral histories of Partition collaboratively across a communal divide
  Guneeta Singh Bhalla (Partition Archive, India)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 26 April 2023

• 11:30 - Book Talk: ‘Queer Diplomacy: Homophobia, International Relations, and LGBT Human Rights’
  Dr Douglas Janoff
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series
• 12:00 - The US‒Japan Alliance and Taiwan
  Professor Adam P Liff (Indiana University)
  China Centre talks
• 12:30 - Book talk - The Floating University: Experience, Empire and the Politics of Knowledge
  Tamson Pietsch (University of Technology Sydney)
  Rothermere American Institute Events
• 16:00 - Economics Development in the Shadow of Conflicts
  Mathias Thoenig (University of Lausanne)
  PPE Centenary Professorship Lectures
• 17:00 - “They Didn't Understand Anything, Just Spoiled People's Lives": Brutality, Incompetence and Historical Echoes in Russian-occupied Ukraine
  Anne Applebaum
• 17:00 - The Social World of Traders: Commerce and Social Differentiation in Pre-conflict Aleppo
  Dr Paul S. Anderson (University of Cambridge)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:15 - It’s time to kill the myth that climate action will make us poorer
  https://humphrey_battcock_lecture_2023.eventbrite.co.uk
  Professor Joseph E. Stiglitz (Columbia University), Lord Nicholas Stern (London School of Economics.), Professor Dame Sarah Whatmore (Professor of Environment and Public Policy)

Thursday 27 April 2023

• 14:00 - The Chesterfield conference and the development of socialist ideas and strategy in the 1980s and 90s
  Alfie Steer (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 17:00 - Sanjaya Lall Fund Panel 2023: "Green Industrial Policy: Saving the World without a Trade War"
  Prof Joseph Stiglitz (Columbia University), Lord Stern of Brentford (London School of Economics and Politics), Michael Liebreich (Liebreich Associates)
• 18:30 - OPR Issue 9 Panel & Launch Party: 'Power & Perception'
  Please note that the time of this event is now 6:30 pm and that the room has been changed to the Auditorium at Trinity College.
  Jemima Kelly (Financial Times), Professor Ralph Schroeder (Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford), Eduardo Suárez (Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford)
  Oxford Political Review

Friday 28 April 2023

• 12:00 - “Are We Allowed to Find Beauty in the Face of Death and Destruction: Ishiuchi Miyako’s Hiroshima and Postwar Japan”
  Professor Yoshikuni Igarashi (Vanderbilt University and Visiting Research Scholar at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken))
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
• 14:00 - Modern Battles for Ancient China
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group
• 17:00 - Book Launch - Russia and the GCC 'The Case of Tatarstan’s Paradiplomacy'
  The person who asks the best question from the audience during the audience Q&A will be gifted a copy of the book from the author
  Dr Diana Galeeva (Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 1 May 2023

• 16:00 - Along The Path To Gandhi's Neighbor
  Ajay Skaria (University of Minnesota)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 17:00 - Guarding Dictatorship: China's Surveillance State.
  Professor Minxin Pei (Claremont McKenna College)
  China Centre talks

Tuesday 2 May 2023

• 12:30 - Religion and Acculturation of Immigrants
  Join Zoom Meeting: https://zoom.us/j/93310459956?pwd=ak5DcEs1ZGFmOXd1c0tUTFNPZzZmdz09 Meeting ID: 933 1045 9956 Passcode: 582070
  Pazit Ben-Nun Bloom (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
  Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
• 14:00 - Rohingyas in Decolonisation as a Moment, Process, and Movement
  Dr Jayita Sarkar (Glasgow)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Book Talk | A World of Insecurity: Democratic Disenchantment in Rich and Poor Countries
  Professor Pranab Bardhan (University of California, Berkeley)
• 17:00 - Remembering and Forgetting Pivotal Moments in Modern Chinese History
  Hybrid event. Can be attended in person at the China Centre (no registration required) or online via Zoom (registration required)
  Professor Jeff Wasserstrom (University of California, Irvine), Professor Patricia Thornton (University of Oxford), Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford)
  China Centre Conversation series
• 17:00 - Israel's Covert Diplomacy in the Middle East
  Professor Elie Podeh (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Church and state in contemporary Poland
  Registration not required unless you wish to join online
  Anna Grzymala-Busse (Stanford University), Jarosław Kuisz (Kultura Liberalna), Hubert Czyzewski (Zofia Institute)
  European Studies Seminar

Wednesday 3 May 2023

• 12:00 - China’s Path to Global Influence
  Prof. Richard Carney (China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), Shanghai)
  China Centre talks
• 16:00 - Challenges and Prospects for "Total Peace" in Colombia
  Prof Jenny Pearce (LSE Latin America and Caribbean Centre), Andrei Gomez-Suarez (University of Winchester), Dr Gwen Burnyeat (Merton College, University of Oxford), Dr Jeremy Hobbs (Research Analyst on Latin America, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office), Ivan Briscoe (International Crisis Group, Latin America Director)
• 17:00 - Tunisia’s Democratic Transition: Autonomous Activism and Accountability
  Dr Rory P. McCarthy (Durham University)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - The UN at a time of geopolitical divisions: challenges and opportunities
  Sam Daws (University of Oxford)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series
• 17:00 - Ruling the Sichuan’s Stage: Reading China’s Sociocultural Transformation from the 18th to the 20th Century through the Perspective of Opera
  Dr Igor Iwo Chabrowski (University of Warsaw)
  China Centre talks
• 17:15 - International Law and Wars of Liberation: Rethinking Human Rights at the End of Empire
  Andrew Thompson (Oxford)
  History of War Seminar Series
• 17:30 - Sanjaya Lall Fund Lecture 2023: "Freedom and Liberty: Perspectives from 21st Century Economics"
  Prof Joseph Stiglitz (Columbia University)

Thursday 4 May 2023

• 16:00 - POSTPONED: Agrarian Questions of Gendered Labour in Global South Development Trajectories
  This event has been POSTPONED. A new date will be announced in due course.
  Lyn Ossome (Associate Professor of Political Studies, Political Studies Department, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg)
  ODS Annual Lectures
• 17:30 - Principal's Conversation: Ambassador Andrzej Antoszkiewicz
  Mr John Bowers KC (Principal, Brasenose College, Oxford), Ambassador Andrzej Antoszkiewicz (Brasenose College)

Friday 5 May 2023

• 14:00 - Philosophy and Language in Early Modern China
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group
• 16:00 - Democratizing Luxury: Name Brands, Advertising, and Consumption in Modern Japan
  Professor Annika A. Culver (Florida State University)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
• 17:00 - Shi‘a visions of Muslim unity in contemporary Britain
  Dr Elvire Corboz (University of Edinburgh)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 8 May 2023

• 16:00 - A New Vision of Vivekananda?
  Ruth Harris (University of Oxford )
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Tuesday 9 May 2023

• 12:30 - Conceptualizing and constructing causal mechanism figures
  Join Zoom Meeting: https://zoom.us/j/93310459956?pwd=ak5DcEs1ZGFmOXd1c0tUTFNPZzZmdz09 Meeting ID: 933 1045 9956 Passcode: 582070
  Gary Goertz (Princeton University)
  Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
• 14:00 - Spaces of Melancholia, Melancholias of Space: Shifting Structures of Feeling in Post-Independence Karachi
  Dr Ayyaz Mallick (Liverpool)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 15:00 - Kyoto Prize at Oxford: A personal journey through the information revolution by engineer and applied physicist Carver Mead
  TBA
  Kyoto Prize at Oxford
• 17:00 - Palestinian Women on Demonic Grounds? When Gender is Undone by the German Security Discourse
  Dr Sultan Doughan (University of London), Dr Sultan Doughan (University of London)
  Women's Rights Research Seminars
• 18:00 - Kyoto Prize at Oxford: Laureates' panel: the Kyoto Prize Laureates in conversation with Professor Ngaire Woods
  TBA
  Kyoto Prize at Oxford

Wednesday 10 May 2023

• 11:00 - Kyoto Prize at Oxford: Epidemiological and evolutionary dynamics of pathogens in time and space
  TBA
  Kyoto Prize at Oxford
• 14:00 - Globalizing the 1948 War
  Derek Penslar (Harvard)
• 16:00 - Kyoto Prize at Oxford: Lecture and performance by tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain
  TBA
  Kyoto Prize at Oxford
• 17:00 - Islam and the East: The New Geopolitics of Religion and Identity
  Prof Peter Mandaville (George Mason University)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Glenn Fine: Government Accountability and Oversight in a Democracy
  Glenn Fine (US Departments of Justice and Defence)

Thursday 11 May 2023

• 15:00 - When the Health of the People was the Highest Law: Have Coronavirus Restrictions Damaged the Authority of Laws for the Public’s Health?
  Professor John Coggon (University of Bristol Law School)
  Uehiro Practical Ethics and Law Lectures
• 16:00 - The social and political life of Latin American infrastructures: Insights from the Ecuadorian Andes
  Dr Geoff Goodwin (University of Leeds)
• 17:30 - What to Give Up for the Climate: Asceticism and Ecological Justice
  Dr Alda Balthrop-Lewis

Friday 12 May 2023

• 12:00 - How do Japanese public high schools respond to immigrant students? Challenges of diversity and educational equity in Tokyo
  Professor Misako Nukaga (University of Tokyo), Professor Fumiko Takahashi (University of Tokyo), Professor Tomoko Tokunaga (University of Tsukuba)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
• 14:00 - Chinese Foreign Policy (I)
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group
• 17:00 - Green "new" deal for the Global South or more of the same?
  This is a hybrid event. To attend online please register via the link.
  Aruna Chandrasekhar (Independent journalist)
  Climate Change and the Challenges of Development
• 17:00 - Pakistan: Political Economy of an Elite Captured State
  Dr Miftah Ismail (Pakistan’s former Minister of Finance)
• 17:30 - The Conflict in Syria, A Personal Story
  Dr Haytham Alhamwi (Syrian British Consortium), Dr Husam Haj Omar (University of Oxford)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 15 May 2023

• 12:30 - 2nd Session: Reading Group - War and Peace: Literary Responses
  N/A
  TORCH Doctoral Network: Critical-Thinking Communities
• 16:00 - Seduced by God or Man? Religious Conversions and Women’s Desire in Pakistan
  Ghazal Asif Farrukhi (Lahore University of Management Sciences)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 17:00 - Press Freedom in India (IndOx Annual Event 2023)
  Registration is required. If you find you are no longer able to attend, please email indox@ashmus.ox.ac.uk as soon as possible.
  Nidhi Razdan (Journalist)
  IndOx Seminars and Lectures

Tuesday 16 May 2023

• 14:00 - Entangled Objects, Entangled Nations: Partition and Museums in Lahore and Chandigarh
  Aparna Kumar (UCL)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 17 May 2023

• 12:00 - Decoupling in the Digital Age: China and the Challenge of Massive Modularity
  Prof. Eric Thun (University of Oxford)
  China Centre talks
• 14:00 - The Asymmetry of Obstacles to Peace in Israel and Palestine
  Prof. James Friedberg (West Virginia University)
• 16:00 - Oxford Political Thought - Revolution
  Please register online at https://tinyurl.com/38rwa4ba or through our Centre webpage https://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/events/oxford-political-thought-seminar-revolution to receive your personal ZOOM link.
  Professor Roxanne Euben (University of Pennsylvania), Professor Walter Armbrust (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
  Political Thought
• 17:00 - Writing the History of Saladin
  Prof Jonathan Phillips (Royal Holloway, University of London)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:15 - Beyond Richelieu's Army: perspectives on army, state and society in France, 1620-1660
  David Parrott (Oxford)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 18 May 2023

• 14:00 - Five Times Faster: Rethinking the Science, Economics, and Diplomacy of Climate Change
  Simon Sharpe (Director of Economics for the Climate Champions Team)
• 17:30 - Sanjaya Lall Fund Lecture 2023: "Creating Equality of Opportunity: New Insights from Big Data"
  Professor Raj Chetty (Harvard University)
• 17:30 - Rex Nettleford Lecture 2023
  Ekow Eshun

Friday 19 May 2023

• 12:00 - 日本語の役割語における性差の表現 Expressing Gender Differences in Japanese Role Language
  Professor Satoshi Kinsui (Director of the Osaka Study Center, The Open University of Japan)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
• 14:00 - 1945-49: The four-year collapse of the KMT
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group
• 17:00 - Book Launch, The Caliph and the Imam: The Making of Sunnism and Shiism
  Copies of Toby's book will be on sale at the event at a 30% discount, £17.50 (RRP £25). Payment by card only please, we are not able to accept cash payments on this occasion.
  Dr Toby Matthiesen (Ca’ Foscari University)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The impact of the new geopolitical context on European trade policy
  European Commission (European Commission)
  European Studies Seminar

Monday 22 May 2023

• 13:00 - Rejuvenating Communism: Youth Organizations and Elite Renewal in Post-Mao China
  This talk will be in the Ho Tim Seminar Room (first floor)
  Dr Jérôme Doyon (Sciences Po)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 16:00 - Empires of Complaints: Mughal Law and the Making of British India
  Robert Travers (Cornell University)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 16:30 - The Ends of Freedom: Reclaiming America’s Lost Promise of Economic Rights
  Mark Paul (Rutgers University)
• 17:00 - Sanjaya Lall Fund Panel 2023: Inequality and Social Mobility in the 21st Century
  Professor Raj Chetty (Harvard University), Prof Joseph Stiglitz (Columbia University), Anneliese Dodds MP (Oxford East)

Tuesday 23 May 2023

• 14:00 - India as a ‘civilisational state’
  Emma Mawdsley (University of Cambrdige), Kate Sullivan de Estrada (University of Oxford), Sebastian Haug (University of Cambrdige), Jayati Sristava, Esra Elif Nartok, Udayan Das, Shibashis Chatterjee
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:30 - Bingham Lecture 2023: Brexit and the Political Constitution
  Professor Meg Russell (UCL)
  Bingham Seminars in Constitutional Studies

Wednesday 24 May 2023

• 16:00 - Policies for Peace
  Mathias Thoenig (University of Lausanne)
  PPE Centenary Professorship Lectures
• 17:00 - Grimsby & Blackpool- how community power is helping them with levelling up
  Baroness Valentine of Putney (Special Projects Director, Business in the Community), Jason Stockwood (53 Degrees Capital), Billy Dasein (East Marsh United), Josie Moon (East Marsh United), Professor Sir Paul Collier (Blavatnik School of Government)
  Oxford Martin School Events
• 17:00 - Islam and Empire in India: The Padshah's Sacred Authority and Religious Pluralism in Mughal Times
  Prof Corinne Lefevre (Centre for South Asian Studies (CNRS-EHESS))
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Reconciliation by Stealth: How People Talk About War Crimes
  In person and online. Please register if you wish to join online.
  Denisa Kostovicova (LSE), Jessie Barton Hronesova (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; Ca’ Foscari University in Venice), John Gledhill (Oxford Department of International Development)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)

Thursday 25 May 2023

• 14:00 - Intellectual Property Rights, Climate Technology Transfer and Innovation in Developing Countries
  Kerstin Hötte (INET Oxford), Su Jung Jee (INET Oxford Visiting Fellow)
  INET Oxford Researcher Seminars

Friday 26 May 2023

• 14:00 - Being Christian in China
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group
• 17:00 - PLP Colloquium with Jeremy Waldron
  Professor Jonathan Wolff (University of Oxford), Professor Jeremy Waldron (NYU)
  Philosophy, Law, and Politics Colloquium

Monday 29 May 2023

• 16:00 - Dharma, Artha, and the Politics of Law and Sovereignty in Colonial India
  Sunil Purushotham (Fairfield University)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Tuesday 30 May 2023

• 14:00 - Resistance and Change in Pakistan’s Political Order
  Various Speakers
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Singapore: New (and Old) Challenges for the Little Red Dot
  Dr Shashi Jayakumar (Nanyang Technological University Singapore)
• 17:00 - Women’s movements and citizenship in the Middle East
  Dr Roel Meijer (Radboud Universiteit, The Netherlands), Professor Marilyn Booth (Discussant) (University of Oxford)
  Women's Rights Research Seminars
• 17:00 - Renewing the traditions of reform in Europe
  ESC ANNUAL LECTURE If you wish to attend online, please register with Zoom
  Charles S. Maier (Harvard University)
  European Studies Seminar
• 17:00 - Power and progress: our 1000-year struggle over technology and prosperity
  Prof Simon Johnson (MIT)
• 18:00 - Joseph Nye: Do Morals Matter in International Relations?
  Professor Joseph Nye
  Great Thinkers lecture series

Wednesday 31 May 2023

• 12:00 - The Economics of Mental Health
  Marta Golin (Institute of Labor Economics)
• 13:00 - The Myth and Facts of China's Public Surveillance System: Evidence from the Government Procurement Contracts
  Professor Pinghan Liang (Sun Yat-sen University)
  China Centre talks
• 13:00 - Third Session: Reading Group -
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  N/A
  TORCH Doctoral Network: Critical-Thinking Communities
• 17:00 - Institutions, Guilds, and Economic Prosperity
  Prof Sheilagh Ogilvie (All Souls College, Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 1 June 2023

• 14:00 - The political economy of AI: Towards democratic control of the means of prediction
  Maximilian Kasy (University of Oxford)
  INET Oxford Researcher Seminars
• 17:15 - Warfare and European expansion in the Indian Ocean and Pacific, 1450-1850
  Please note this seminar is on Thursday in the Old Library
  Louis Sicking (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam/Leiden)
  History of War Seminar Series

Friday 2 June 2023

• 14:00 - History, Tradition, and Ethics in Late Imperial Thought
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group
• 14:30 - Transitions between political regime types in the 20th century: Understanding political-science data with complexity science
  ProfKaroline Wiesner (University of Potsdam)
• 15:00 - Institutions: Understanding and Evaluating Them
  Various Speakers
• 15:00 - Medical Treatment Decisions and Children: Judicial Values and Determining Best Interests
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Professor Imogen Goold
  Uehiro Practical Ethics and Law Lectures
• 17:00 - When Men Fell from the Sky: Civilians and Downed Airmen in Second World War Europe
  Claire Andrieu (Sciences Po, Paris), Ruth Harris (University of Oxford ), Martin Conway (Balliol), Nick Stargardt (University of Oxford)
  European Studies Seminar
• 17:00 - Turkey's Elections: The Frontline of Democracy
  This is a hybrid event. Oxford Uni members are encouraged to join us in person at Balliol College. Everyone else is welcome to watch the livestream available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSifXRinId0
  Dr Ayca Çubukçu (LSE Human Rights, London School of Economics), Dimitar Bechev (DPIR, Oxford; Russia Institute, King’s College London), Amberin Zaman (Senior Correspondent, Al-Monitor), Soli Özel (Senior Lecturer, Kadir Has University), Ceren Lord (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Political Review

Monday 5 June 2023

• 16:00 - “His Soul was a Bird of the Divine Throne”: Persian Inscriptions on Mughal Imperial Tombs and Mosques
  A. Azfar Moin (The University of Texas at Austin)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 17:00 - Panel discussion: 'Kleptocracy and The Financial Action Task Force'
  Oliver Bullough (Author and Journalist), Dame Margaret Hodge (MP for Barking and Dagenham), Dr Susan Hawley (Spotlight on Corruption), Professor Jason Sharman (University of Cambridge), Professor Ricardo Soares de Oliveira (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Martin School Events
• 17:45 - David N. Lyon Lecture: “Conflicting compassion: diversity in gender and sexuality in the modern world”
  The Rt Revd Dr Steven Croft, The Lord Bishop of Oxford (Bishop of Oxford), Abigail Thorn (Actress and playwright), Professor Helen King (Open University), Frank Hardee (Oriel College)
• 18:00 - Rory Stewart and philanthropy
  Rt Hon Rory Stewart (President, GiveDirectly; host, The Rest Is Politics; former UK Secretary of State for International Development)
  Green Templeton Lectures 2023

Tuesday 6 June 2023

• 10:00 - OUCAN Conference 2023: The Future of China's Overseas Finance on the BRI's 10th Anniversary
  Various Speakers
  Oxford University China-Africa Network Conference
• 17:00 - Opportunities and challenges facing Ukraine's democratic transition
  In person and online. Registration required for attending online.
  Marcin Walecki (University of Oxford), Caroline Baylon (Future Generations in the UK Parliament), Marnie Howlett (University of Oxford), Prof Lenka Bustikova (University of Oxford)
  European Studies Seminar

Wednesday 7 June 2023

• 12:00 - Vodafone Group's ESG Strategy and the Digital Divide with Bobbie Mellor
  Bobbie Mellor (Vodafone Group)
• 15:30 - Michel Barnier in conversation with Professor Ngaire Woods
  TBA
• 16:00 - Challenges Ahead: Migration and climate change
  Mathias Thoenig (University of Lausanne)
  PPE Centenary Professorship Lectures
• 16:30 - Risk, security and democracy: A public conversation
  Professor Charles Vincent (University of Oxford), Greta Krippner (University of Michigan), Émile P. Torres (Leibniz University Hannover), Professor Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen (University of Copenhagen), Dr Suzanne Schneider (Brooklyn Institute for Social Research), Professor Andrew Stirling (University of Sussex)
  Oxford Martin School Events
• 16:45 - Memorial Event: Derek Hopwood OBE, Emeritus Fellow in Middle Eastern Studies (1933-2020) & Celia Kerslake, Emeritus Fellow in Turkish (1946-2023)
  Various Speakers

Thursday 8 June 2023

• 16:00 - Zionism: An Emotional State by Derek Penslar: Book launch event
  Professor Derek Penslar (Harvard University)
• 17:00 - Sharing Insights: The Lived Experience of Syrian Refugees in Canada
  Keith Neuman (Environics Institute for Survey Research), Jobran Khanji (Environics Institute for Survey Research)
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures

Friday 9 June 2023

• 14:00 - Race and Racialisation in Contemporary China
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group

Monday 12 June 2023

• 10:30 - Unpacking Constitutional Democracy: Concepts and Misinterpretations
  Various Speakers
• 11:00 - Tahriib – Journeys into the Unknown: An Ethnography of Uncertainty in Migration
  Anja Simonsen (University of Copenhagen), Ruben Anderson (ODID), Peter Walsh (COMPAS, Oxford)
• 13:00 - Fourth Session: Reading Group -
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  N/A
  TORCH Doctoral Network: Critical-Thinking Communities
• 16:00 - CANCELLED - Red Maulanas: Islam and the Left in South Asia
  Layli Uddin (Queen Mary University of London)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Tuesday 13 June 2023

• 17:00 - Class, caste and gender in the Tamil Nadu countryside: OICSD Research Showcase
  Prof Judith Heyer (University of Oxford)
• 17:15 - Samaaj, Sarkaar, Bazaar: A citizen-first approach
  Rohini Nilekani

Wednesday 14 June 2023

• 14:00 - Exile and the history of Palestine: Safed and the Critique of Zionism
  Professor Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin (Ben Gurion University, Israel)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Oxford Political Though - Heresy
  Registration essential to receive your personal ZOOM link
  Teena Purohit (Boston University), Zaki Rehman (University of Oxford)
  Political Thought
• 17:00 - Turkey’s general elections 2023: What next?
  In person and online. If you would like to attend online, please register with Zoom on the link below.
  Ezgi Başaran (St Antony's College, Oxford), Mehmet Karli (SEESOX, St Antony's College, Oxford), Karabekir Akkoyunlu (SOAS), Othon Anastasakis (St Antony's College, University of Oxford), Dr Dimitar Bechev (University of Oxford)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
• 17:15 - IR Alchemists and the History Trap
  Brian Linn (Texas A&M)
  History of War Seminar Series
• 17:15 - What the world needs to learn from India's digital transformation
  Nandan Nilekani (InfoSys), Professor Ngaire Woods (Dean, Blavatnik School of Government)

Thursday 15 June 2023

• 12:30 - Reparations and the Political Imagination
  Registration required
  Lawrie Balfour (University of Virginia)
  Rothermere American Institute Events
• 14:00 - Attenuation and reinforcement mechanisms of income and health inequalities
  Matteo Richiardi (University of Essex)
  INET Oxford Researcher Seminars
• 17:00 - Annual George Antonius Memorial Lecture 2023: Zionism and the Jews of Iraq: A Personal Perspective
  Copies of the book will be on sale at the event (cash only). Please aim to arrive in good time to be assured a seat.
  Emeritus Professor Avi Shlaim (University of Oxford)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series

Friday 16 June 2023

• 14:00 - Chinese Foreign Policy (II)
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group
• 15:00 - The structure of racism and the mould of common law
  Shreya Atrey (Associate Professor of International Human Rights Law, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford)
  Uehiro Practical Ethics and Law Lectures

Monday 19 June 2023

• 09:30 - Economics Research Jamboree 2023: International Trade & Policy
  Various Speakers
  Economics Research Jamboree

Tuesday 20 June 2023

• 09:30 - Economics Research Jamboree 2023: Structural Transformation and Economic Growth (STEG)
  Various Speakers
  Economics Research Jamboree
• 13:00 - Economics Research Jamboree 2023: Interface of Theory & Experiments
  Various Speakers
  Economics Research Jamboree

Wednesday 21 June 2023

• 13:30 - Economics Research Jamboree 2023: History, Development & Political Economy
  Various Speakers
  Economics Research Jamboree

Thursday 22 June 2023

• 12:00 - Subnational drivers of unequal development: resource curses, social cleavages, and political settlements
  Professor William D. Ferguson (Grinnell College)
• 13:45 - Economics Research Jamboree 2023: Macroeconomics
  Various Speakers
  Economics Research Jamboree

Friday 23 June 2023

• 10:00 - Economics Research Jamboree 2023: Job Market Candidate Presentations
  Various Speakers
  Economics Research Jamboree
• 11:00 - The European Condition: Looking Back, Looking Forward
  There are limited places to attend the event in person. Please contact us to inquire if there is space.
  Various Speakers
  European Studies Seminar
• 17:00 - Going Green and environmental sustainability: how do we measure it?
  Professor Dimitrios Tsomocos (University of Oxford and St Edmund Hall), Dr Nicola Ranger (Executive Director, Oxford Martin Systemic Resilience Programme), Jonathan Taylor (President, Awesix Services Sàrl), Harriet Waters (Head of Environmental Sustainability, University of Oxford)
  Conversations in Environmental Sustainability: beyond greenwashing
• 17:00 - Is Net Zero Development Possible? - 6th Adrian Fernando Memorial Lecture
  Dr Montek Singh Ahluwalia

Tuesday 27 June 2023

• 17:00 - Africa Re-Imagined
  Also available as a live-stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMxk4ArrHbw
  Professor Richard Joseph (Northwestern University), Dr Patrick Okigbo (Nextier Advisory), Godwin Nwangele (University of Oxford), Chi Okafor (Kendake Honey)

Thursday 29 June 2023

• 15:00 - Overcoming the Oppressors
  Annette Idler (Blavatnik School of Government), Professor Robert Rotberg

Tuesday 15 August 2023

• 01:00 - Prospects for Democracy and the Muslim Subject: Reflecting on the Raba'a Massacre Ten Years On - 2-day Online-Only Conference
  Registration essential, to receive your personal ZOOM link add your details at: https://tinyurl.com/MEC2023Aug
  TBA

Friday 15 September 2023

• 17:30 - Accountability at arm’s length: Dame Margaret Hodge in conversation with Professor Carolyn Heinrich
  Dame Margaret Hodge (MP for Barking and Dagenham), Professor Carolyn Heinrich (Vanderbilt University)

Wednesday 27 September 2023

• 10:30 - 'Media and Democratization: The Taiwan Media in the Shadow of China' and 'TSMC: The Taiwan Way of Manufacturing'
  Lihyun Grace Lin (National Taiwan University), Chun-Yi Lee (University of Nottingham)
  Oxford Taiwan Studies Conference, Technology and Multi-Faceted Change in Taiwan and Globally

Friday 6 October 2023

• 12:00 - Sparks: China's Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future
  Ian Johnson
  China Centre talks

Monday 9 October 2023

• 13:00 - Accelerating Action: A roadmap for global action through APEC and out to COP 28
  Dr Andrew Forrest AO (Fortescue), Professor Mette Morsing (Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford)
• 16:00 - Book Launch: The Muslim Secular by Dr Amar Sohal
  Amar Sohal (University of Cambridge), Faisal Devji (University of Oxford), Teresa Bejan (University of Oxford)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 16:00 - OPHI IIEP GWU Seminar Series: Global MPI
  Professor Sabina Alikre (Director of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 17:00 - Adama Dieng & Prof Andrew Thompson in conversation: 'The United Nations and the prevention of mass atrocities in the 21st Century: some challenges and opportunities'
  Adama Dieng (Former UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide), Professor Andrew Thompson (Oxford)
  Oxford Martin School Events

Tuesday 10 October 2023

• 12:00 - Hong Kong: Not Just Another Chinese City
  Vaudine England (Leiden University)
  China Centre talks
• 14:00 - A City of Men? Youth Masculinities and Everyday Gendered Violences in Urban India
  Shannon Philips (UEA)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:30 - A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story by Nathan Thrall
  Nathan Thrall (Author and Journalist)
  Middle East Centre Tuesday Book Launch (Book Talk)

Wednesday 11 October 2023

• 11:00 - "Strengthening Fragile States: Evidence from Mobile Salary Payments in Afghanistan" (with co-authors: Joshua Blumenstock, Anastasiia Faikina, Stefano Fiorin, Tarek Ghani)
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Michael Callen (LSE)
  Political Economy Seminar
• 15:00 - Smart Cities, Surveillance, and Human Data
  Discussion Group
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 17:00 - Arabic's Easternmost Frontier: Arabic Manuscripts, Sufism and Courtly Culture in Southeast Asia, 17th-18th Centuries
  Prof Andrew Peacock (University of St Andrews)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 18:00 - In Discussion: Ali Maisam Nazary, National Resistance Front of Afghanistan
  Ali Maisam Nazary

Thursday 12 October 2023

• 13:00 - Barbara Savage in conversation with Lyndal Roper on 'Merze Tate: Theorising Modern Black Womanhood'
  Barbara Savage, Lyndal Roper
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 17:00 - Anthropocene opportunities: unleashing humanity's shared aspirations
  Erle Ellis (University of Maryland)
  Oxford Martin School Events

Friday 13 October 2023

• 14:00 - Chinese Historiography on China
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group
• 15:00 - Practical Ethics and Law Lecture: Should Doctors Disobey Abortion Bans?
  Professor Kimberley Brownlee (University of British Columbia), Dr Alberto Giubilini (The Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics)
  Practical Ethics and Law Lectures
• 16:00 - Writing a Global History of the End of Britain (Oxford Centre for Global History 2nd Anthony Gwilliam Annual Lecture)
  Please note this session will take place at the H B Allen Centre, Keble College
  Professor Stuart Ward (Copenhagen)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - CANCELLED - Jewish images of Sultanic power in the 18th and 19th centuries in Palestine, Syria and Iraq
  Professor Orit Bashkin (University of Chicago)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Japan’s threat perception during the cold war: any lessons for today?
  Eitan Oren (King's College, London)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Monday 16 October 2023

• 12:00 - U.S. and European Legal Responses to Chinese Forced Labour
  Mr Aaron Halegua (Aaron Halegua PLLC)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 16:00 - Gross National Happiness (GNH)
  Professor Sabina Alikre (Director of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative), Tshoki Zangmo (OPHI)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty

Tuesday 17 October 2023

• 14:00 - Pakistan & India: Common Origins, Divergent Trajectories
  Also on Zoom - registration required - https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_snw0VJWPTc6720z8W0sCpw
  Pervez Hoodbhoy
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Forced Removal and the Politics of Refugee Recognition in the American Revolutionary War
  James Mackay (University of Edinburgh)
  American History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - HYBRID EVENT - Stories to Connect: The Reza Hosseini Memorial Lecture Series on the past and present of the Middle East
  Ghassan Salamé (Professor of International Relations at Sciences-Po)
• 17:00 - Research 'Speed Dating'
  Various Speakers
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 17:00 - The challenge of participatory democracy in post-national Europe
  Aliénor Ballangé (St Antony's College, Oxford)
  ESC Core Seminar Series
• 17:15 - ‘Sustainability transition for all and for good? The European Green Deal and the European Commission’s narrative power’
  Ekaterina Domorenok (University of Padova)
• 20:30 - Geopolitics of Advanced AI
  Dr Robert Trager (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 18 October 2023

• 11:00 - Black Empowerment and White Mobilization: The Effects of the Voting Rights Act
  Andrea Bernini (University of Oxford)
  Political Economy Seminar
• 12:00 - Xi Jinping: The Hidden Agendas of China's Ruler for Life
  Dr Willy Lam (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
  China Centre talks
• 15:00 - Technology, Great Power Competition, and Track II Dialogues
  Discussion Group
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 17:00 - Beyond Self Interest: Why the Market Rewards Those Who Reject It
  Prof Krzysztof Pelc (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Book Launch - War on the Ballot: How the Election Cycle Shapes Presidential Decision-Making in War
  Andrew Payne (University of Oxford)
• 17:15 - From Pariahs to Influencers: Foreigners in the Russo-Ukrainian War
  Kacper Rekawek ((International Centre for Counter Terrorism (ICCT) – the Hague))
  History of War Seminar Series
• 18:00 - Inevitable decline or renovation of Liberal International Order
  Please enter the building via Jowett Walk (attendees will be let in from 5.45). The talk will be followed by a reception in the Main Hall at QEH.
  Vittorio Emanuele (Parsi)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series

Thursday 19 October 2023

• 13:00 - Reading Group: Saidiya Hartman, Venus in Two Acts
  Saidiya Hartman
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 16:15 - Imperial Collections and Commemorations as Justifications for Empire
  Professor Dan Hicks (Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford), Dr Mishka Sinha
  Interdisciplinary Seminars on Empire

Friday 20 October 2023

• 14:00 - Reappraising the Sino-Soviet Split
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group
• 16:00 - Post-Imperial Possibilities: Eurasia, Eurafrica, Afroasia
  Professor Jane Burbank and Professor Fred Cooper (NYU)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Arabic Literature in a Posthuman Age
  Dr Teresa Pepe (University of Oslo, Norway)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The Buddhist Body of the King: Ritual practices of consecration in medieval Japan
  Prof. Lucia Dolce (SOAS)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Tuesday 24 October 2023

• 12:15 - Wealth in People
  James Robinson (University of Chicago)
  Political Economy Seminar
• 13:30 - Inside American Politics: A Dialogue with Top American Politics and Media Experts
  BOOKING REQUIRED
  Various Speakers
• 14:00 - Limitations on fundamental freedoms in Sri Lanka: majoritarian influence of constitutional practice
  Gehan Gunatilleke (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Rising Powers and the Politics of Status: China and India in the Liberal International Order
  Rohan Mukherjee (LSE)
• 17:00 - WRRS AND MENA POLITICS JOINT EVENT - Women and electoral politics in Iran and Turkey: Undemocratic structures and feminist resistance
  Mona Tajali, Associate Professor (Agnes Scott College)
  MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars
• 17:00 - Does financial assistance mitigate rural backlash? The case of the Common Agricultural Policy in France
  Diane Bolet (University of Essex), Katja Salomo (Social Science Center (WZB)))
  ESC Core Seminar Series
• 20:30 - Mexican Geopolitics and Security
  TBA

Wednesday 25 October 2023

• 15:00 - Deepfakes and Disinformation I
  Discussion Group
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 16:30 - The Ethics of Countering Disinformation: Navigating Normative Ideals in the Age of Fake News
  The talk will be followed by a reception in the Main Hall
  Alicia Fjällhed (Department of Strategic Communication, Lund University)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series
• 17:00 - Fulfulde as a Language of Religious Expression in the Islamic Religious Culture of West Africa
  Prof Louis Brenner (SOAS)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 26 October 2023

• 09:00 - Searching for a Place at the Table: What is The Role of the United Kingdom in the Development and Regulation of Artificial Intelligence?
  Keegan McBride (The Oxford Internet Institute), Professor Helen Margetts (University of Oxford), Kayla Blomquist (The Oxford Internet Institute), Jennifer Beroshi (Google DeepMind)
• 13:00 - Doing History With Things: Visit to the Ashmolean
  Meet at the Information Desk of the Ashmolean
  Jim Harris, Ellie Birch, Steven Yeo
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 17:00 - James Martin Memorial lecture: 'Time to look up – in conversation with Rt Hon Sir Alok Sharma about the climate crisis'
  Right Honourable Sir Alok Sharma (MP & President for COP26), Professor Sir Charles Godfray (Director, Oxford Martin School)
  Oxford Martin School Events

Friday 27 October 2023

• 14:00 - ‘The People’ in Chinese Foreign Policy
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group
• 14:30 - The Politics of Migration Data Visualization
  Dr William Allen (University of Oxford)
  Media and Migration
• 16:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Moritz Mihatsch (Cambridge)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The World is not a Place of Dwelling: Spiritual Creativity in the Arts of Contemporary Islam
  Professor Noah Saloman (Irfan and Noreen Galaria Research Chair and Associate Professor in Islamic Studies, Department of Religious Studies, University of Virginia)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The universal language of the body
  Tarinainanika Theatre Company (Tarinainanika Theatre Company)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Saturday 28 October 2023

• 14:00 - Rethinking Colonialism: The Southern Sudanese Liberation Struggle and the Challenge to Decolonisation
  Dr Yaniv Voller (School of Politics and International Relations, Keynes College, University of Kent), Dr Richard Barltrop (Trustee, The Sudanese Programme), Mr Elhag Paul (Journalist and Activist)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series

Monday 30 October 2023

• 17:00 - The future of global development and implications for Aid
  Charles Kenny (Center for Global Development)
  Oxford Martin School Events
• 17:00 - Film Showing & Discussion: Kekee Manzil - House of Art
  Various Speakers
  Asian Studies Centre seminars and events

Tuesday 31 October 2023

• 11:00 - Finnish Ambassador to the UK: Finland's Accession to NATO
  TBA
• 14:00 - Rising power, precarious citizens: Mobility and democracy in India after 1989
  Indrajit Roy (QEH, Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 16:00 - A History of Black Women Photographers in the Civil Rights Movement
  Emily Brady (University of Oxford)
  American History Research Seminar
• 16:00 - The Oxford LatAm Dialogue: Rights and Security - Striking the balance in Latin American public policies
  Various Speakers
• 17:00 - Sheikh Zayed Book Award Lecture Identity and history: The story of Ibn Tulun's demolished City
  Reem Bassiouney (The American University of Cairo)
  Middle East Centre Tuesday Book Launch (Book Talk)
• 17:00 - University of Oxford Annual Black History Month Lecture: Ann Pratt, Mary Seacole, and Questioning British History
  Christienna Fryar
• 17:00 - Nobel Peace Laureate in Oxford, Juan Manuel Santos Book Launch 'The Battle against Poverty, Colombia: A Case of Leadership’
  Juan Manuel Santos (Former President of Colombia and Nobel Peace Laureate), Dasho Tshering Tobgay (Former Prime Minister of Bhutan), Professor Sabina Alikre (Director of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative)
• 17:00 - From the securitisation of migration to the dehumanisation of refugees: A threat to liberal democracy
  Franck Düvell (Osnabrück University), Basak Kale (Middle East Technical University (METU)), Dr Catherine Briddick (University of Oxford)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
• 17:30 - The Future of Democracy in India: a conversation with Rajmohan Gandhi
  Rajmohan Gandhi
  Asian Studies Centre seminars and events

Wednesday 1 November 2023

• 11:00 - Consolidating an Autocracy: The effect of state media on electoral outcomes in Chávez's Venezuela / The consequences of a trade collapse: Economics and politics in Weimar Germany
  Abelardo De Anda Casas (University of Oxford), Björn Brey (University of Oxford)
  Political Economy Seminar
• 12:30 - Blavatnik Book Talks: The Godless Crusade
  The event is open to University of Oxford members only. Please use your university email address to register.
  Dr Tobias Cremer (Pembroke College and DPIR, University of Oxford), Tom Simpson (Blavatnik School of Government), Dr Maya Tudor (Blavatnik School of Government)
• 15:00 - Deepfakes and Disinformation II
  Cassidy Bereskin (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 17:00 - The Significance of the Dome in Islamic Architecture
  Prof Robert Hillenbrand (University of Edinburgh)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:15 - Military Reform and the Movement of Ideas to and from the British Dominions, 1898-1914
  Doug Delaney (Canadian Royal Military College)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 2 November 2023

• 16:15 - Ralph Bunche and the Ends of Empire
  Dr Emma MacKinnon (University of Cambridge)
  Interdisciplinary Seminars on Empire
• 17:00 - Brenda Stevenson Lecture
  Brenda Stevenson
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].

Friday 3 November 2023

• 14:00 - Chinese Grand Strategy?
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group
• 16:00 - The British Gunpowder Industry and the Making of the Global Firearm Frontier, 1600-1900
  Dr Nicholas Radburn (Lancaster)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Zanzibar's Liberation between the "Global 60s" and Local Politics
  Dr Amal Ghazal (Doha Institute, Qatar)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Quo Vadis ODID? Climate change, growth, and the future of development
  Various Speakers
  Climate Change and the Challenges of Development
• 17:00 - Japan’s “three national security documents” and fundamental reinforcement of defence capabilities: reinforcing a radical military trajectory
  Prof. Christopher W. Hughes (University of Warwick)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
• 17:00 - Human security versus national security: have we lost our capacity for collective action?
  Achim Steiner (United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)), Baroness Valerie Amos (University College, University of Oxford)
  Oxford Martin School Events

Monday 6 November 2023

• 12:30 - The making of the Samoa Agreement: Insights from the negotiations between the EU, Africa and the ACP states
  Light lunch provided
  Maurizio Carbone (University of Glasgow), Eli Gateva (Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford)
  European Studies Seminar
• 16:00 - Belonging in the Digital World: A Conceptual Framework and a Systematic Review of the inter-generational impact of Social Media on ‘Belonging’ in Adolescents and Older Adults
  Kim Samuel (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (Visiting Scholar), Oxford), Dr Prenika Anand (University of Oxford)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty

Tuesday 7 November 2023

• 14:00 - Majoritarian nationalisms and religion in South Asia
  Katharine Adeney (University of Nottingham)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 16:00 - The Culture of Exposure
  Kaeten Mistry (UEA)
  American History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - CANCELLED DUE TO TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS - ‘Colonizing Palestine: the Zionist Left and the Making of the Palestinian Nakba’
  TBA
  Middle East Centre Tuesday Book Launch (Book Talk)
• 17:00 - The Helsinki Process: Past and future
  In person and online. To attend online, please register with Zoom. Booking not required if attending in person.
  Juhana Aunesluoma (University of Helsinki), Kai Hebel (Leiden University), Richard Davy
  ESC Core Seminar Series
• 17:30 - Why is there a gender gap in attitudes towards AI?
  Peter Loewen (Director of the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy), Dr Maya Tudor (Blavatnik School of Government)
• 20:30 - Can a Rising Power India Counter-Balance a Superpower China in the Indo-Pacific Region?
  TBA

Wednesday 8 November 2023

• 11:00 - An Economic Model of Deliberative Democracy
  Professor Sir Tim Besley (LSE)
  Political Economy Seminar
• 15:00 - Implications for Artificial Intelligence on Military and Political Decision-Making
  Adam McCauley (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 17:00 - Power, Knowledge, and the Illusion of Control: Western Counterinsurgency in the Muslim World 1954-2014
  Dr Christian Tripodi (King's College London)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 9 November 2023

• 17:00 - Reading Group: What Sorrows Labour in My Parent's Breast? A History of the Enslaved Black Family
  Brenda Stevenson
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].

Friday 10 November 2023

• 14:00 - Women in Chinese Christianity
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group
• 14:30 - Reporting Migration: A Journalist’s Account
  Daniel Trilling
  Media and Migration
• 16:00 - Libya’s Transition to Independence: Challenging the Paradigm of Competition between Italians and Tripolitanians
  Professor Antonio Morone (Pavia)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - 2023 Sidney Ball Memorial Lecture
  Professor Silja Häusermann (University of Zurich)
• 17:00 - Floating Weeds: Water Hyacinth and the Egyptian Anthropocene
  Professor Pascal Menoret (Center for Economic, Legal, and Social Studies and Documentation (Cairo); Brandeis University (Waltham, MA)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The Compass Rose meets the Rising Sun: a new era of NATO-Japan Relations
  Dr Wrenn Lindgren (Norwegian Institute of International Affairs)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Tuesday 14 November 2023

• 14:00 - An Emotional History of India in the Second World War
  Gupta Diya (City, University of London)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Changing diets to tackle climate change - what’s the role of government?
  Dr Tara Garnett (Director, TABLE), Dustin Benton (Green Alliance), Dhanush Dinesh (Clim-Eat), Arghanoon Farhikhtah (FAO)
• 17:00 - Deviant women: citizenship, political participation, and incarceration of the secular left in post-revolutionary Iran (1979-1990)
  Rosa Rahimi (University of Oxford, Magdalene College)
  MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars
• 17:00 - Rural Europe as a Challenge for Contemporary History
  Anette Schlimm (Anette Schlimm (Weizsacker Fellow, St Antony’s College, Oxford))
  ESC Core Seminar Series
• 17:15 - Upton Lecture 2023: Fake news, learning from Spinoza
  Professor Susan James (Birkbeck, University of London)

Wednesday 15 November 2023

• 11:00 - “Politically Motivated Trade Protection” (with Chad Bown, Aksel Erbahar, and Lorenzo Trimarchi)
  Paola Conconi (University of Oxford)
  Political Economy Seminar
• 13:00 - Refocusing attention on the climate crisis
  Dr Friiederike Otto (Senior Lecturer in climate science at Imperial College)
• 15:00 - Intelligence Services and Artificial Intelligence
  Carla Zoe Cremer (Human Information Processing Lab)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 16:00 - Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture 2023 | Discrimination and Delegation: Explaining State Responses to Refugees
  Dr Lamis E Abdelaaty (Syracuse University)
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures
• 16:00 - Sexuality, Endogamy, and Caste in Colonial India
  Dr Durba Mitra (Harvard University), Moderator: Nikita Arora (DPhil candidate in History, Oxford)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 17:00 - Green Industrialization: Evidence from and for Muslim Societies
  Dr Amir Lebdioui (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - The return of geopolitics in East Asia: Japan’s responses to regional uncertainty
  Mr Koichiro Matsumoto (Director of Research at the Japan Institute of International Affairs)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
• 17:15 - Caring Across Battlefields: Mapping Humanitarian Networks during the Global First World War
  Marina Perez de Arcos (Oxford)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 16 November 2023

• 13:00 - Gendering nostalgia: fourteenth-century longing for the good old days
  Hannah Skoda
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 16:15 - Varieties of Empires, Varieties of Colonialism: An Essay in Historiographic Reconstruction
  Professor Gurminder Bhambra (University of Sussex)
  Interdisciplinary Seminars on Empire
• 18:00 - Panel Discussion: Is Realism Gendered?
  Dr. Jonathan Leader Maynard (Kings College London), Dr. David Blagden (University of Exeter), Professor Laura Sjoberg (Royal Holloway University of London)

Friday 17 November 2023

• 14:00 - Gender in Chinese History
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group
• 14:00 - Cambridge Analytica, 5 Years On
  The event is in-person only at Said Business School, Park End Street and consists of 2 panels 2-4:30pm with a refreshment break followed by a drinks reception at 4:30.
  Professor Victoria Nash (Oxford Internet Institute), Professor Helen Margetts (University of Oxford), Elizabeth Denham CBE (The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO)), Lord Tim Clement Jones (House of Lords), Felix Simon (Oxford Internet Institute), Steve Wood (Oxford Internet Institute), Ravi Naik (Oxford Internet Institute), Frederike Kaltheuner
• 14:30 - The Digital Border: Migration, Technology, Power
  Professor Myria Georgiou (Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics)
  Media and Migration
• 16:00 - Slavery and Industrialization
  Professor Maxine Berg (Warwick), Professor Patricia Hudson FBA
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Single Motherhood, Celebrities, and Popular Culture in Egypt
  Dr Hanan Hammad (Professor of History and Chair of Women & Gender Studies at Texas Christian University)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
• 17:00 - From ‘closedness’ to ‘closeness’: how changing community values sustains a traditional craft industry
  Dr Shilla Lee (Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Monday 20 November 2023

• 16:00 - Poverty and human development challenges in Arab countries
  Please book to attend in person.
  Dr Khalid Abu-Ismail (ESCWA)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 17:00 - Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture 2023 | Who Gets Believed? A conversation with Dina Nayeri
  Dina Nayeri (University of St Andrews)
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures

Tuesday 21 November 2023

• 12:30 - Book talk: 'The power of platforms: shaping media and society'
  Professor Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (Director, Oxford Martin Programme on Misinformation, Science and Media)
  Oxford Martin School Events
• 14:00 - Migration, Caste, and the Figure of the 'Coolie' in Indian Diplomatic History
  Kalathmika Natarajan (University of Exeter)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 16:00 - They Cry Liberty: Imperial Crisis and Revolution in Atlantic Africa
  Bronwen Everill (University of Cambridge)
  American History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Rethinking the Eastern Mediterranean in a volatile world
  In person and online. To attend online, please register with Zoom. Booking not required if attending in person.
  Alexander Clarkson (King's College London), Constantinos Filis (American College of Greece), Manal Shehabi (Faculty of Middle Eastern Studies, Oxford)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
• 17:30 - Panel Discussion on Economic Diplomacy in a Multipolar World (Online)
  Dr. Alex Vines OBE (Chatham House), Hannah Grupp (World Bank), Nicolas Lippolis (University of Oxford), Dr. Emmanuel Ikechukwu Umeonyirihoa (Organization of African Academic Doctors)
• 18:00 - Is the existential threat of AI overhyped?
  In-person tickets have now sold out, and the waitlist is full. Therefore please register to attend online via Zoom webinar
  Professor John Tasioulas (University of Oxford), Professor Helen Margetts (University of Oxford), Dr Caroline Green (Oxford), Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt, Dr Alex (Connock), Professor Jakob (Foerster)
• 20:30 - Climate, Defence, and Security: Weird Bedfellows?
  TBA

Wednesday 22 November 2023

• 11:00 - History's Masters: The Effect of European Monarchs on State Performance
  Nico Voigtlaender (UCLA)
  Political Economy Seminar
• 12:00 - Trustworthiness as Reputation in International Cooperation-building: Implications for US–China Relations
  Professor Shiping Tang (Fudan University)
  China Centre talks
• 15:00 - The Technology Private Sector as a site of US-China Competition
  Discussion Group, Virginia Nizza (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 16:30 - BOOK LAUNCH: Controlling the Capital: Political Dominance in the Urbanizing World (Oxford University Press)
  Professor Tom Goodfellow (University of Sheffield), Dr David Jackman (Oxford Department of International Development)
• 17:00 - Can international law make a difference in time of war?
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Sir Christopher Greenwood (University of Cambridge)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - The invisible minorities of the Balkans: Challenges and prospects
  Evangelos Areteos (MOHA Research Center), Sara Kuehn (University of Vienna), Giorgos Mavrommatis (University of Thrace, Greece), Ayse Karahuseyinoglu (Greek Thrace Alevi Committee)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
• 17:30 - Blavatnik Book Talks: The Future of Foreign Policy is Feminist
  Maya Tudor (BSG, Oxford), Kristina Lunz (Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy)
• 17:30 - Harriet Harman MP in conversation
  David Isaac CBE, The Rt. Hon Harriet Harman, QC MP.
  Provost's Role Models

Thursday 23 November 2023

• 13:00 - My Halide Edib
  Meryem Kalayci
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].

Friday 24 November 2023

• 14:00 - The Constitution of China
  https://unioxfordnexus-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/personal/magd4621_ox_ac_uk/EeZxy2xxhXFMgCcmA6nUHikBK18lmmeXN9tA7Tkbq4J4MA?e=1B5mIQ for termcard.
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group
• 16:00 - Capitalism and Empire: Europe's Hinterlands and its Oceanic Empires
  Professor Richard Drayton (KCL)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - What have the Arab Uprisings done to “Contemporary Arab Thought”?
  Professor Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab (Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Qatar)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Kabuki music and compositions
  Denjiro Tanaka VII and associates (Denjiro Tanaka VII and associates)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Monday 27 November 2023

• 12:00 - The Dragon Roars Back: Transformational Leaders and Dynamics of Chinese Foreign Policy
  Professor Suisheng Zhao (University of Denver)
  China Centre talks
• 17:00 - Modern Arab Kingship – Remaking the Ottoman Political Order in the Interwar Middle East
  Adam Mestyan (Duke University)
  Middle East Centre Tuesday Book Launch (Book Talk)

Tuesday 28 November 2023

• 12:00 - The Politics of Promotion and Survival in China's Foreign Affairs System
  Dr Tyler Jost (Brown University)
  China Centre talks
• 14:00 - Rethinking urban resistance as sites for rebuilding differential solidarities
  Papia Sen Gupta (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Suffrage Skeptics and Realists: A History of Reluctant Endorsements of Woman Suffrage in the United States, 1840s-1920
  Helene Quanquin (Université de Lille)
  American History Research Seminar
• 16:15 - Capital Accumulation, Racialisation and the Politics of Ecocide
  All welcome. Please register (hybrid event)
  TBA
• 17:00 - Mirjana Spoljaric: From Ukraine to Syria – the challenges of humanitarian action in today’s intractable conflicts
  Mirjana Spoljaric (International Committee of the Red Cross)
• 17:00 - The curse of Empire: Russia’s war against Ukraine
  Martin Schulze Wessel (Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich), Gwendolyn Sasse (Nuffield College, Oxford)
  ESC Core Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The History of the EU: a conversation with Professor Dermot Hodson
  Professor Dermot Hodson (University of Loughborough)
• 20:30 - Mental Health and the Moral Component of Warfighting
  Attendees are also invited to join a wine reception starting at 8pm.
  TBA

Wednesday 29 November 2023

• 11:00 - “Exporting the Surveillance State via Trade in AI" with Martin Beraja, Andrew Kao, David Y. Yang
  Noam Yuchtman (University of Oxford)
  Political Economy Seminar
• 15:00 - Current Issues in Educating Public Officials about Emerging Technologies
  Followed by a pub social
  Discussion Group
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 16:00 - In conversation with Lord Chancellor Patten on EU foreign policy.
  TBA
• 16:30 - Moldova's Foreign Policy in a Shifting Geopolitical Landscape
  The speaker will join via Zoom.
  Dorin Recean (Prime Minister of the Republic of Moldova)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series
• 17:00 - Refugee Protection and AAA and others (2023-4) | Panel 2: Borders, Racialisation, and Refugee Protection in Rwanda
  Michael Collyer (University of Sussex), Dr Frank Habineza MP (Member of Rwandan Parliament 2018-2023 and Founding President of the Democratic Green Party of Rwanda), Dr Felix Ndahinda (Researcher and Consultant), Dr Uttara Shahani (University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:15 - The Wehrmacht and the Waffen-SS: in lockstep for Hitler?
  Ben Shepherd (Glasgow)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 30 November 2023

• 13:00 - Writing Queer History (or trying to)
  Matt Cook
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 16:00 - After ChatGPT: What do we know about generative AI one year in?
  Online via Teams
  Dominik Lukes (Centre for Teaching and Learning, University of Oxford)
• 17:00 - Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders
  This seminar will be held on Thursday, 30 November
  Prof Ayse Zarakol (University of Cambridge)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Race for 'Frozen Garlic': Assessing Taiwan's 2024 Elections
  Dr Jonathan Sullivan (University of Nottingham), Dr Mariah Thornton (LSE), Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford), Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Taiwan Studies Programme

Friday 1 December 2023

• 09:30 - Britain's Paraconstitution: The (In)Efficient Secret of Governance
  Registration required.
  Jesse Norman MP, Colin Kidd (St Andrews), Discussant: Rachel Wolf, Discussant: Jim Gallagher, Sam Freedman, Discussant: Robert Lisvane
• 14:00 - The PRC and the South China Sea in the 2010s and 2020s
  https://unioxfordnexus-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/personal/magd4621_ox_ac_uk/EeZxy2xxhXFMgCcmA6nUHikBK18lmmeXN9tA7Tkbq4J4MA?e=1B5mIQ for termcard.
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group
• 15:00 - How Nudging Upsets Autonomy
  Professor David Enoch (University of Oxford), Professor Thomas Douglas (Oxford)
  Practical Ethics and Law Lectures
• 16:00 - The Offstage Storm? Decolonization and the Politics of Democracy in Post-war Western Europe
  Professor Martin Conway (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Reconsidering the 60s generation in the Arab world and beyond
  Professor Yoav di Capua (The University of Texas at Austin)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Geoeconomic implications of the Japan-EU Relations – trade, digitalization and sustainability
  Prof. Patrik Ström (Stockholm School of Economics)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Monday 4 December 2023

• 16:00 - To See is to Act: What the Death of a Migrant Worker Can Tell Us About Humanity
  Film screening and discussion with Director
  Tsai Tsung-lung (National Chung Cheng University)
  Oxford Taiwan Studies Programme

Wednesday 6 December 2023

• 09:00 - COP28 Briefing: Experts from the Oxford Smith School Live from Dubai and Oxford during COP28
  Dr Steve Smith (Executive Director, Oxford Net Zero and CO2RE, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment), Alexis McGivern (Net Zero Standards Manager, Oxford Net Zero), David Shukman (British Journalist and former science editor, BBC), Injy Johnstone (Research Associate in Net Zero Aligned Offsetting, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment)
• 18:00 - Blavatnik Book Talks: The Christian Right in Europe: Movements, Networks, and Denominations
  Gionathan Lo Mascolo (Fellow at the Center for Analysis of the Radical Right), Anja Henning (European University Viadrina), Marietta van der Tol (Blavatnik School of Government)

Thursday 14 December 2023

• 13:00 - Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 4 (#PhiDisSocCh4)
  This event is online only.
  Various Speakers

Monday 15 January 2024

• 17:00 - Considering the Political Options in Gaza After Three Months of War
  Professor Walter Armbrust (St Antony’s College), Dr Maryam Alemzadeh (St Antony's College, University of Oxford), Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, Oxford), Raihan Ismail (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
• 17:00 - US–China Competition: Risks without Rewards?
  Professor Ashley J. Tellis (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)
  China Centre talks

Tuesday 16 January 2024

• 12:30 - Panel discussion: 'Post-COP28 debrief: Does the agreement go far enough?'
  In-person registration now fully booked. Online attendance still available.
  Professor Benito Müller (Oxford Climate Policy), Professor Myles Allen (Environmental Change Institute, University Of Oxford), Dr Abrar Chaudhury (Said Business School), Dr Nicola Ranger (Executive Director, Oxford Martin Systemic Resilience Programme), Professor Mette Morsing (Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford)
  Oxford Martin School Events
• 14:00 - Thirty seconds at Quetta: Time and disaster on the North-West Frontier, 1935
  Dan Haines (UCL)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 17 January 2024

• 11:00 - Curtailing False News, Amplifying Truth
  Ekaterina Zhuravskaya (Paris School of Economics)
  Political Economy Seminar
• 15:00 - Compute as a Critical Resource
  Discussion Group
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 17:00 - Civilian Casualties in War
  Professor Neta Crawford (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 18 January 2024

• 14:00 - Criminal Crossroads: Underworld Dynamics in Contemporary Japan
  Dr Martina Baradel (University of Oxford)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
• 17:00 - Hindutva and the Problem of Hinduism
  Luna Sabastian (Northeastern University London)
  Modern History Research Seminar

Friday 19 January 2024

• 15:00 - My body, my choice: exploring the limits of consent
  Alex Ruck Keene KC (Hon) (39 Essex Chambers)
  Practical Ethics and Law Lectures
• 15:30 - Leading for Impact: Refugee Entrepreneurs’ Innovation and Impact
  Dr Asma Naimi (Changemaker Studio), Professor Farah Koedeih (IESEG School of Management), Prof. Marya Besharov (University of Oxford)
  Insights for Action
• 16:00 - Indigenous Rights in Settler Colonies
  Professor Saliha Belmessous (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 22 January 2024

• 12:45 - How to measure media freedom using the text of news wire: text analysis and language models
  Christopher Barrie (University of Edinburgh)
  Sociology Department Weekly Seminar
• 17:00 - Israeli Public Opinion and Political Options after 7 October
  Professor Yuli Tamir (Beit Berl College)

Tuesday 23 January 2024

• 14:00 - The Rājā Yogī through the ages: Ascetic Sovereignty in India
  Jim Mallinson (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Southeast Asian Immigrants in Taiwan
  Professor Amy Liu (University of Texas at Austin)
  ASEAN Institute Seminar Series 2024
• 17:00 - Providence & Posterity
  Dr Paul Seaward
  Carlyle Lectures in the History of Political Thought 2024: Clarendon and the Practice of Politics
• 17:00 - Refugee protection in Europe: Some contemporary challenges
  Chair: Othon Anastasakis (St Antony's College, Oxford)
  Dr Catherine Briddick (University of Oxford), Steven Haines (University of Greenwich)
  European Studies Seminar

Wednesday 24 January 2024

• 11:00 - The Consequences of Eastern European Slavery
  Ranjit Lall (University of Oxford)
  Political Economy Seminar
• 14:00 - When Politics Trumps Merit: The Politics of Workplace Cooperation
  For those attending in-person, the entrance to CESS is located at George Street Mews and you will need to ring the bell when you have arrived.
  Luis Cornago Bonal (Oxford), Francesco Raffaelli (University of Oxford)
  CESS Colloquium Series
• 15:00 - Military AI & Nuclear Security
  Noah Greene (Center for a New American Security)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 17:00 - Khilafat and the Pan-Islamic Imagination
  Professor Faisal Devji (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:15 - Leuthen: Legacy and Myth
  Thomas G Otte (UEA)
  History of War Seminar Series
• 17:30 - Principal's Conversations: Siddarth Shrikanth
  Mr John Bowers KC (Principal, Brasenose College, Oxford), Siddarth Shrikanth

Thursday 25 January 2024

• 14:00 - Sensory Perception: Cultural Exchange, Development and Understanding
  Miss Nicole Watson (Director of Surface Area Dance Company)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
• 15:45 - ‘Cost-of-living’ Crisis For All; Help Only For Some
  Ilona Pinter (CASE, LSE)
• 17:00 - Hotel Lux: Writing an Intimate History of the Comintern’s Moscow Dormitory, 1924-1929
  Maurice Casey (Queens, Belfast)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Post-Election Analysis of Taiwan’s 2024 Elections
  Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford), Dr Monique Chu (University of Southampton), Dr Michael Reilly (University of Nottingham)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:00 - Film Screening and Discussion: SPACES OF EXCEPTION dir. Matt Peterson and Malek Rasamny, 2019 United States/Lebanon
  Malek Rasamny (Documentary Filmmaker)

Friday 26 January 2024

• 16:00 - Post-War Economic Asianism? China, India and the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East, c. 1947-1950
  Dr Yui Chim Lo (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 16:00 - How an Embassy contributes to Science Diplomacy
  Dr. Minh-Hà PHAM (Counsellor for Science and Technology at French Embassy in the United Kingdom)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series

Monday 29 January 2024

• 17:00 - The Settler Movement, Political Impasses, and Beyond
  Prof Hagar Kotef (SOAS University of London)

Tuesday 30 January 2024

• 14:00 - An Anthropology of 'Sovereignty'. New Land Markets, an Entrepreneurial State and the Aspirations of a ‘Criminal Caste’ in Gurgaon, Haryana
  Sanjay Srivastava (SOAS)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Conscience and Honour
  Dr Paul Seaward
  Carlyle Lectures in the History of Political Thought 2024: Clarendon and the Practice of Politics
• 17:00 - Covid-19 pandemic; lessons learned, challenges and opportunities for health policy and regulatory changes in the European Union
  Andrzej Rys (EU Visiting Fellow, St Antony’s College, Oxford), Dipak Kalra (The European Institute for Innovation through Health Data)
  European Studies Seminar

Wednesday 31 January 2024

• 11:00 - The Incentives to (Not) Debate in Low Information Races
  Kate Casey (Stanford)
  Political Economy Seminar
• 15:00 - Democratization of AI & Global Equity in Technology
  Discussion Group
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 17:00 - Medieval Syria and the Onset of the Crusades: The Political World of Bilad al-Sham 1050-1128
  Dr James WIlson (University of Konstanz)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 1 February 2024

• 14:00 - Affect, Emotion and Sensibility in Modern Japanese Literature
  Professor Reiko Abe Auestad (University of Oslo)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
• 16:15 - Expropriation as Reparation
  Dr Shuk Ying Chan (UCL)
  Interdisciplinary Seminars on Empire
• 17:00 - Unsafe Harbour: A Political Ecology of Postwar Marseille
  Venus Bivar (Oxford)
  Modern History Research Seminar

Friday 2 February 2024

• 11:00 - Attitudes to Migration and Patterns of Discrimination: Findings from Japan, the UK, Colombia, and Peru
  Dr Adam Komisarof (Keio University), Mariña Fernández-Reino (COMPAS, University of Oxford), Dr William L Allen (DPIR, University of Oxford), Professor Robin Cohen (Emeritus Professor of Development Studies)
• 16:00 - Lever Brothers' Plantations in the Pacific Islands, 1895-1942
  Dr Hohee Cho (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 5 February 2024

• 17:00 - Genocide and Accountability in Gaza: The Limits and Potential of International Law
  Prof Noura Erakat (Rutgers)

Tuesday 6 February 2024

• 14:00 - Comparative understanding of climate change news audiences across eight countries
  Dr Waqas Ejaz (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - COVID-19 Responses in Philippines and Indonesia
  Professor Sarah Shair-Rosenfield (University of York)
  ASEAN Institute Seminar Series 2024
• 17:00 - Skill and Uningenuity
  Dr Paul Seaward
  Carlyle Lectures in the History of Political Thought 2024: Clarendon and the Practice of Politics
• 17:00 - Paella pans and petrol cans: Noise-making and Charivari in contemporary Spain
  Matthew Kerry (Jesus College, Oxford), Tom Buchanan (University of Oxford)
  European Studies Seminar
• 17:00 - The 'Strategic Partnership' between China and the European Union after Twenty Years: Drivers of Change and Continuity
  John Farnell (University of Oxford)
  China Centre talks

Wednesday 7 February 2024

• 11:00 - National Identity, Public Goods, and Modern Economic Development
  Stergios Skaperdas (UC Irvine)
  Political Economy Seminar
• 15:00 - Tracing transformation in Intelligence: Open-Source Intelligence and AI
  Angeliki Martinou (Brunel Center for Intelligence and Security Studies)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 17:00 - Britain and the Muslim World: New Partnerships with Old Friends
  The Lord Ricketts of Shortlands
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies - Events
• 17:00 - Blavatnik Book Talks: Our Future: A Green Manifesto for Latin America and the Caribbean
  Dr Juan Pablo Orjuela (University of Oxford), Iván Duque Márquez, Professor Karthik Ramanna (Blavatnik School of Government)
• 17:00 - Zooming in on the digital aspects of the Indonesian election
  Licinia Guttel (Oxford Internet Institute), Justin Yeung (Oxford Internet Institute), Diyi Liu (Oxford Internet Institute), Dr Rizal Shidiq (Leiden University)
• 17:15 - The Experiences of Refugees during the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648)
  Thomas Pert (Warwick)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 8 February 2024

• 14:00 - Memories of Cinema-Going in Postwar Japan: An Ethno-History
  Professor Jennifer Coates (University of Sheffield)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
• 16:30 - Online Diplomatic Participation Using Diplotainment: A Conceptual Exploration and Illustrative Analysis
  Dr Pawel Surowiec-Capell (University of Sheffield)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series
• 17:00 - Ernest Bevin (1881-1951): political biography and grand international narrative
  Anne Deighton (Oxford)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - What to do if and when AI steals your job: staying employed in the finance sector and beyond with Paul Donovan
  Paul (Donovan)
• 18:00 - John Ikenberry: Does the Liberal International Order have a Future?
  John Ikenberry (Princeton University)

Friday 9 February 2024

• 15:30 - Meaningful Impact Measurement
  Prof. Marya Besharov (University of Oxford), Karim Harji (Saïd Business School), Jeremy Spafford (Old Fire Station)
  Insights for Action
• 16:00 - Unravelling the Enigma of Penis Captivus in Zimbabwe: A historical Odyssey of a Medical Mystery and Urban legend
  Dr Kudakwashe Chitofiri (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Saturday 10 February 2024

• 10:00 - Sudanese Diaspora: Their Role in Sudan and South Sudan
  Professor Munzoul Abdalla Assal (Bergen University), Dr Eva Khair (University of Cambridge), Dr Salma Abdalla (Raad Peace Research Institute, Amman, Jordan), Iman Federico Awi (University of Leeds), Cllr Muna Adam (Labour Councillor for Royal Borough of Chelsea and Kensington, London; & Founder & Director of Shaman PR), Mr Elhag Paul (Activist, Journalist and Trustee, The Sudanese Programme), Ms Abiol Lual Deng (Political Scientist and International Relations expert), Mr Hashim Mohammed Ahmed (Civil Engineering Consultant; President of the Sudanese Engineers Trade Union in the UK & Ireland), Nadia Awad (Reporter, Radio Dabanga)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series

Monday 12 February 2024

• 17:00 - MEC X ESC Panel Discussion: The Debate on Recognition of Palestine
  Chris Doyle (CAABU), Alon Liel (Policy Working Group), Haizam Amirah Fernández (Elcano Royal Institute)
  MEC SEMINAR SERIES
• 17:00 - Recognizing Palestinian Statehood: European views
  IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE MIDDLE EAST CENTRE
  Chris Doyle (Council for Arab-British Understanding), Alon Liel (Policy Working Group - Israel), Haizam Amirah Fernández (Elcano Royal Institute)
  European Studies Seminar
• 18:00 - Blavatnik Election Briefing: Pakistan Votes - Exploring the key issues that will determine Pakistan’s future
  Maya Tudor (BSG, Oxford), Dr Adeel Malik (Globe Fellow, Islamic Centre Lecturer in the Economies of Muslim Societies), Raza Ahmed Rumi (Writer)

Tuesday 13 February 2024

• 14:00 - The value of difference: Hindu Muslim encounters in Karachi, Pakistan
  Ammara Maqsood (UCL)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Shifting Allegiances: The Election of Latino Republicans to Congress and State Legislatures
  Jason Casellas (University of Houston)
• 17:00 - Energy transition, financial markets and new EU interventionism
  Federica Genovese (St Antony’s College, Oxford), Dr Tom Hale (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University)
  European Studies Seminar
• 17:00 - Ancient Landmarks
  Dr Paul Seaward
  Carlyle Lectures in the History of Political Thought 2024: Clarendon and the Practice of Politics
• 17:00 - The Gender Effect in Intra-Party Meritocracy (with Rabia Kutlu).
  Dr Tugba Bozcaga (EIS)
  JOINT Middle East Politics & Women's Rights Research Seminar
• 17:30 - LGBT+ History Month: Q&A with Tom Crewe
  Tom Crewe

Wednesday 14 February 2024

• 11:00 - Tailored Stories
  Chiara Aina (Harvard University)
  Political Economy Seminar
• 15:00 - Cyber Strategy & Technology Studies Working Group: Week 5 - Supply Chain Politics for Emerging Technologies
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 17:00 - Muslim Justice Under Christian Rule: The Banū Rajā’ Qādīs of Norman Sicily
  Professor Jeremy Johns (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Freedom Undone: The Assault on Liberal Values and Institutions in Hong Kong
  Professor Michael C Davis (Wilson Center)
  China Centre talks

Thursday 15 February 2024

• 13:00 - Penises in Captivity: Myth and Folklore
  Kudakwashe Chitofiri
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 14:00 - Language as a Technology for Shaping Professional Identity: Translating ‘A Manual of the Steam Engine’ in Mid-Nineteenth Century Japan
  Dr Ruselle Meade (Cardiff University)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
• 16:45 - Artery: Entanglements of Race and Nature in Fluvial Colombia
  Please note that due to construction work this event will now take place in the Chester Room
  Dr Austin Zeiderman (LSE)
  Interdisciplinary Seminars on Empire
• 17:00 - A Quest for Purity: vegetarianism between Europe, South Asia, and the United States (c. 1850–1957)
  Julia Hauser (Kassel)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Talking to Anyone for the Good of Everyone: Diplomacy in a Multipolar World
  HE Sayyid Badr Albusaidi (Foreign Minister of the Sultanate of Oman)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies - Events

Friday 16 February 2024

• 15:00 - The Rule of Law after the Anthropocene
  Professor Vincent Chiao (University of Toronto)
  Uehiro Practical Ethics and Law Lectures
• 16:00 - A Prophet Disarmed: Islam, Insult, and Injury
  Professor Faisal Devji (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 19 February 2024

• 17:00 - The inequality of wealth
  In-person attendance now fully booked. Online attendance still open.
  Rt. Hon. Liam Byrne MP (Chair, House of Commons Business and Trade Select Committee), Professor Brian Nolan (Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School), Professor Barbara Petrongolo (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Martin School Events
• 17:00 - Is a Binational State Possible After 7 October?
  Professor Avi Shlaim (MEC Emeritus Fellow), Ilan Pappe (University of Exeter)
• 17:30 - Professor Geoffrey Hinton - University of Oxford Romanes Lecture
  Professor Geoffrey Hinton

Tuesday 20 February 2024

• 12:05 - The Upside of US‒Chinese Strategic Competition: Institutional Balancing and Order Transition in the Asia Pacific
  Professor Kai He (Griffith University)
  China Centre talks
• 12:30 - Green Impact Day
  Various Speakers
• 14:00 - Towards an Anthropology of Answers: The Lost Trajectories of the Racialized Colonial Domestic Workers in South India and Beyond.’
  Shalini Grover (LSE)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Special Lecture - 1848 in the Rear-View Mirror: Resonances of 19th Century Revolution
  Please note this lecture is on Tuesday 20 February at Worcester College
  Christopher Clark (University of Cambridge)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Authoritarian Politics in Thailand
  Dr Petra Alderman (University of Birmingham)
  ASEAN Institute Seminar Series 2024
• 17:00 - Religion and Policy
  Dr Paul Seaward
  Carlyle Lectures in the History of Political Thought 2024: Clarendon and the Practice of Politics
• 17:00 - Centralisation, state intervention and the redistribution of power in energy markets
  Jose Maria Valenzuela (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Energy Seminars 2023-24
• 17:00 - What explains the enduring success of far-right parties in Europe?
  Katja Salomo (St Antony’s College, Oxford)
  European Studies Seminar
• 17:00 - The Afterlife Goes On: The Consequences of Women’s Participation in the 2011 Egyptian Uprising
  Dr Nermin Allam (Rutgers University)
  JOINT Middle East Politics & Women's Rights Research Seminar

Wednesday 21 February 2024

• 11:00 - Strategic storytelling: the interplay of pictures and text in press coverage
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Giulia Caprini (University of Oxford)
  Political Economy Seminar
• 11:00 - Zero-sum Thinking, the Evolution of Effort-Suppressing Beliefs, and Economic Development
  Jean-Paul Carvalho (University of Oxford)
  Political Economy Seminar
• 15:00 - Cyber Strategy & Technology Studies Working Group: Week 6 - Mapping the State of Judicial Technology & Policy in China
  Lujain Ibrahim (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 17:00 - From the Higher Objectives of Islamic Law to the Higher Objectives of Islamic Theology
  Dr Mohammed Gamal Abdelnour (SOAS, University of London)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Why governments need scientists
  In-person attendance now fully booked. Online attendance still open.
  Sir Patrick Vallance (Former Government Chief Scientific Adviser (2018-2023))
  Oxford Martin School Events
• 17:15 - Culpability and conscience in civil war: A new history of armed treason in England, 1199-1352
  Sophie Ambler (Lancaster)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 22 February 2024

• 13:00 - Queering the Middle Ages and Student Life in 19th to 20th Century Oxford
  Dominic Janes (Keele)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 14:00 - Eleven Winters of Discontent: The Siberian Internment and the Making of a New Japan
  Professor Sherzod Muminov (University of East Anglia)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
• 17:00 - France on Trial: the case of Marshall Petain
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Julian Jackson (QMUL)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Building European defence through crises
  Based on of the publication of her latest book 'The Evolution of the Common Security and Defence Policy: Critical Junctures and the Quest for EU Strategic Autonomy', Palgrave MacMillan 2022
  Marilena Koppa (Panteion University, Athens)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
• 17:00 - Costa Rica's Trail: Policy lessons in trade, Environmental Stewardship, and Science Diplomacy
  Andres Valenciano Yamuna (UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean), María Estelí Jarquín (International Relations Coordinator at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH)), HE Mr Rafael Ortiz Fábrega (Ambassador of Costa Rica to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), Dr Thomas Hale (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford), Dr Amir Lebdioui (University of Oxford)

Friday 23 February 2024

• 16:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  TBA
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 16:30 - Rethinking Climate Change and Migration: From Victims to Agents of Change
  Raul Hinojosa-Ojeda (University of California, Los Angeles), Yvonne Su (York University)

Monday 26 February 2024

• 12:30 - Book talk: 'Not the end of the world: how we can be the first generation to build a sustainable planet'
  In-person attendance fully booked. Online attendance still available.
  Dr Hannah Ritchie (Head of Research, Our World in Data), Professor Sir Charles Godfray (Director, Oxford Martin School)
  Oxford Martin School Events
• 17:00 - Rebuilding From the Rubble Yet Again: Whither the Fourth Phase of Palestinian Collective Action?
  Prof Beshara Doumani (Brown University)
• 18:00 - The New Era of Digital Diplomacy: The Future of AI and the Metaverse for International Relations
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable online. Those attending in-person should use the entrance on Jowett Walk, which will be open from 17:50-18:00. Those attending online should email mscggd-admin@qeh.ox.ac.uk for the meeting link.
  Dr. Martin Waehlisch (United Nations Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series

Tuesday 27 February 2024

• 14:00 - Temporary Exhibits: The Cultural Politics of South Asian ‘Folk’ Performances in Contemporary Fairs and Festivals
  Priyanka Basu (Kings College London)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The Implications of Taiwan's 2024 Election on its Relations with Southeast Asia
  Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford)
  ASEAN Institute Seminar Series 2024
• 17:00 - Wildness and Illimitedness
  Dr Paul Seaward
  Carlyle Lectures in the History of Political Thought 2024: Clarendon and the Practice of Politics
• 17:00 - Where you stand depends on where you sit: The challenge of being an academic turned Head of State
  Guðni Thorlacius Jóhannesson (President of Iceland)
  European Studies Seminar
• 17:00 - Blavatnik Election Briefings: Indonesia Votes - Understanding the Indonesian Election: Lessons from the World's Third-Largest Democracy
  This is a hybrid event.
  Various Speakers
• 17:15 - Panel Discussion: 'The great carbon market debate: is it over for offsetting?'
  In-person attendance fully booked. Online attendance still available.
  Professor Mette Morsing (Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford), Prof Myles Allen (School of Geography and the Environment), Sabine Frank (Carbon Market Watch), Lydia Sheldrake (Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiative (VCMI)), Kaya Axelsson (Oxford Net Zero)
  Oxford Martin School Events

Wednesday 28 February 2024

• 11:00 - Individualism, Identity, and Institutional Stability: Evidence from First Names in Germany, 1700-1850
  Davide Cantoni (University of Munich)
  Political Economy Seminar
• 15:00 - “Explainable AI” & Black Boxes within Black Boxes
  Discussion Group
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 17:00 - The First Friday Sermons of Islam as a Nexus of Piety, Ethics, and Politics
  Professor Tahera Qutbuddin (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:30 - Principal's Conversations: James Johnson
  Mr John Bowers KC (Principal, Brasenose College, Oxford), James Johnson (JL Partners)

Thursday 29 February 2024

• 12:00 - This Monk Wears Heels – Buddhism and Sexuality
  Ven. Kodo Nishimura (Artist, Buddhist Monk, and LGBTQ+ Activist)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
• 16:00 - Global and Imperial History graduate student research presentations
  Various Speakers
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 16:15 - Empires as Imperial Debt Formations, International Order as Complex Indebtedness
  Dr Meera Sabaratnam (New College, Oxford)
  Interdisciplinary Seminars on Empire
• 17:00 - What are hate pictures against Jews? Understanding the visual history of Antisemitism
  Uffa Jensen (Technical University, Berlin)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Colonizing Palestine: the Zionist Left and the Making of the Palestinian Nakba’
  Dr. Areej Sabbagh-Khoury (Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Friday 1 March 2024

• 16:00 - Global and Imperial History graduate student research presentations
  Various Speakers
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - "The Journey to 30 by 30"
  Annual Heron-Allen Lecture 2024
  Professor Jonathan Baillie
• 17:30 - Ukraine: From Russian colony to European identity
  Żanna Słoniowska
  Mansfield Public Talks

Monday 4 March 2024

• 12:00 - Wild Ride: A Short History of the Opening and Closing of the Chinese Economy
  Anne Stevenson-Yang (J Capital Research USA LLC)
  China Centre talks
• 12:30 - Webs of oppression’ in everyday organizing in Palestine: An Intersectional Feminist Analysis
  Lunch will be provided for this session
  Amal W Nazzal (Assistant Professor at Birzeit University, Palestine)
  MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars
• 16:30 - 2023 Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics: Knowledge and Achievement as Organic Goods (1/3)
  Professor Thomas Hurka
  Annual Uehiro Lectures
• 17:00 - After Gaza: The Promise and Peril of Pax Americana
  Marwan Bishara (Al Jazeera)
• 17:00 - Where next for the Anglo-American 'Special Relationship'?
  Open only to University members- Registration required!
  Deputy Chief of Mission Matthew Palmer (U.S. Embassy and Consulates in The United Kingdom)

Tuesday 5 March 2024

• 17:00 - Khon Nai Khon Thai (Who is Thai)? Ethnic Boundary Making and the Thai National Identity
  Professor Jacob Ricks (Singapore Management University)
  ASEAN Institute Seminar Series 2024
• 17:00 - MEC BOOK TALK - Revolution Squared: Tahrir, Political Possibilities, and Counterrevolution in Egypt
  Prof. Atef Said (University of Illinois at Chicago)
• 17:30 - A Panel Event on the Role of Diplomacy in Combatting Climate Change
  Professor Benito Müller (Oxford Climate Policy), Kaya Axelsson (Net Zero Policy Engagement Fellow, University of Oxford; former Vice-President of the Oxford Student Union), Andrew Francis (FCDO)

Wednesday 6 March 2024

• 15:00 - Lessons from a Case Study of Social Media Disinformation
  Discussion Group, Rutendo Chabikwa (Oxford Internet Institute)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 16:00 - Oxford Networks for the Environment (ONE) annual lecture: How to survive the Anthropocene: Flat Overshoot, Deep Restoration.
  Prof John Schellnhuber (Founding Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and incoming Director General of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA).)
• 16:30 - 2023 Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics: Degrees of Value in Knowledge and Achievement (2/3)
  Professor Thomas Hurka
  Annual Uehiro Lectures
• 17:00 - NATO 75th Anniversary: Time to retire or strengthen?
  Dr Seth Johnston (Harvard), Patrick Porter (Birmingham), Jonathan Shaw CBE
• 17:00 - Voices from the Miners’ Strike Forty Years On: Historians Robert Gildea and Jim Phillips in conversation with Patricia Clavin
  Please note this discussion is on Wednesday 6 March at Worcester College
  Robert Gildea, Jim Phillips, In conversation with Patricia Clavin
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Written in the Margins – Articulating Islam in Early Modern China
  Dr Dror Weil (University of Cambridge)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - The British China Story
  Professor Kerry Brown (King's College London)
  China Centre talks
• 18:00 - ‘The world found nothing sacred in the abstract nakedness of being human.’ On (not) seeing others as human.
  Professor Jonathan Wolff (Blavatnik School of Government), Anne Phillips (LSE), Dr Lior Erez (Blavatnik School of Government), Zofia Stemplowska (Oxford)

Thursday 7 March 2024

• 10:45 - Dreams and History Workshop
  Various Speakers
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 17:00 - The Changing Shapes of European History: The Modern European History Seminar since the 1980s
  Martin Conway (Oxford), Tom Buchanan (Oxford)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - A Preview Test Screening of a New Documentary Film - The Squid and the Pine by John Williams
  John Williams (Director)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
• 17:00 - Navigating world orders over five millennia: does the past offer clues to the future?
  Professor Amitav Acharya (UNESCO Chair in Transnational Challenges and Governance)
  Oxford Martin School Events

Friday 8 March 2024

• 16:00 - Global and Imperial History graduate student research presentations
  Various Speakers
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 16:30 - 2023 Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics: Knowledge and Achievement as Public Policy Goals (3/3)
  Professor Thomas Hurka
  Annual Uehiro Lectures
• 17:00 - The Story Smuggler, or how to narrate the 'happened' and the 'un-happened'. A conversation with Georgi Gospodinov
  IN ASSOCIATION WITH SEESOX
  Georgi Gospodinov (Writer, poet and playwright), Marilena Anastasopoulou (LSE), Paul Betts (St Antony's College, University of Oxford), Dessy Gavrilova (Cultural entrenpreneur)
  European Studies Seminar

Monday 11 March 2024

• 09:00 - The Free and Open Indo-Pacific: Japan's Strategic Vision Goes Global
  TBA
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Wednesday 13 March 2024

• 09:30 - Geopolitics and the Critique of Liberal Order: Two-Day Workshop
  Various Speakers
• 13:00 - Seminar: "Saving Ourselves: From Climate Shocks to Climate Action"
  Professor Dana Fisher (American University)
• 17:00 - From Space Internet to Cloud Computing: the future of big tech is in infrastructure
  Dr Corinne Cath (Delft University of Technology), Luc Rocher (University of Oxford), Yung Au (Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford University), Dr Ashwin Mathew (Kings College London)
• 17:00 - Blavatnik Election Briefings: Russia Votes - Examining the impact of another Putin presidency
  Sergei Guriev (SciencesPo), Professor Ngaire Woods (Dean, Blavatnik School of Government)
• 17:00 - The Geopolitical Challenge in International Relations ("Geopolitics and the Critique of Liberal Order" Workshop Keynote)
  Michael C. Williams (University of Ottawa)

Thursday 14 March 2024

• 17:00 - Book Launch: Wellbeing - Science and Policy
  Various Speakers

Friday 15 March 2024

• 16:15 - Building collaborations with Indigenous and Local Communities using Extreme Citizen Science
  Jerome Lewis (University College London)
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Monday 18 March 2024

• 17:30 - Reconciliation: a political possibility?
  Antje Jackelén (Archbishop emerita)

Monday 8 April 2024

• 12:00 - Thomas Schelling, the United States, and China’s Rise
  Professor Thomas J. Christensen (Columbia University)
  China Centre talks

Thursday 11 April 2024

• 16:00 - OxCGRT Seminar Series: Session One
  This event takes place online only.
  Professor Gina Gustavsson (Uppsala University, Sweden), Dr Marius Guderjan (Freie Universität Berlin), Professor Patrick Berghagen (University of Stuttgart), Dr Tom Hale (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University), Dr Anna Petherick (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford), Andrea Vaccaro (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford)
  OxCGRT Seminar Series

Thursday 18 April 2024

• 16:00 - OxCGRT Seminar Series: Session Two
  This event takes place online only.
  Dr Ruth Carlitz (University of Amsterdam), Professor Patrick Berghagen (University of Stuttgart), Dr Robin Harding (University of Oxford), Andrea Vaccaro (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford), Dr Tom Hale (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University), Dr Anna Petherick (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford)
  OxCGRT Seminar Series

Friday 19 April 2024

• 15:30 - Climate Changemaker Playbook Launch
  Professor Marya Besharov (University of Oxford), Pip Wheaton (Skoll Centre Visiting Fellow), Sue Riddlestone (Ashoka Fellow)
  Insights for Action

Tuesday 23 April 2024

• 14:00 - Networked Bollywood: How Star Power Globalized Hindi Cinema
  Swapnil Rai (University of Michigan)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 16:15 - Astor Visiting Fellow Lecture: Firms, Production Networks, and Trade
  Andrew B. Bernard (Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College)
• 17:00 - Southeast Asia between the Superpowers: Who is Where and Why?
  Professor Yuen Foong Khong (National University of Singapore)
  China Centre talks

Wednesday 24 April 2024

• 11:00 - International Power
  David Yang (Harvard University)
  Political Economy Seminar
• 15:00 - Oxford Technology & Security Nexus — AI in the Workplace and Employment Power Dynamics
  Nikki Sun (Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 17:00 - Crisis in the Sahel: Causes and Consequences for Africa, Europe and the Muslim World
  Dr Jonathan Guiffard (Institute Montaigne)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 25 April 2024

• 13:00 - The Challenges of Memorializing HIV/AIDS
  Pippa Catterall
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 16:00 - OxCGRT Seminar Series: Session Three
  This event takes place online only.
  Professor Frank Schimmelfennig (ETH Zürich), Angie Jo (MIT), Professor Stella Ladi (Queen Mary University of London), Professor Gina Gustavsson (Uppsala University, Sweden), Dr Tom Hale (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University), Dr Anna Petherick (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford), Andrea Vaccaro (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford)
  OxCGRT Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Carrying out High-Quality Qualitative Research: The Importance of Hard Choices - Methods in Social Policy and Intervention Research
  This is a hybrid event
  Professor Annette Lareau (University of Pennsylvania)
  DSPI Trinity Term 2024 Seminar Series
• 16:15 - Love as the Reason We Need Abortion
  Professor Elizabeth Harman (Princeton University)
  Annual Uehiro Lectures

Friday 26 April 2024

• 11:00 - Women's political agency and diplomatic practices in Denmark-Norway during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars
  Dr Kristine Dyrmann (University of Oxford)
  History of Gender Seminar
• 14:00 - LGBTQ Identity in China
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group
• 15:00 - Mental Capacity: Why it doesn't and shouldn't matter much in medical law and ethics
  Jonathan Herring (University of Oxford)
  Uehiro Practical Ethics and Law Lectures
• 17:00 - From the Maidan to Mariupol: Civil Resistance in Ukraine 1990-2024
  Please note change of venue
  Olga Onuch (University of Manchester)
  European Studies Seminar

Monday 29 April 2024

• 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
  Professor Alan Stein (University of Oxford), Kathleen Kahn (University of Witwatersrand Johannesburg), Steve Tollman (University of Witwatersrand Johannesburg)

Tuesday 30 April 2024

• 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)
• 17:00 - Restoring the rule of law in Poland: a particular or a universal challenge?
  Marek Safjan (Former senior Polish and European judge)
  LESZEK KOŁAKOWSKI LECTURE

Wednesday 1 May 2024

• 11:00 - Religion and Rise and Fall of Islamic Science
  Eric Chaney (University of Oxford)
  Political Economy Seminar
• 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

• 13:00 - How Significant Is the Other: Anglophone Couples of Scholars and the Making of a Transatlantic Social Science (1890-1940)
  Marie Linos (Oxford)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 16:00 - OxCGRT Seminar Series: Session Four
  This event takes place online only.
  Dr Francisco Pozo-Martin (Robert Koch Institute), Professor Julia Wang (National Taiwan University), Professor Philipp Trein (University of Lausanne), Professor Stella Ladi (Queen Mary University of London), Dr Tom Hale (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University), Dr Anna Petherick (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford), Andrea Vaccaro (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford)
  OxCGRT Seminar Series
• 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

• 11:00 - Health, gender, and embodiment in the Punjabi Print sphere (1898-1948)
  Nikita Azad (University of Oxford)
  History of Gender Seminar
• 14:00 - Rural Reconstruction
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group
• 17:00 - New Life From the Ruins of Japanese Death Rites
  Dr Hannah Gould (University of Melbourne)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
• 17:00 - Josep Borrell Fontelles 'Europe faced with two wars'
  Due to technical issues, this event will not be livestreamed.
  Josep Borrell (High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy)

Monday 6 May 2024

• 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

• 14:00 - Performing Sovereign Aspirations: Tamil Insurgency and Postwar Transition in Sri Lanka
  Bart Klem (Gothenburg University, Sweden)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 15:00 - African Studies Centre Annual Lecture - Transnational Feminism in an Age of Genocide
  Professor Amina Mama (University of California, Davis)
• 17:00 - Reflections on Tunisian Women’s Continued Fight for Respect, Dignity and Rights - Focus on Women in the Labour Movement
  Dr Heba El-Shazli (George Mason University)
  MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars
• 17:30 - Moving and building: local government and the climate challenge
  Livestream link: https://www.youtube.com/@stantonyscollegeuniversity2705/streams
  Mr Alex Sobel (MP) (Visiting Parliamentary Fellow), Mr Chris Skidmore (Visiting Parliamentary Fellow), Dr Thomas Hale (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford), Christopher Hammond (Chief Executive of UK100), Anna Railton (Oxford City Council), Pete Sudbury (Oxford County Council)
  St Antony's Visiting Parliamentary Fellowship
• 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

• 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 - Employment and Community: Socioeconomic Cooperation and Its Breakdown
  Prof. Daron Acemoglu (MIT Economics)
  Political Economy Seminar
• 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
• 17:00 - The Damascus Events Book Launch
  Book copies will be on sale at the discounted price of £20 - cash only please | Drinks reception will follow the book signing
  Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, Oxford)
  MEC SEMINAR SERIES
• 17:30 - Principal's Conversations: Con Coughlin
  Mr John Bowers KC (Principal, Brasenose College, Oxford), Con Coughlin

Thursday 9 May 2024

• 12:30 - I am constantly shocked by cases of blatant and unquestioned discrimination against women in every sphere of life’: the struggle to outlaw sex discrimination in Britain, 1966-1975
  Lyndsey Jenkins
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 16:00 - OxCGRT Seminar Series: Session Five
  This event takes place online only.
  Dr Kevin Bardosh (Collateral Global, University of Edinburgh and University of Washington), Dr Yuxi Zhang (University College London), Steven Kuan-Ju Chen (Cadmus International UK Ltd / National Taiwan University), Professor Philipp Trein (University of Lausanne), Dr Tom Hale (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University), Dr Anna Petherick (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford), Andrea Vaccaro (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford)
  OxCGRT Seminar Series
• 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

• 14:00 - Collaboration during the Second Sino-Japanese War
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group
• 17:00 - Making of the “Feebleminded”: Gender and Family for the Medical Discourse Around Eugenic Sterilization in 1950s Japan
  Dr Aya Homei (University of Manchester)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Monday 13 May 2024

• 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)
• 17:00 - Three Frontiers to one Boundary: The Making of the Ottoman-Iranian Boundary
  Please note change of venue to the MEC Boardroom (from the Investcorp Lecture Theatre)
  Professor Sabri Ates (Southern Methodist University)
  MEC SEMINAR SERIES

Tuesday 14 May 2024

• 09:00 - Oxford Migration Studies Society Conference: 'Transformation and Resilience'
  Seán Binder
• 11:00 - Dissecting the 1904 Entente cordiale agreements with Prof. Robert Frank (Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne)
  Robert Frank (Maison Française d'Oxford)
  Maison Française d'Oxford Events
• 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
• 17:30 - Brasenose College PPE Society event with John Bowers KC
  Mr John Bowers KC (Principal, Brasenose College, Oxford), Benjamin Surguy (Brasenose College)

Wednesday 15 May 2024

• 11:00 - Participation, Legitimacy and Fiscal Capacity in Weak States: Evidence from Participatory Budgeting
  Niccolò Meriggi (University of Oxford)
  Political Economy Seminar
• 12:00 - Made in China: When US-China Interests Converged to Transform Global Trade
  Dr Elizabeth Ingleson (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
• 17:00 - Offensive cyber operations under international law – an interactive case study
  Dr Pia Hüsch (RUSI)
• 17:30 - Gesture, language and thought
  Sotaro Kita (University of Warwick)
  IMCC Seminar Talks
• 18:00 - Election in Taiwan - STAIR Global Election Series
  Professor Dafydd Fell (SOAS)
  STAIR Global Election Series

Thursday 16 May 2024

• 13:00 - Materiality and Memorialisation in Queer Heritage
  This seminar has been cancelled.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Alison Oram
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 16:00 - OxCGRT Seminar Series: Session Six
  This event takes place online only.
  Angie Jo (MIT), Dr Kerim Can Kavakli (Bocconi University), Dr Marina Schenkel (Trinity College Dublin), Marjolaine Lamontagne (McGill University), Dr Tom Hale (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University), Dr Anna Petherick (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford), Andrea Vaccaro (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford)
  OxCGRT Seminar Series
• 17:30 - Frankland Visitor 2024: What the hell is going on with Reality and Truth?
  Joanna Kavenna, Eliane Glaser, Benjamin Markovits, Phil Tinline
• 17:30 - Rex Nettleford Lecture on Colonialism and its Legacies 2024
  Paul Gilroy

Friday 17 May 2024

• 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 - Consumerism in China
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group
• 15:30 - Roundtable and Discussion on Upheaval in Georgia
  Andrew Wilson (UCL), Mas Fras (LSE), Natalie Sabanadze (Chatham House), Eto Buziashvili (Atlantic Council), Saba Brachveli (Civil Society Foundation)
• 16:00 - Just energy transition in the Amazon: contributions and interdisciplinary dialogue between engineering, and human and social sciences
  This event is in Portuguese and English with simultaneous translation. This is a hybrid event but if you are attending in person please register for the online event too and bring a phone and headphones, as you will need this to hear the translation for parts of the event!
  TBA
  Climate Change and the Challenges of Development
• 16:15 - Climate Change and Rural Livelihoods in Ghana: the impacts, adaptations and barriers
  Prof. Philip Antwi-Agyei (Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology,)
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series
• 17:00 - Great Power Politics and Japan’s Immigration Dilemma
  Dr Anand Rao (SUNY Geneseo)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
• 17:00 - A Region-centric Approach to International Relations and Order in East Asia
  Evelyn Goh (Australian National University)
  Asian Studies Centre seminars and events
• 19:00 - Museums Late Night Water World
  Various Speakers
  Fair Water? Exhibition

Monday 20 May 2024

• 14:00 - Evaluating the Internet Governance Forum in a broader digital governance landscape
  Dorottya Zsiboracs (Oxford Internet Institute), Emily Taylor (DNS Research Federation), Georgia Osborn (DNS Research Federation)
• 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

• 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 - Ali Mirsepassi will be in conversation with Stephanie Cronin about his new book "The Loneliest Revolution: A Memoir of Solidarity and Struggle in Iran".
  Ali Mirsepassi (NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study)
  MEC SEMINAR SERIES
• 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 THE ESC
  Harris Mylonas (George Washington University), Joao Carlos Espada (Catolica, Lisbon), Ainhoa Campos Posada (Ramón Areces Visiting Fellow, St Antony’s College, Oxford)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
• 17:30 - A green and pleasant land for nature, food, energy, and people
  Livestream available on the St Antony's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@stantonyscollegeuniversity2705/streams
  Mr Chris Skidmore (Visiting Parliamentary Fellow), Mr Alex Sobel (MP) (Visiting Parliamentary Fellow), Dr Thomas Hale (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford), Mark Owen-Lloyd (Botley West Solar Farm), Minette Batters (Former President of the National Farmers' Union), Neil Kenward (Director of Strategy, Economics, Research and Net Zero (Ofgem)), Andy Egan (The Woodland Trust)
  St Antony's Visiting Parliamentary Fellowship

Wednesday 22 May 2024

• 11:00 - Political Trenches: War, Partisanship, and Polarization
  Saumitra Jha (Stanford University)
  Political Economy Seminar
• 13:00 - How is AI shaping the future of Digital Democracy?
  Elaine Ford (Oxford Internet Institute)
• 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 - Displacement and Documentary Film: A Conversation with Marc Isaacs
  Associate Professor Marc Isaacs (University College London)
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures
• 17:00 - Valedictory Lecture – A ‘Class’-Less Society Japan? How is Inequality Interpreted Without the Concept of Class?
  Professor Takehiko Kariya (University of Oxford)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
• 17:00 - Post-Globalism and the Ulama: Contestation of Authority
  Professor Raihan Ismail (St Antony's College)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - If Hong Kong is really over
  Dr Kim Wah Chung
  China Centre talks
• 17:30 - Audio-Visual Speech Source Separation
  TBA
  IMCC Seminar Talks
• 18:00 - Nationalism and War
  This is a hybrid event.
  Andreas Wimmer (Columbia), Dr Maya Tudor (Blavatnik School of Government)

Thursday 23 May 2024

• 09:30 - Day 1 - 2-Day Conference: 'The India-China Dispute: History, Politics and Law'
  Various Speakers
  Asian Studies Centre seminars and events
• 13:00 - Married lesbians and notions of love and selfhood in post-war Britain
  Rebecca Jennings
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 13:30 - CONFERENCE 'Michel Serres and Bruno Latour in conversation'
  Please note that the event will take place at the Maison Française d'Oxford and be livestreamed on Zoom.
  Various Speakers
  Maison Française d'Oxford Events
• 14:00 - Finally moving on? The Socialist Labour Party and the search for an electoral alternative to New Labour
  Alfie Steer (Hertford College, Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 16:00 - OxCGRT Seminar Series: Session Seven
  This event takes place online only.
  Dr Hanna-Tina Fischer (Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin), Dr Marina Kaneti (National University of Singapore), Dr Tom Hale (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University), Dr Anna Petherick (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford), Andrea Vaccaro (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford)
  OxCGRT Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Diffusion through multiple domains: The spread of romantic nationalism across Europe, 1770-1930
  Andreas Wimmer (Columbia)
• 17:15 - Radical hope: Reimagining capitalism for climate crisis
  Professor Cameron Hepburn, Professor Rebecca Henderson (Harvard University), Professor Mette Morsing (Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford)

Friday 24 May 2024

• 09:00 - Day 2 - 2-Day Conference: 'The India-China Dispute: History, Politics and Law'
  Various Speakers
  Asian Studies Centre seminars and events
• 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 - Right-Wing Discourse in Online Chinese Spaces
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group
• 17:00 - Book Launch – Reopening the Opening of Japan: Transnational Approaches to Modern Japan and the Wider World
  Professor Sho Konishi (University of Oxford), Dr Lewis Bremner (University of Cambridge), Dr Chinami Oka (University of Oxford), Dr Mateja Kovacic (Hong Kong Baptist University), Joel Littler (University of Oxford), Dr Manimporok (Brown University)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Tuesday 28 May 2024

• 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
  In association with the Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre (RESC)
  Randall Hansen (University of Toronto; Refugees Study Centre, Oxford), Catherine Briddick (St Antony's College, Oxford)
  European Studies Seminar
• 17:00 - Economic Diversification and Climate Change in the Middle East
  Associate Professor Dr Sarah Bush (University of Pennsylvania)
  Middle East Politics and WRRS joint series
• 17:00 - Uzbekistan: a roadmap to the future - Poverty reduction, cooperation and connectivity
  All guests are welcome to enjoy traditional Uzbek food after the seminar.
  Dr Obid Khakimov (Director of the Center for Economic Research and Reforms under the Administration of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan (CERR)), Professor Sabina Alkire (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative), Professor Adeel Malik (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 29 May 2024

• 11:00 - The Far-Right Donation Gap
  Julia Cage (Sciences Po)
  Political Economy Seminar
• 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
• 17:30 - Bridget Kendall in conversation
  Bridget Kendall, David Isaac CBE
  Provost's Role Models

Thursday 30 May 2024

• 13:00 - Long Live Queer Nightlife
  Amin Ghaziani
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 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 (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 16:00 - OxCGRT Seminar Series: Session Eight
  This event takes place online only.
  Marjolaine Lamontagne (McGill University), Professor Frank Schimmelfennig (ETH Zürich), Dr Marina Kaneti (National University of Singapore), Dr Hanna-Tina Fischer (Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin), Dr Tom Hale (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University), Dr Anna Petherick (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford), Andrea Vaccaro (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford)
  OxCGRT Seminar Series

Friday 31 May 2024

• 09:30 - The Third Oxford-Georgia Forum
  Full agenda: https://www.rees.ox.ac.uk/event/oxford-georgia-forum-2024?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3Jx50lqRrj6g37_VbnV4Lx2K9OqvpLpknVrf6Zf8x-yDYse2kYsjD3flE_aem_Acc1fVo-SYOaWJrtdbN1kav4p4sISqzwIzHFEy4QF3HfGEn88GxX2yXGniB2yhYVbHadN8EOEOyTKdMhu9ulDDzd
  Professor Paul Chaisty (University of Oxford), Dr Zbigniew Wojnowski (St Antony's College), Roy Allison (St Antony’s), Andrew Wilson (UCL), Max Fras (LSE), Teona Lomsadze (OSGA), Svetlana Berikashvili (OSGA), Alexander Sherborne (Oxford University Byzantine Society), Dr Anna Wilson (IMCC, University of Oxford), Stephen Jones (Harvard University), Alex Jackson (Harvard University), Lia Chokoshvili (OSGA), Margaret Miller, Ollie Matthews, Walker Thompson, Geoffrey Gosby, Clifford Marcus, Maya Jaggi, Dr Tamar Koplatadze (Moderator) (University of Oxford), Dr Maia Chankseliani (University of Oxford), Sophia Maisashvili (Georgian Society at Oxford), Luka Shanidze (University of Oxford), Miriam Yakobashvili (University of Oxford), Natalie Sabanadze (Chatham House)
• 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
• 17:00 - The Making of the Modern Muslim State: Islam and Governance in the Middle East and North Africa
  All welcome, no registration necessary, arrive early to secure your seat: Our MEC Boardroom in the Kirdar Building at 68 Woodstock Road has limited seating capacity.
  Malika Zeghal, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor in Contemporary Islamic Thought and Life (Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University)
  Contemporary Islamic Studies Programme

Monday 3 June 2024

• 17:00 - The Rise and Fall of Confederate Monuments: Memory and the American Civil War
  Professor Caroline Janney (University of Virginia)
• 17:00 - Documentary film screening: Antoine the Fortunate (WWI in the Ottoman Empire)
  Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford), Associate Professor Nefin Dinc (James Madison University)
  MEC SEMINAR SERIES

Tuesday 4 June 2024

• 13:00 - European Elections 2024: Examining Digital and Far-Right Dynamics
  Licinia Guttel (Oxford Internet Institute), Sir Julian King, Tarik Abou-Chadi (Nuffield College), Dr Donatella Bonansinga (University College London)
• 17:00 - Democracy of the last man: The politics of demographic imagination
  In association with SEESOX
  Ivan Krastev (Centre for Liberal Strategies, Bulgaria)
  The ESC Annual Lecture
• 17:00 - In conversation with the authors of Troublemaking
  Jamie Woodcock (Oxford Internet Institute), Lydia Hughes

Wednesday 5 June 2024

• 11:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Ernesto dal Bo (UC Berkeley)
  Political Economy Seminar
• 11:00 - 100 Years of Political Selection in the U.K
  Edgard Dewitte (University of Oxford)
  Political Economy Seminar
• 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

Thursday 6 June 2024

• 13:00 - Female Homosociality and Homosexuality in the Classical World (Joint meeting with the History Faculty LGBTQ Network Reading Group)
  Mara Gold
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].

Friday 7 June 2024

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

Monday 10 June 2024

• 15:30 - Transitional Justice and the Rio Negro Community in Guatemala
  Anna-Sophia (Richard), Joaquin (Ruano)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 16:00 - A Thousand Tiny Cuts: Mobility and Security across the Bangladesh-India Borderlands
  Dr Sahana Ghosh (National University of Singapore), Professor Ruben Andersson (University of Oxford), Professor David Gellner (School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford), Tasnia Nuran (Policy consultant and researcher)
• 17:00 - The role of a global multilateral development bank in the world today
  Dr Samuel Munzele Maimbo (World Bank)
  Oxford Martin School Events

Tuesday 11 June 2024

• 17:30 - Michael Cashman in conversation
  Michael Cashman, David Isaac CBE
  Provost's Role Models
• 18:00 - Blavatnik Election Briefings: India Votes - Exploring the impact of an election that will determine India’s future
  This is a hybrid event
  Dr Maya Tudor (Blavatnik School of Government), Pratap Bhanu Mehta (Princeton University)

Wednesday 12 June 2024

• 10:00 - Approaching Raw Wounds: The Rhetoric of Trauma in Palestinian and Northern Irish Fiction Writing
  Various Speakers
• 14:00 - Feeding the Tigers: Remittances and Conflict in Sri Lanka
  Dominic Rohner (University of Lausanne)
  Political Economy Seminar
• 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
• 15:30 - Strategic Storytelling
  Giulia Caprini (University of Oxford)
  Political Economy Seminar
• 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
• 17:30 - Between subjective and objective construal: Pointing gestures as grounding elements
  Professor Kurt Feyaerts (University of Leuven)
  IMCC Seminar Talks

Thursday 13 June 2024

• 13:00 - Reproducing the Cloister: Hroswitha of Gandersheim, Margery Kempe of Lynn, and 20th-Century Networks of Female Medievalists
  Stacie Vos
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 17:00 - The 46th Annual George Antonius Memorial Lecture
  Professor Amaney Jamal (Princeton University)
• 17:30 - Intimate Partner Violence in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Inequalities and impact on children
  This is a hybrid event
  Professor Alan Stein (University of Oxford), Dr Carolina Coll (Wellcome Trust)

Friday 14 June 2024

• 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
• 17:00 - Book launch - Molla Nasreddin: The Making of a Modern Trickster, 1906-1911
  Professor Janet Afary (University of California)
  MEC SEMINAR SERIES

Thursday 20 June 2024

• 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

• 09:00 - Day 1: International Conference - Global Gender: Pasts, Presents, Futures - Gender Pasts
  Various Speakers
  3-Day International Conference - Global Gender: Pasts, Presents, Futures

Tuesday 25 June 2024

• 09:00 - Day 2: International Conference - Global Gender: Pasts, Presents, Futures - Presents and Futures
  Various Speakers
  3-Day International Conference - Global Gender: Pasts, Presents, Futures

Wednesday 26 June 2024

• 09:30 - Day 3: International Conference - Global Gender: Pasts, Presents, Futures - Gender in Film and Fiction
  Various Speakers
  3-Day International Conference - Global Gender: Pasts, Presents, Futures
• 09:45 - 'The Vietnamese Fight was our Fight': Anti-war Protest and Third Worldist solidarities
  Adrian Browne (Independent Scholar), Luke Melchiorre (Universidad de los Andes), Omar Gueye (Cheikh Anta Diop University), Andrew Ivaska (Concordia University)
  Africans and war in Vietnam: global protest, liberation politics and transnational soldiers
• 12:15 - Languages of Liberation: Visions, Ideas and Rhetoric (Africans and War in Vietnam)
  Dan Hodgkinson (University of Oxford), Frank Gerits (Utrecht University), Thula Simpson (University of Pretoria)
  Africans and war in Vietnam: global protest, liberation politics and transnational soldiers
• 14:30 - Art as Weapon: Vietnamese Communist Cultural Diplomacy in the American War
  Pierre Asselin (San Diego State University)
  Africans and war in Vietnam: global protest, liberation politics and transnational soldiers

Thursday 27 June 2024

• 09:00 - Minoritisation in South Asia: Religion, Caste, Gender
  Abraham Akhter Murad (Kellogg College), Dr Faisal Devji, Justin Jones (Pembroke), Ruth Harris (University of Oxford ), Soheb Niazi (Freie Universität), Layli Uddin (Queen Mary University), Yaqoob Khan Bangash (Lahore), Madhurima Sen, Ghazal Asif Farrukhi (Lahore University of Management Sciences), Uday Chandra (Georgetown, Qatar), Shikoh Zaidi (Georgetown University, Qatar), Radhika Hettiarachchi (Collective for Historical Dialogues and Memory), Ipshita Basu (University of Westminster), Dr Meera Sabaratnam (New College, Oxford), S Akbar Zaidi (Institute of Business Administration Karachi), Thiruni Kelagama (Wolfson College, Oxford), Madura Rasaratnam (University of London), Maria Misra, Shehan Karunatilaka, Yasmin Khan (Kellogg College, Oxford), Adnan Hossain (University of Glasgow), Afiya S Zia (Wesleyan University), Daanish Mustafa (Kings College London), Julian Kuttig (Ghent University), Brahma Prakash (Jawaharlal Nehru University), Timothy Cooper (King's College, Cambridge), Mukesh Kumar (University of Zurich), Mathilde Maitrot (University of Bath), Joe Devine (University of Bath), Arif Naveed (University of Bath), Ajmal Khan AT (Shiv Nadar University)
• 10:00 - War in Vietnam and its Afterlives: the politics of the intimate and everyday
  Mamadou Fall (Cheikh Anta Diop University), Natalya Vince (University College, Oxford), Marie Robin (Columbia University), Aincre Maame-Fosua Evans (University of Oxford)
  Africans and war in Vietnam: global protest, liberation politics and transnational soldiers
• 11:45 - Anticolonial Worldmaking and the Vietnam War: Cold War geopolitics and non-aligned diplomacy
  Paul Bjerk (Texas Tech University), John Dotse (University of Toronto), Maxwell Bogpene (University of British Columbia), E. O. Ojelabi (Texas Tech University)
  Africans and war in Vietnam: global protest, liberation politics and transnational soldiers
• 13:00 - The Oxford Cyber Forum
  Various Speakers
• 14:00 - Global Revolutions: Vietnam in African Revolutionary Imaginaries
  Jeffrey James Byrne (University of British Colombia), Jodie Yuzhou Sun (Fudan University), Chris J. Lee (The Africa Institute), Ruth Shoo (University of Oxford)
  Africans and war in Vietnam: global protest, liberation politics and transnational soldiers

Monday 8 July 2024

• 15:00 - Elections 2024: New routes to climate resilience?
  This event takes place online only
  Rachel Kyte (Blavatnik School of Government), Sugandha Srivastav (Complexity/Sustainability Programmes, INET Oxford), Prof Sam Fankhauser (Research Director, Oxford Net Zero Initiative), Dr Thomas Hale (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford), Mr Chris Skidmore (Visiting Parliamentary Fellow)
• 17:30 - International Perspectives in Conservatism
  This is a hybrid event.
  Professor Robert P George (McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, Princeton University), Tom Simpson (Blavatnik School of Government)

Monday 22 July 2024

• 09:00 - Fundamentals of Graduate Economics: Day 1 of 5
  Ines Moreno de Barreda (University of Oxford)
  Oxford University Economics Summer Schools

Tuesday 23 July 2024

• 09:00 - Fundamentals of Graduate Economics: Day 2 of 5
  Ines Moreno de Barreda (University of Oxford)
  Oxford University Economics Summer Schools

Wednesday 24 July 2024

• 09:00 - Fundamentals of Graduate Economics: Day 3 of 5
  Ines Moreno de Barreda (University of Oxford), James Duffy (University of Oxford)
  Oxford University Economics Summer Schools

Thursday 25 July 2024

• 09:00 - Fundamentals of Graduate Economics: Day 4 of 5
  James Duffy (University of Oxford)
  Oxford University Economics Summer Schools

Friday 26 July 2024

• 09:00 - Fundamentals of Graduate Economics: Day 5 of 5
  James Duffy (University of Oxford)
  Oxford University Economics Summer Schools

Wednesday 2 October 2024

• 09:30 - The Peace Formula: Breaking the Conflict Trap
  Prof Dominic Rohner (University of Lausanne)
  Research Cluster on Economic and Human Development in Muslim Societies

Tuesday 8 October 2024

• 14:00 - Dr Dana Mills, 'Dissenting Against War and Colonialism in Writing and in Action'
  Dr Dana Mills (+972 Magazine)
  Writing Jewish Women's Lives

Friday 11 October 2024

• 15:30 - Insights for Action: Unlocking the Promise of Social Entrepreneurship
  *This event will be recorded and photographed. This event is hybrid and will take place in The Nest, Saïd Business School and online. For those joining in person, the seminar will be followed by a reception. Please note: the link to access the event online will be emailed to you approximately 24 hours before the event, and on the day of the event. PRIVACY POLICY: Eventbrite processes data (including any personal data you may submit by responding to this invitation) outside of the European Economic Area. Please submit only any personal data which you are happy to have processed in this way, and in accordance with Eventbrite's privacy policy applicable to attendees, and the SBS privacy policy. If you prefer not to use Eventbrite for responding to this invitation, you may respond directly to menna.clarke@sbs.ox.ac.uk.
  Cynthia Rayner (researcher, writer, and lecturer affiliated with the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation at the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business), Andrew Bastawrous (Peek Vision), Marya Besharov (Saïd Business School, University of Oxford), Jeroo Billimoria (Catalyst 2030), Soumitra Dutta (Saïd Business School), Marco M. Alemán (World Intellectual Property Organization)
  Insights for Action

Monday 14 October 2024

• 11:30 - Rethinking Capitalism: The Power of Creative Destruction
  Philippe Aghion (College de France)
  Political Economy Seminar
• 16:00 - Oriental Christ: What India did with Jesus and Why it is Important
  Ruth Harris (University of Oxford )
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 16:00 - AI Governance Initiative Seminar: Ritwik Gupta on Data-Centric AI Governance
  Joining via Google Meet
  Ritwik Gupta (University of California, Berkeley)
• 18:00 - The critical first 100 days
  This is a hybrid event
  Professor Anand Menon (King’s College London), Professor Ciaran Martin (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford), Thomas Elston (Blavatnik School of Government), Tom Simpson (Blavatnik School of Government)

Tuesday 15 October 2024

• 14:00 - Being Hindu, Being Indian: Lala Lajpat Rai’s Ideas of Nationhood
  Vanya Vaidehi Bhargav (National Law School of India University, Bangalore, India)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 14:15 - Buber and Gandhi on land and resistance: Reading the Buber-Gandhi correspondence after October 7
  Dr Yemima Hadad (University of Leipzig)
  Israel Studies Seminar
• 16:00 - Global Multidimensional Poverty for Children with Disabilities: A 40 countries study
  Dr Monica Pinilla-Roncancio (Research Associate Universidad de los Andes; Researcher OPHI)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 17:15 - The New Spirit of Islamism: Interactions between the AKP, Ennahda and the Muslim Brotherhood
  Dr Ezgi Başaran (University of Oxford)
  Book Talks

Wednesday 16 October 2024

• 12:30 - The Present and Future of US Politics: Foreign Policy
  Peter Feaver (Duke University)
  The Present and Future of US Politics
• 16:00 - Technical AI Governance Researcher Mixer - Where Disciplines Meet Ideas in Oxford
  Dr Michael Osborne (Oxford Martin School ), Dr Robert Trager (Blavatnik School of Government), Yarin Gal (Associate Professor of Machine Learning, Head of the Oxford Applied and Theoretical Machine Learning (OATML) Research Group), Ben Bucknall (Research Scholar, Centre for the Governance of AI), Dr Marta Ziosi (Oxford Martin School)
• 17:00 - Moral Atmospheres: Islam and Media in a Marketplace
  Timothy Cooper (King's College, Cambridge)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:30 - Lord Chris Smith in conversation
  Lord Chris Smith (House of Lords), David Isaac CBE
  Provost's Role Models

Thursday 17 October 2024

• 12:30 - Women-Centric or Feminist? Gender Politics in Tagore’s Texts
  Sanjukta Dasgupta (Calcutta University)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 17:00 - The Role of the UNAOC in a Multipolar World
  Mr Miguel Ángel Moratinos (High Representative United Nations Alliance of Civilizations)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies - Events

Friday 18 October 2024

• 10:00 - Introduction
  TBA
  Reading Rorty
• 14:00 - Applying Theory to Historical Research
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group
• 17:00 - Colonial subjects and the right to have rights: Algeria, 1834
  Professor Charles Kurzman (University of North Carolina)
  Friday Seminars
• 17:00 - I Am a Living Object: Decolonizing Museum Spaces with Indigenous Narratives
  Dr Kanako Uzawa
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Monday 21 October 2024

• 11:30 - Black Empowerment and White Mobilization: The Effects of the Voting Rights Act (with G. Facchini, M. Tabellini, and C. Testa)
  Andrea Bernini (University of Oxford)
  Political Economy Seminar
• 12:00 - What is the Status Quo in the Taiwan Strait?
  Dr James Lee (Academia Sinica)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:00 - The challenges of writing Middle East history after 7 October: from Gaza to the climate crisis
  Dr Ibrahim al-Marashi (California State University)
  Book Talks

Tuesday 22 October 2024

• 13:00 - The relationship between racialisation and energy use in the UK: Some considerations for energy justice research
  Uttara Narayan (Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford)
  ECM Brown Bag Seminar Series
• 14:00 - The Muslim son of a Hindu zamindar - family quarrels and religious boundaries in a Mughal landlord's lineage
  Nandini Chatterjee (Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 14:15 - The Image of Herod in Modern Israel
  Professor Martin Goodman
  Israel Studies Seminar
• 16:00 - Imperial Odyssey: The USS Ticonderoga and the Search for US Empire
  Stephen Tuffnell (Oxford)
  American History Research Seminar
• 16:00 - A multidimensional measure for energy poverty in Colombia
  Francisco Espinosa (Co-founder and CEO, Inclusion SAS), Angela Granger (Consultant, Inclusion SAS), Ana Lorena Carrero (Consultant, Inclusion SAS)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 17:00 - Carbon neutrality in media in Europe and worldwide: Mapping the transformation of the climate change regime
  Michael Parízek (Charles University, Prague), Jakub Tesar (Charles University, Prague)
  European Studies Seminar

Wednesday 23 October 2024

• 12:30 - The Present and Future of US Politics: What next for the Democratic Party?
  Rob Saldin (University of Montana)
  The Present and Future of US Politics
• 12:30 - Panel discussion: 'Operationalising climate policy for global net zero emissions'
  Professor David Karoly (School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne), Dr Thom Wetzer (Associate Professor of Law and Finance and Founding Director, Oxford Sustainable Law Programme), Injy Johnstone (Research Associate in Net Zero Aligned Offsetting, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment), Kate Cook (Matrix Chambers)
  Oxford Martin School Events
• 17:00 - On Genocide: Then and Now
  Professor Phillipe Sands (University College London)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - In conversation with Katy Barrow-Grint, Assistant Chief Constable, Thames Valley Police
  Katy Barrow-Grint (Thames Valley Police)
• 17:15 - The Shadow of the Apocalypse? In Search of a New History of the Second World War
  Jonathan Fennell (KCL)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 24 October 2024

• 12:30 - West African Women’s Movements in Global Feminist History
  Aincre Evans (Oxford)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 15:00 - The Political Economy of Worker Retraining in the Age of AI
  Julian Jacobs (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 16:30 - Book talk: Gerard Toal (2024) Oceans rise, empires fall (OUP)
  Gerard Toal
• 17:30 - Conservatism and Constitutional Government
  this is a hybrid event
  Tom Simpson (Blavatnik School of Government), Dr Asanga Welikala (University of Edinburgh)

Friday 25 October 2024

• 10:00 - Pragmatism and Truth I
  TBA
  Reading Rorty
• 14:00 - Chinese Food
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group
• 16:00 - Writing the Indian Army and the Second World War
  David Omissi (Hull)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 16:15 - Conservation Optimism film festival
  N/A
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series
• 17:00 - From the cradle to the street: family and the 1979 Revolution in Iran
  Professor Naghmeh Sohrabi (Brandeis University)
  Friday Seminars
• 17:00 - Beneath Modernism: The Transformation of Popular Culture from Edo to Modern Japan
  Dr Ryoko Matsuba (University of East Anglia)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Monday 28 October 2024

• 11:30 - American Life Histories (with D. Lagakos and S. Michalopoulos)
  Professor Joachim Voth (UBS Professor of Macroeconomics and Financial Markets at the University of Zurich)
  Political Economy Seminar
• 17:30 - Blavatnik Book Talks: The Forever Crisis
  This is a hybrid event.
  Professor Thomas Hale (Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 29 October 2024

• 14:00 - Populism, piety and postfeminism in Pakistan
  Afiya Zia (Independent scholar)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 14:15 - 'You cannot really live (or die) here’: ongoing struggles over cemeteries and housing in Tel Aviv-Jaffa, 1957-2020
  Dr Michal Huss (University of Manchester)
  Israel Studies Seminar
• 16:00 - Gendered work: Onset and consequences
  Lise Vesterlund (Pittsburg University)
  Applied Microeconomics Seminar
• 16:00 - "Waste places": Remaking the Plantation at Booker T Washington's Tuskeegee Institute
  Laura Wilson (British Library)
  American History Research Seminar
• 16:00 - Multidimensional Poverty: Future Proof with Linked Macro-Micro Modelling
  Asghar Adelzadeh (Applied Development Research Solutions), Ludwe Ngangelizwe (Applied Development Research Solutions)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 17:15 - Tahrir, Gaza, and beyond: revolution, liberation, and praxis
  Rusha Latif (author of 'Tahrir's Youth: Leaders of a Leaderless Revolution')
  Book Talks
• 17:30 - The 2024 US election and its digital aspects
  Dr Caroline Leicht (University of Glasgow), Keegan McBride (The Oxford Internet Institute), Prathm Juneja (Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford), Licinia Guttel (Oxford Internet Institute)

Wednesday 30 October 2024

• 12:30 - The Present and Future of US Politics: Whose Vote Counts?
  Ursala Hackett (Royal Holloway, University of London)
  The Present and Future of US Politics
• 14:00 - Finding Comrades – which (non-policy) group based appeals can parties employ to improve their association with the working class
  Tom Pruchnow (University of Oxford)
  CESS Colloquium Series
• 17:00 - Iran’s Crisis of Governance
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Professor Anoush Ehteshami (Durham University)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Crafting a new global order? The United Nations and international politics in the 1990s
  Fabian Klose (Cologne)
  Oxford Martin School Events

Thursday 31 October 2024

• 15:00 - Understanding the Geoeconomics of Data Centres and the Cloud
  Abid Abdurrahman Adonis (Oxford Internet Institute)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 15:30 - Northern Exposure: Race, nation and disaffection in post-Brexit Wakefield
  Adrian Favell (Coláiste na hOllscoile Corcaigh), Andrew Wallace (University of Greenwich)

Friday 1 November 2024

• 10:00 - Pragmatism and Truth II
  TBA
  Reading Rorty
• 14:00 - Twentieth Century Chinese Theatre
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group
• 16:00 - How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
  Caroline Dodds Pennock (Sheffield)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Tanaka Denjiro VII - A Kabuki Music Perfomance
  Tanaka Denjiro
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
• 17:00 - Professorial Lecture: Law, Philosophy, and the Susceptible Skins of Living Beings
  Professor David Enoch (University of Oxford)

Saturday 2 November 2024

• 10:00 - South Sudan at the Crossroads, Election or No Election – What is the Prospect for Real Peace for South Sudan
  Please aim to register before 25th October 2024, as this helps greatly with planning for the day's catering and hospitality which are provided by St Antony's College.
  Various Speakers

Monday 4 November 2024

• 11:30 - Aló Presidente: Direct Political Communication and Electoral Outcomes in Chávez's Venezuela
  Abelardo De Anda Casas (University of Oxford)
  Political Economy Seminar
• 16:00 - Title TBC
  Ria Kapoor (Queen Mary University of London)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Tuesday 5 November 2024

• 14:00 - The political lives of Information: Information and invisibilisation in digital India
  Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 14:15 - New & Jew, Zionism and the Quest for National Culture
  Professor Yaron Peleg (University of Cambridge)
  Israel Studies Seminar
• 16:00 - Frances Thompson: Race, Gender Non-Conformity, and Scandal in the White Conservative Press During Reconstruction
  Elizabeth Barnes (Reading)
  American History Research Seminar
• 16:00 - Moderate Poverty Measurement in Middle Income Countries
  Dr Monica Pinilla-Roncancio (Research Associate Universidad de los Andes; Researcher OPHI), Miss Fanni Kovesdi (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative), Dr Hector Moreno (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative), Dr Ricardo Nogales (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative), Adriana Conconi (UNDP-LAC)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 17:00 - Rethinking Europe’s East-West Divide: Who will lead the EU?
  Mihail Chiru (Oxford School of Global and Area Studies), Kristi Raik (International Centre for Defence and Security), Zselyke Csaky (Centre for European Reform), Hussein Kassim (University of Warwick)
  European Studies Seminar
• 17:15 - Conflict and citizenship: the challenges of Palestinian-Arabs in Israel
  Professor Sarab Abu-Rabia-Queder (Ben-Gurion University)

Wednesday 6 November 2024

• 12:30 - The Present and Future of US Politics: Debrief
  Adam Smith (Oxford)
  The Present and Future of US Politics
• 17:00 - History and the Modern Middle East: Do Policy Makers Need a Sense of the Past?
  Sir John Jenkins (Former UK Ambassador to Saudi Arabia)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:15 - Everyday militarism and the history of British military bases
  Yasmin Khan (Oxford)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 7 November 2024

• 12:30 - Ceramics and Resistance: Artistic Assertions of Black Caribbean Identity
  Olivia Holder (Oxford)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 15:00 - Content Moderation, Platform Governance, and Legitimacy
  Diyi Liu (Oxford Internet Institute)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 17:00 - Research Speed Dating Workshop hosted by WGIQ
  Various Speakers
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 17:00 - The US Election: What Just Happened
  Registration required for online attendance
  Adam Smith (Oxford), Kimberly Johnson (University of Oxford), Jason Casellas (University of Houston), Mike Murphy, Clare Malone (The New Yorker)

Friday 8 November 2024

• 10:00 - A Liberal Utopia I
  TBA
  Reading Rorty
• 12:00 - Living with Digital Surveillance in China. Citizens’ Narratives on Technology, Privacy, and Governance
  Prof Ariane Ollier-Malaterre (University of Quebec)
• 12:45 - Strategic Vote Splitting in Elections
  Nianzu Xiong (University of Oxford)
  Student Research Workshop in Micro Theory
• 13:30 - Science, Innovation and Research at Oxford with Peter Mandelson
  Lord Peter Mandelson (University of Oxford), Professor Molly Stevens, FREng FRS (Imperial College London), Prof Jim Naismith (University of Oxford), Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt
• 14:00 - The Lineage in Chinese History
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group
• 16:00 - East of Empire: Egypt, India, and the World between the Wars
  Erin O'Halloran (Cambridge)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Regional dimensions of the Gaza crisis, and the Arab role in the UN Security Council
  Mouin Rabbani, Hasmik Egian
  Friday Seminars
• 17:00 - Ryūtei Saryū – Rakugo Performer
  Ryūtei Saryū
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Monday 11 November 2024

• 11:30 - A Research Program on COVID-19: Three Examples
  Torsten Persson (Stockholm University)
  Political Economy Seminar
• 16:00 - Nightmares of Decolonization: Paramilitary Violence and the Making of South Asia
  Ali Raza (Lahore University of Management Sciences)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Tuesday 12 November 2024

• 11:00 - Life-Writing Research Skills: Life-Writing with Government and On-Line Databases
  Victoria Phillips
  Life-Writing Research Skills
• 12:00 - China in the Caribbean with Implications for Western Hemisphere Geopolitics
  Dr Bhoendradatt Tewarie (The University of the West Indies)
  China Centre talks
• 14:00 - Radical Futures or Pristine Pasts? : The Afterlives of Anti-Casteism in Western India
  Surajkumar Thube (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 14:15 - To Ensure the Jewish Character of the Town Through the Establishment of a Central Synagogue: Synagogues in Israeli Urban Internal Frontiers as Symbols of Sovereignty
  Dr Davidi Borabeck (University of Oxford)
  Israel Studies Seminar
• 16:00 - Measuring 'Leaving no one behind': Options from India
  Professor Sabina Alkire (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 17:00 - 2024 Harmsworth Lecture in American History: The Roots of American Authoritarianism
  Please note this lecture will be held at the Examination Schools at 17:00
  Professor Lisa McGirr (Harvard)
  American History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - CANCELLED - Princess Akiko of Mikasa – A Tale of the Royal and Imperial Costumes: The Trajectory of UK-Japan Relations - CANCELLED
  Princess Akiko of Mikasa
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
• 17:15 - CANCELLED: Sacred Places Tell Tales: Jewish Life and Heritage in Modern Cairo
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Professor Yoram Meital (Ben-Gurion University)
  Book Talks
• 20:30 - OSSG: Insurgency in the 21st Century
  TBA
  OSSG Weekly Talks

Wednesday 13 November 2024

• 12:30 - The Present and Future of US Politics: The Urban-Suburban Divide
  Kimberly Johnson (University of Oxford)
  The Present and Future of US Politics
• 16:00 - When Powers Collide: Labor Unions Against the Buyer Power of Walmart Supercenters
  Zachary Parolin (Bocconi University [Nuffield College Visitor])
  Nuffield College Sociology Seminars
• 17:00 - English Judges in Muslim Countries: Synergies and Sensitivities in Promoting the Rule of Law
  Sir Peter Gross (Former Lord Justice of Appeal)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:30 - Professor Lucy Easthope: When the dust settles
  Professor Lucy Easthope (University of Bath)
• 17:30 - Principal's Conversation with Professor Nancy Weiss Malkiel, author of "Keep the Damned Women Out': The Struggle for Coeducation"
  Nancy Malkiel (Professor Emeritus of History at Princeton), John Bowers QC (Principal, Brasenose College, Oxford)
  Celebrating 50 Years of Women at Brasenose

Thursday 14 November 2024

• 12:30 - Harmsworth Lecture Response
  Please note this seminar will take place on Thursday 14 November at 12:30
  Andrew Preston (Cambridge)
  American History Research Seminar
• 15:00 - Compute North vs. Compute South: The Uneven Possibilities of Compute-based AI Governance Around the Globe
  Boxi Wu (Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus

Friday 15 November 2024

• 10:00 - A Liberal Utopia II
  TBA
  Reading Rorty
• 15:30 - Scaling Impact: How Consultants Shape the Field
  This event is hybrid. Please register via Eventbrite for the Zoom Link.
  Marya Besharov (Saïd Business School, University of Oxford), Leah Reisman (The Barra Foundation), Ben Taylor (Ernst & Young)
  Insights for Action
• 16:00 - Picturing War: Art and Empire in the Late-Victorian Period
  Sean Willcock (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The Abraham Accords: The Gulf States, Israel, and the Limits of Normalization
  Dr Elham Fakhro (Belfer Center, Harvard Kennedy School)
  Book Talks
• 17:15 - Dr James Manyika in conversation with Professor Philippa Webb
  This is a hybrid event.
  Philippa Webb (University of Oxford), James Manyika

Sunday 17 November 2024

• 16:45 - Provost’s Talk with Permanent Secretary Susannah Storey
  Various Speakers

Monday 18 November 2024

• 11:30 - Knowledge Suppression and Resilience under Censorship: Three-century Book Publications in China
  Ruixue Jia (University of California San Diego)
  Political Economy Seminar
• 16:00 - The Charismatic Paradigm and Modernist Muslim Thought
  Teena Purohit (Boston University)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Tuesday 19 November 2024

• 14:00 - Book Talk: Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir
  Omer Aijazi (Manchester)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 14:15 - Abraham and Moses as Entrepreneurs: Educating for the Future with Narratives of the Past
  Dr Sari Alfi-Nissan (University of Oxford)
  Israel Studies Seminar
• 16:00 - Roll Away The Stone: African American Gospel Music 1930-1965
  Harvey Cohen (KCL)
  American History Research Seminar
• 16:00 - Towards a ‘Moderate’ MPI for ISDB countries: Indicators and methodological options
  TBA
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 17:00 - Climate politics and public support for green transition in Europe
  Booking only required if joining online.
  Liam Beiser-McGrath (London School of Economics)
  European Studies Seminar
• 17:30 - David N. Lyon Lecture 2024
  Ilias Trispiotis (University of Leeds), Jayne Ozanne (Ozanne Foundation), Phillip Ayoub (UCL)
• 20:30 - OSSG: The Future of Intelligence in the Face of Unprecedented Global Geopolitical Threats
  Harry Kemsley
  OSSG Weekly Talks

Wednesday 20 November 2024

• 12:30 - The Present and Future of US Politics: Political Violence
  Professor Desmond Kind (University of Oxford)
  The Present and Future of US Politics
• 17:00 - Threats to the Rule of Law
  The Rt. Hon. Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury (Former President, UK Supreme Court)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:15 - How the Navy saved Britain 1793-1798
  Rachel Blackman-Rogers (KCL)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 21 November 2024

• 12:30 - Family Stories and Secrets in memories of the UK 1984/85 Miners' strike
  Carly Guest (Northumbria University)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 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

• 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

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

Tuesday 26 November 2024

• 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
• 16:10 - Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2024: Poverty amid conflict
  Please note amended starting time of 4:10pm GMT.
  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

• 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
• 17:30 - Brasenose women working for global and local change in the voluntary and public sectors
  Various Speakers
  Celebrating 50 Years of Women at Brasenose

Thursday 28 November 2024

• 12:30 - Conceiving the Past at the GLBT Historical Society: Inside San Francisco’s Queer Museum & Archives
  Gerard Koskovich
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 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

• 11:00 - A Liberal Utopia III
  TBA
  Reading Rorty
• 13:00 - Joint Workshop with the Department of Sociology: Dispute Resolution: Exploring Criminal, Informal, and Alternative Perspectives
  Various Speakers
  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

• 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
• 11:30 - The role of finance in protecting people, planet and prosperity in the Indian Ocean and Southern Africa
  Registration on Eventbrite.
  Idah Pswarayi-Riddihough (World Bank Country Director), Professor Christopher Adam (University of Oxford), Dr Nicola Ranger (Director of the Resilient Planet Finance Lab)

Tuesday 3 December 2024

• 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
  VENUE CHANGE: This seminar will now take place in the Music Room at Queen Elizabeth House, as well as online as usual.
  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
• 17:15 - After COP29: what next for climate policy?
  This event takes place online only.
  Dr Thomas Hale (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford), Rachel Kyte (Blavatnik School of Government)
• 17:30 - What is conservatism? A historical perspective
  This is a hybrid event.
  Tom Simpson (Blavatnik School of Government), Lord Sumption

Wednesday 4 December 2024

• 12:30 - The Present and Future of US Politics: Conservatism
  This talk has been cancelled
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  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

• 12:30 - Materiality and Memorialisation in Queer Heritage
  Alison Oram (Institute of Historical Research)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 15:00 - Rethinking Military AI Governance: From Principles to Practice
  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
• 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

• 10:00 - Criticism and Conclusion
  TBA
  Reading Rorty
• 10:00 - Taiwan and Indo-Pacific Geopolitics: Implications of 2024 Pivotal Elections Around the World (Annual Oxford Taiwan Studies Conference 2024)
  Professor Paul Chaisty (University of Oxford), Mr Andy Cheu-an Bi (Taipei Representative Office in the UK), Dr Monique Ming-chin Chu (University of Southampton), Professor Yeh-chung Lu (National Chengchi University), Dr Nicola Leveringhaus (King's College London), Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford), Professor Chris Hughes (University of Warwick), Professor Ramon Pacheco Pardo (King's College London), Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford), Professor Patricia Thornton (University of Oxford), Dr Zsuzsa Anna Ferenczy (National Dong Hwa University), Dr Michael Reilly (University of Nottingham), Dr Una Aleksandra Bērziņa-Čerenkova (Riga Stradins University), Professor Paul Irwin Crookes (University of Oxford), Representative Vincent Chin-hsiang Yao (Taipei Representative Office in the UK), Professor Rachel Murphy (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Taiwan Studies Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Make Our World.
  Dr. Joe Roman (University of Vermont.)
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series
• 13:00 - The Lessons From Canada's Assisted Dying Laws
  David Lametti
  Oxford Medical Humanities
• 14:00 - The CCP at the Grassroots
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group
• 16:00 - The Statues of Robert Clive: The making and remaking of a supremacist icon
  Nandini Chatterjee (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 9 December 2024

• 11:00 - Riverways and rural resistance: The case of Colombia's Movimiento Ríos Vivos social movement
  Carolina Osorio Gil (Cornell University)
  ODID Special Lectures & Seminars

Wednesday 11 December 2024

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

Monday 13 January 2025

• 12:00 - Moral Fluidity and Digital Economies: Socio-Economic Transformations in Rural China
  Mr Peng Wu (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
  China Centre talks

Monday 20 January 2025

• 11:30 - A Political Disconnect? Evidence From Votes on EU Trade Agreements?
  Paola Conconi (University of Oxford)
  Political Economy Seminar

Tuesday 21 January 2025

• 11:30 - The "Care" Series: Reading: ‘Reclaiming Care: Refusal, Nullification, and Decolonial Politics’
  Lucile Richard (Nuffield College, Oxford)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 14:00 - Organisation of Segregation: Reproducing Caste Inequalities in Urban India
  Jusmeet S Sihra (University of Cambridge)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Morale: A Revolutionary Idea?
  Krysten Blackstone (Salford)
  American History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The Political Thought of Xi Jinping
  Professor Steve Tsang (SOAS)
  China Centre talks
• 17:00 - EU-China relations: Can cooperation and competition coexist?
  Lucie Qian Xia (Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford), Dimitar Bechev (Oxford School of Global Area Studies)
  European Studies Seminar

Wednesday 22 January 2025

• 17:00 - Monarchy and Mass Politics in the Middle East
  Professor Scott Williamson (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 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)

Thursday 23 January 2025

• 11:45 - Matrix, Environment, Atmosphere: How Mother Became a Medium
  Hannah Zeavin (UC Berkeley)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].

Friday 24 January 2025

• 13:30 - Rainbow Bridges: Chinese Queer Short Films Showcase
  Film - English & Mandarin subtitles provided, original audio in Mandarin. Q & A Discussion in English
  Jenny Man Wu (Filmmaker), Hongyu Jiang (Film Director), Yuqing Lai (Film Director), Siyuan Liu (Film Director)
• 15:30 - Towards Purpose: Redesigning Business From Within
  Marya Besharov (Saïd Business School, University of Oxford), Erinch Sahan (Doughnut Economics Action Lab), Bruno Roche (ONE Society and Economics of Mutuality)
  Insights for Action
• 16:00 - Beyond Boundaries: Developing Indigenous Intellectual History
  Saliha Belmessous (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Lebanon and Syria amidst regional turmoil
  Associate Professor Joseph Bahout (Director of the Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs, AUB)
  Friday Seminars
• 17:00 - Religion at the margins: Fear and belonging in minority religious communities in Japan
  Professor Erica Baffelli (University of Manchester)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Monday 27 January 2025

• 10:00 - Reading Nineteen Eighty-Four in Beijing
  Professor Jeffrey Wasserstrom (University of California Irvine)
  China Centre talks
• 11:30 - A Cognitive Theory of Reasoning and Choice
  Pedro Bordalo (Saïd Business School, University of Oxford)
  Political Economy Seminar

Tuesday 28 January 2025

• 14:00 - From ‘Riot’ to ‘Pogrom’: A History of Ethno-Religious Violence in Sri Lanka
  Shamara Wettimuny (Queen’s College, University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Anishinaabe Albion: Indigenous Diplomacy, Performance, and Resistance in the British Isles
  John Bird (Oxford)
  American History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The Oxford Handbook of Religion in Turkey
  Professor Caroline Tee (University of Chester), Dr Sertaç Sehlikoglu (UCL), Dr Stefan Williamson Fa (University of Cambridge), Associate Professor Fabio Vicini (University of Verona)
  Book Talks
• 17:30 - The Alfred Landecker Memorial Lecture : Escaping the Holocaust
  This event is hybrid
  Professor Ngaire Woods (Dean, Blavatnik School of Government), Jonathan Freedland (Columnist for The Guardian newspaper)

Wednesday 29 January 2025

• 12:00 - US-China Relations in the 21st Century: Prospect and Retrospect
  Dr Andrew Scobell (United States Institute of Peace)
  China Centre talks
• 17:00 - The Sun Sets in the West: The Battle for Soft Power in a Multipolar World
  Mr Simon Anholt (Anholt & Co.)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:15 - Losing a War of Attrition: Developing Concepts of Warfare and the Realities and Perceptions of Axis Defeat in the Mediterranean War (1940-1943)
  Richard Hammond (Brunel)
  History of War Seminar Series
• 17:30 - Brasenose Women in the Humanities and Social Sciences
  Mr John Bowers KC (Principal, Brasenose College, Oxford), Professor Masooda Bano (University of Oxford), Banu Demir Pakel (University of Oxford), Abigail Green (Brasenose College), Professor Sos Eltis (University of Oxford), Dr Sonali Nag (University of Oxford), Katerina Tertytchnaya (University of Oxford), Professor Carole Bourne-Taylor (Brasenose College), Professor Anne Davies (Brasenose College)
  Celebrating 50 Years of Women at Brasenose

Thursday 30 January 2025

• 11:45 - Materialities of Care: Agency and the Asylum in nineteenth-century England
  Anna Jamieson (Birmingham)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 14:45 - The Political Economy of Strategic Technology Transfer: Security, Aid, and Benefit-Sharing in an Era of AI Competition
  Sumaya Nur Adan (Oxford Martin School AI Governance Initiative)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 17:30 - The starvation of civilian populations in war
  This event takes place in person only.
  Janina Dill (University of Oxford), Tom Dannenbaum (The Fletcher School)

Friday 31 January 2025

• 16:00 - Folksongs and Inclusion in Early Modernity: A Comparative Study
  Leigh Jenco (LSE)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Sudan's current war: a longer view on peacemaking and prospects
  Dr Richard Barltrop (Visiting Senior Fellow, LSE Middle East Centre)
  Friday Seminars
• 17:00 - India's Democracy: Decline and Resilience
  This is a hybrid event.
  Professor Dr Rahul Mukherji (Heidelberg University), Dr Maya Tudor (Blavatnik School of Government)
• 17:00 - Meritocracy’s Children: Coming of Age and Senses of Injustice in Seoul and Tokyo
  Dr Yuki Asahina (University of Manchester)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Monday 3 February 2025

• 11:30 - Migration Policy Backlash, Identity and Integration of Second-generation Migrants in France
  Yajna Govind (Copenhagen Business School)
  Political Economy Seminar

Tuesday 4 February 2025

• 11:30 - The "Care" Series: 'Rethinking Care Work: (Dis)affection and the Politics of Caring’
  Sarah Knott (St John's College, Oxford)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 14:00 - Unfair ID: Digital Identity from Injustice to Resistance
  Silvia Masiero (University of Oslo)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 16:00 - "Harlem Interdit": Paris-Match and European Uses of Harlem, c.1964-c.1975
  Andrew Fearnley (Manchester)
  American History Research Seminar
• 16:10 - Measuring women's empowerment in low- and middle-income countries
  Jhonatan Clausen (Institute of Human Development of Latin America), Nicolás Barrantes (Institute of Human Development of Latin America)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 16:15 - Blavatnik Bool Talk: Timely Cash: Lessons from 2,500 Years of Giving People Money
  CANCELLED
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Professor Stefan Dercon (Blavatnik School of Government), Ugo Gentilini, Flavia Galvani (Blavatnik School of Government)
• 17:00 - Rethinking Masculinity Through Men's Sexual Experiences in Tehran
  Dr Nafiseh Sharifi (University of Exeter)
  Women’s Rights Research Seminars

Wednesday 5 February 2025

• 17:00 - Mirror of the Universe: The Evolution of the Astrolabe
  Dr Taha Arslan (Istanbul Medeniyet University)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 6 February 2025

• 11:45 - The Future of Queer History
  Justin Bengry
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 15:00 - The Role of Internal Skills and Expertise in Public Sector Digital Transformation
  Dr Aaron Maniam (BSG, Univeristy of Oxford)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 17:00 - The Politics of Global Vaccine Equity
  Dr Renu Singh (Durham University)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series

Friday 7 February 2025

• 15:00 - Canadian Medical Assistance in Dying: Provider Concentration, Policy Capture, and Need for Reform
  Professor Trudo Lemmens (University of Toronto), Dr Christopher Lyon (University of York), Prof Dominic Wilkinson
  Practical Ethics and Law Lectures
• 16:00 - Circulation: Object memory, global exchange, and the first English embassy to India
  Nandini Das (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The Axis of Resistance
  Dr Kamran Matin (University of Sussex), Dr Amal Saad (Cardiff University), Yasmeen al-Eryani (Co-Executive Director, Sana’a Center for Strategic Studies)
  Friday Seminars
• 17:00 - Balancing Commerce and Diplomacy: Japan's Strategy for Economic Security
  Professor Christina Davis (Harvard University)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Monday 10 February 2025

• 11:30 - Irrigation and Inequality
  Dr Adeel Malik (University of Oxford)
  Political Economy Seminar

Tuesday 11 February 2025

• 12:00 - The Art of State Persuasion: China's Strategic Use of Media in Interstate Disputes
  Dr Frances Yaping Wang (Colgate University)
  China Centre talks
• 14:00 - Threatening Dystopias: Development, Scientific Knowledge, and Adaptation to Climate Change
  Kasia Paprocki (The London School of Economics)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Glow Boys: Temporary Workers and the Making of Atomic Capitalism
  Tom Bishop (Lincoln)
  American History Research Seminar
• 16:10 - Resilient Human Development: Advancing human development amidst shocks
  Professor Sabina Alkire (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 17:00 - Tribal Voting in New Democracies: Evidence from 6 Million Tunisian Voter Records
  Associate Professor Steven Brooke (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
  MENA Politics Seminars
• 17:00 - The new European Parliament and European Commission: Who won the 2024 power-play in Brussels?
  Anthony Teasdale (Visiting Professor, LSE and Columbia; former Director General, European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS) (2013-22)), Klaus Welle (Chair, Academic Council, Martens Centre; former Secretary General, European Parliament (2009-22))
  European Studies Seminar
• 17:00 - Navigating Narratives: Tsurayuki's Tosa Diary as History and Fiction
  Professor Gustav Heldt (University of Virginia), Professor Sho Konishi (University of Oxford - History/OSGA), Dr Pan Tomé Valencia (University of Oxford - AMES)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Wednesday 12 February 2025

• 16:30 - Judges Under Pressure - Documentary Screening and Discussion Panel
  Judge Igor Tuleya, Professor Catherine O'Regan (Director of Bonavero), Agnieszka Kubal (Associate Professor, CSLS), Basak Cali (Professor of International Law), Konrad Ksiazek (DPhil candidate)
• 17:00 - Social, Cultural and Political Determinants of Riots
  Professor Kamaldeep Bhui (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:15 - Trading during War. The Baltic in Europe, ca 1550-1850
  Cathleen Sarti (Oxford)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 13 February 2025

• 15:00 - The Macro- and Micro-Politics of AI Standards-Making
  Huw Roberts (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 15:30 - Relational Ethics and Shared Authority in the Making of But I Live: Three Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust
  Charlotte Schallié (Victoria), Meryem Kalayci (Oxford/Birkbeck)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].

Friday 14 February 2025

• 16:00 - Medicine for Ghosts: Visions, Possessions, and Medical Exchange in Early Modern Southeast Asia
  This seminar has been cancelled, due to unforeseen circumstances
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Tara Alberts (York)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 16:00 - Does Liberty Promote Virtue? Postliberalism vs Fusionism (Oxford Conservative Thought, Week 4)
  Kevin Vallier (Bowling Green State University)
  Oxford Conservative Thought Reading Group
• 17:00 - Israeli Public Opinion, War and Prospects for Peace
  Dr Dahlia Scheindlin (Fellow, Century International & Columnist, Haaretz Newspaper)
  Friday Seminars
• 17:00 - Searching for Zan: A More-Than-Human Ethnography of Extinction, Militarism, and Protest in Okinawa
  Dr Marius Palz (Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Monday 17 February 2025

• 11:30 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Hye Young You (Princeton University)
  Political Economy Seminar

Tuesday 18 February 2025

• 11:30 - The "Care" Series - ‘Gender and the Caring Dimension of Welfare States: Toward Inclusive Citizenship’
  Rossella Ciccia
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 14:00 - Plantation Crisis: Ruptures of Dalit Life in the Indian Tea Belt
  Jayaseelan Raj (King's College London)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 16:10 - Commodity Price Shocks and Quality of Employment in Peru
  Beatriz Jambrina (OPHI)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 17:00 - Genocide in Gaza
  Professor Avi Shlaim (MEC Emeritus Fellow)
  Book Talks
• 17:00 - Winant Lecture: The End of Black Politics
  Kimberley Johnson (New York University)

Wednesday 19 February 2025

• 12:00 - Pathways to Conflict in the South China Sea
  Professor David A. Welch (University of Waterloo)
  China Centre talks
• 17:00 - Economic Diversification, State Fragility, and Development in Muslim Societies
  Professor Adnan Khan (FCDO)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - ‘Reconnecting with the Sacred in a Technology-Driven World’ - Saïd Business School's annual Rewley Lecture
  Biz Stone (Twitter, Jelly), Evan Sharp (Pinterest)
• 17:30 - Provost’s Talk with Scarlett Maguire: How We Called a Trump Win
  Lord Mendoza (Oriel College, University of Oxford), Scarlett Maguire (JL Partners)

Thursday 20 February 2025

• 11:45 - The Peter Tatchell Archive: Peter Tatchell in Conversation about his Bodleian Collection
  This talk will be rescheduled
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Peter Tatchell
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 15:00 - Silicon Valley in Context: Technology Corporations as Political Actors
  Alina Utrata (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 17:00 - Feminism in International Security Discourses - How we argue for participation matters
  Karolin Tuncel (Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series

Friday 21 February 2025

• 16:00 - The global nature of Mughal Early Modernity
  Azfar Moin (Austin, Texas)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The chaos (fawḍà) Bashshar al-Asad warned against – Damascus University 10th November 2005 – and present-day Syria
  Professor Johannes Waardenburg (IULM)
  Friday Seminars
• 17:00 - Mori Nao Divorces Her Samurai Husband and His Family Puts Him in a Cage
  Professor Luke Roberts (UC Santa Barbara)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Monday 24 February 2025

• 11:30 - Paying Not to Know: News Avoidance in Times of War
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Moses Shayo (Hebrew University)
  Political Economy Seminar
• 11:30 - Moral Violence
  Raúl Sanchez de la Sierra (University of Chicago)
  Political Economy Seminar

Tuesday 25 February 2025

• 14:00 - Between Nation and Community. Muslim Universities and Indian Politics after Partition (1947-1990s)
  Laurence Gautier (Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Rediscovering James W.C. Pennington, Black Reformed Minister and Activist
  Jan Stievermann (Heidelberg)
  American History Research Seminar
• 16:10 - Poverty and its many faces: An analytical framework for deprivation interlinkages
  Dr Nicolai Suppa (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 17:00 - Food for Spain? Propaganda, civil society, and the humanitarian debate in Oxford during the Spanish Civil War
  Ainhoa Campos Posada (Ramón Areces Visiting Fellow, St Antony’s College, Oxford), Tom Buchanan (University of Oxford)
  European Studies Seminar
• 17:00 - Women’s Religious Leadership in Morocco: A Catalyst for Mudawana Reform
  Dr Sawsene Nejjar (OSGA, University of Oxford)
  Women’s Rights Research Seminars
• 19:00 - Against Ideology: Multi-Text Based Discourse as a Tool for Subverting Dogmatic Thinking
  SHIUR @ OxMEND
  OxMEND (Oxford Middle Eastern Narratives and Discourse) - reading group

Wednesday 26 February 2025

• 12:00 - Mecca in Morocco: Studying the Socio-Cultural Embeddedness of Pilgrimage in Muslim Everyday Life
  Dr Kholoud al-Ajarma (University of Edinburgh)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Coinage of Mughal South Asia and the Muslim Chain of Being
  Professor Azfar Moin (University of Texas, Austin)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Montenegro: EU's next member state?
  SEESOX KEYNOTE LECTURE
  Jakov Milatović (President of Montenegro)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
• 17:15 - What was Grand Strategy in World War II—a look at the US policy of "Germany First"
  Philips Payson O'Brien (St Andrews)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 27 February 2025

• 11:45 - Queer Scholarship on Shakespeare and its Public: Will Tosh and Emma Smith in Conversation
  Please note the change of venue
  Will Tosh (Globe Theatre), Emma Smith (Oxford)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 15:00 - Title TBC
  Haydn Belfield (Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 17:00 - Attitudes Toward Normalization in a Conflict Context: Evidence from the Arab-Israeli Conflict
  Dr Ibrahim Khatib (Doha Institute)
• 17:15 - “God Will Not Stay Silent”: Gershom Scholem, Zionism, Messianism, and Binational Thinking
  All attendees must register in advance and agree to the terms and conditions of the event: www.worc.ox.ac.uk/fos/massada-2025
  Professor Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin (Ben Gurion University, Israel)
  Massada Public Seminars
• 17:30 - Sustainability Education: Power and Politics
  Chris Skidmore (LSE), Debbie Hopkins (TSU - Oxford)

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
• 17:00 - *CANCELLED* Public opinion in Palestine since 7 October
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Professor Khalil Shikaki (Director, Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research)
  Friday Seminars
• 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 - Smugglers and States: Negotiating the Maghreb at Its Margins
  Dr Max Gallien (Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex)
  Book Talks
• 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].
• 15:00 - The Ethics of AI for Intelligence
  Cancelled and rescheduled for Trinity Term
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  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

• 12:00 - Land and the Origins of Contemporary Politics in Asia - Mainland China, Taiwan, Indonesia and Malaysia
  Professor William Hurst (University of Cambridge)
  China Centre talks
• 17:00 - From Jihad to Politics: How Syrian Jihadis Embraced Politics
  Dr Jerome Drevon (Senior Analyst, Crisis Group)
  Book Talks
• 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
  Due to unforeseen circumstances this seminar has been cancelled.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  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 - Understanding Syria through Syrian Voices: Refugees’ Stories of Revolution, War, and the Struggle for Home
  Professor Wendy Pearlman (Northwestern University)
  Book Talks
• 17:00 - The End of Engagement: America's China and Russia 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 - Do we really owe Arabs nothing?
  Professor Fouad Laroui (Professor of epistemology and writer)
  Friday Seminars
• 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

Saturday 15 March 2025

• 10:00 - The Roles of Women's and Civil Society Activism in Sudan and South Sudan
  Various Speakers

Monday 17 March 2025

• 11:30 - Relationships & Responsibility
  Laura Boudreau (Columbia Business School)
  Political Economy Seminar
• 16:30 - AI and Warfare
  Stephen Rosen (Harvard), Shivaji Sondhi (University of Oxford)

Thursday 20 March 2025

• 16:00 - Book launch "Ethnos of the Earth: International Order and the Emergence of Ethnicity"
  Dr Faridah Zaman (Somerville College, Oxford), Dr Musab Younis (St Edmund's Hall, Oxford), Dr Jaakko Heiskanen (Queen Mary University of London)

Monday 24 March 2025

• 17:00 - Public Lecture: Post-Islamism – A Critique of Muslim Exceptionalism and Democratization in Muslim-Majority Contexts
  Various Speakers

Friday 25 April 2025

• 12:00 - Governing Digital China
  Prof Daniela Stockmann (The Hertie School)
  China Centre talks

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
• 14:00 - A Kerala Pilgrimage Approaches Its Centenary - why it matters for South India and the wider world
  Alex Gath (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:30 - Book launch: Matt Myers, The Halted March of the European Left: The Working Class in Britain, France, and Italy, 1968–1989 (OUP, 2025)
  Matt Myers (Oxford)

Tuesday 6 May 2025

• 17:00 - East of Empire: Egypt, India, and the World between the Wars
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Erin M.B. O’Halloran (University of Cambridge)
  Book Talks

Wednesday 7 May 2025

• 12:00 - The Unfinished Modernisation: Women’s Cinema in China’s Reform Era
  Associate Professor Lidan Hu (Sichuan University)
  China Centre talks
• 17:30 - Women and the Unions - Challenging Inequality
  Mr John Bowers KC (Principal, Brasenose College, Oxford)
  Celebrating 50 Years of Women at Brasenose

Thursday 8 May 2025

• 17:00 - Radhakrishnan Lecture 1: Acceleration as a Riposte to Colonialism
  Sunil Amrith (Yale University)
  Radhakrishnan Lecture Series 2025: The Developmental State in Climate Crisis

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
• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Emrah Karakuş (LSE)
  Women’s Rights Research Seminars

Wednesday 14 May 2025

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

Thursday 15 May 2025

• 17:00 - After the End of the World: Another Season of War in South Lebanon
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Munira Khayyat (NYU Abu Dhabi)
• 17:00 - Radhakrishnan Lecture 2: Population as a Planetary Force
  Sunil Amrith (Yale University)
  Radhakrishnan Lecture Series 2025: The Developmental State in Climate Crisis

Friday 16 May 2025

• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Michael Wolfson (Wolfson Design)
  Friday Seminars

Monday 19 May 2025

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

Tuesday 20 May 2025

• 14:00 - Labour as Method: Studying Technologies of the South
  Hemangini Gupta (University of Edinburgh)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 15:00 - Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant
  Curtis Chin (Writer, Producer, Director)
  China Centre talks
• 17:00 - The World After Gaza
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Pankaj Mishra
  Book Talks

Thursday 22 May 2025

• 17:00 - Radhakrishnan Lecture 3: The Freedom to Breathe
  Sunil Amrith (Yale University)
  Radhakrishnan Lecture Series 2025: The Developmental State in Climate Crisis

Friday 23 May 2025

• 17:00 - Devaki Jain Lecture
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Rana Husseini (journalist and activist)
  Friday Seminars

Monday 26 May 2025

• 12:00 - Institutional Genes: The Origins of China’s Institutions and Totalitarianism
  Dr Chenggang Xu (Stanford University)
  China Centre talks

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
• 17:00 - Slavery, Abolition and Islam: Debating Freedom in the Islamic Tradition
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Haroon Bashir (Markfield Institute of Higher Education)
  Book Talks

Wednesday 28 May 2025

• 17:00 - NGOization of the Palestinian civil society post-Oslo: our community-based ways out
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Amal Nazzal (Birzeit University), Suheir Assad (Palestinian lawyer and activist)
• 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

Friday 30 May 2025

• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Samer Abdelnour (University of Edinburgh Business School)
  Friday Seminars

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
• 17:00 - States and Social Hierarchies in Kuwait and the Arab Gulf Region
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Lisa Blaydes (Stanford University)
  Women’s Rights Research Seminars

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

Tuesday 10 June 2025

• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Tareq Baconi (Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network)

Thursday 12 June 2025

• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Joseph Giovannini (Giovannini Associates)

Monday 16 June 2025

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