Monday 9 February 2015 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Monday 2 March 2015 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Arrangements of Convenience Among Violent Non-State Actors
  Annette Idler (Oxford)
  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 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

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

Monday 1 June 2015 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

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

Monday 8 June 2015 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

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

Monday 15 June 2015 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

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

Monday 5 October 2015 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Tuesday 13 October 2015 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Trans-Nationalizing US religious history : Billy Graham in New York, London, and Berlin, 1950-70
  Uta Balbier (King's College London)
  American History Research Seminar

Friday 16 October 2015 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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

Tuesday 20 October 2015 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - American Jewish International Humanitarianism in the Progressive Era
  Jaclyn Granick (Newton International Research Fellow, Oxford)
  American History Research Seminar

Friday 23 October 2015 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 26 October 2015 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Tuesday 27 October 2015 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - The Feminist Roots of American Neo-Liberalism
  Marc-William Palen (Exeter and RAI)
  American History Research Seminar

Friday 30 October 2015 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - The Electric Chair, Modernisation and the Early Twentieth Century American South
  Vivien Miller (Nottingham)
  American History Research Seminar
• 14:00 - The Raj at War
  Yasmin Khan (Oxford)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Friday 6 November 2015 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Tuesday 10 November 2015 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Politics and the Promise of Bhagat Singh
  Chris Moffat (Queen Mary)
  Modern South Asia Seminar
• 16:00 - British Intervention in the American Civil War: Case Closed?
  TBA
  American History Research Seminar

Friday 13 November 2015 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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
• 17:00 - Isolationism as an Urban legend (Harmsworth Visiting Professorship of American History inaugural Lecture
  Kristin Hoganson (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne)
  American History Research Seminar

Wednesday 18 November 2015 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Discussion of Harmsworth Lecture
  TBA
  American History Research Seminar
• 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 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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
• 16:00 - The Interdisciplinary Converstation
  TBA
  American History Research Seminar

Friday 27 November 2015 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Tuesday 1 December 2015 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - The Making of a Constitution: Pakistan and the Question of Sovereignty
  Yaqoob Khan Bangash (Lahore)
  Modern South Asia Seminar
• 16:00 - “Separate and Unequal: The Kerner Commission and the Politics of Race in Modern America.”
  Steven M. Gillon (Oklahoma; History Channel)
  American History Research Seminar

Friday 22 January 2016 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Spirits of Discord and Everyday Labours of Peace: Intercommunal Relations in Amroha
  Laurent Gayer (Scievnces-Po)
  Modern South Asia Seminar
• 16:00 - Book Launch: “Liberty and Coercion: The Paradox of American Government from the Founding to the Present”
  Gary Gerstle (Cambridge)
  American History Research Seminar

Friday 29 January 2016 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

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

Monday 1 February 2016 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

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

Tuesday 2 February 2016 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Postgraduate Research Seminar
  Amar Sohal, Ria Kapoor, Daniel Hunt
  Modern South Asia Seminar
• 16:00 - “The Nation of Islam, Louis Farrakhan and the men who follow him. ”
  Dawn-Marie Gibson (Royal Holloway)
  American History Research Seminar

Friday 5 February 2016 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Tuesday 9 February 2016 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - American Presidential Elections in History
  Donald Ratcliffe (RAI), Andrew Rudalevige (Bowdoin)
  American History Research Seminar
• 14:00 - Postgraduate Research Seminar
  Gautham Shiralagi, Smriti Sawkar, Conor Meleady
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Friday 12 February 2016 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Friday 19 February 2016 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Postgraduate Research Seminar
  Niroshini Sundaresan, Emile Rolland, Sam McNeil
  Modern South Asia Seminar
• 16:00 - “Henry Cabot Lodge and the Decline of the Eastern Establishment.”
  Luke Nichter (RAI Visiting Fellow, Texas A&M)
  American History Research Seminar

Friday 26 February 2016 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:00 - Workshop on Pakistani Historiography
  TBA
  Modern South Asia Seminar
• 16:00 - “The United States and the Refugee Convention of 1951”
  Linda Kerber (Iowa)
  American History Research Seminar

Friday 4 March 2016 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Monday 7 March 2016 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Tuesday 26 April 2016 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

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

Monday 9 May 2016 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Banking reform: The limits of prudence
  Ian Plenderleith (Morgan Stanley International; Former Bank of England)
  Political Economy of Financial Markets Programme

Tuesday 24 May 2016 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

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

Wednesday 25 May 2016 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - An Introduction to Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative
  Lunch Provided
  Professor Sabina Alkire (University of Oxford)
  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 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Lunch Provided
  TBA
  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 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - The choice of weights in multidimensional poverty measurement - An empirical validation
  Lunch Provided
  Michael Schleicher ( South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University)
  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 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - The Research agenda on multidimensional poverty: important and as-yet unanswered questions
  Lunch Provided
  Professor Sabina Alkire (University of Oxford)
  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 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Measurement and determinants of child multidimensional poverty in Senegal
  Lunch Provided
  Bouba Housseini (University of Oxford)
  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 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Monday 14 November 2016 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Changes in multidimensional poverty among countries in Sub-Saharan Africa – Results for 35 Countries
  Lunch Provided
  Christoph Jindra (University of Oxford)
  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 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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

Wednesday 16 November 2016 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Urbanisation, migration and the future metropolis
  Michael Keith (COMPAS, University of Oxford)
  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 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Tuesday 22 November 2016 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Thursday 24 November 2016 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Do alternative measures of poverty matter? A comparison between consumption poverty and multidimensional poverty in Indonesia
  Lunch Provided
  TBA
  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 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Thursday 15 December 2016 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Monday 16 January 2017 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 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
• 14:00 - Touch, Tea-Drinking, and the Organisation of Desire in London, 1890-1932
  Simeon Koole (Magdalen College)
  Modern British History 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 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 - Family and Empire: Kinship and British Colonialism in the East India Company Era, c. 1750-1850

Monday 23 January 2017 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 - Advertisements of Every Kind to Bring their Brand into Notoriety”: Brand Innovation and “Brandolatry” in the Nineteenth-Century Champagne Trade
  Graham Harding (St Cross College)
  Modern British History 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 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 - Family and Empire: Kinship and British Colonialism in the East India Company Era, c. 1750-1850

Monday 30 January 2017 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 - The “Value” of Bodies and the “Worth” of Grief: Towards an Emotional Economy of Death in Second World War Britain
  Lucy Noakes (Brighton University)
  Modern British History 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 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 - Family and Empire: Kinship and British Colonialism in the East India Company Era, c. 1750-1850

Monday 6 February 2017 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 - Conservative and Labour Research Departments and the EEC Debate, 1970-75
  Mikko Lievonen (St Edmund Hall)
  Modern British History 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 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 - Family and Empire: Kinship and British Colonialism in the East India Company Era, c. 1750-1850

Monday 13 February 2017 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 - Musicology, Adult Education, and Post-War Intellectual Culture: Wilfrid Mellers at the University of Birmingham’s Extramural Department, 1948-64
  Beau Woodbury (Wolfson Collge)
  Modern British History Seminar
• 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 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 - Family and Empire: Kinship and British Colonialism in the East India Company Era, c. 1750-1850

Monday 20 February 2017 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 - The Idea of “the Establishment” in Post-War British Politics
  Stuart Middleton (University of Cambridge)
  Modern British History 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 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 - Family and Empire: Kinship and British Colonialism in the East India Company Era, c. 1750-1850

Monday 27 February 2017 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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
• 16:00 - ‘“O Say Can You See”? Art, Propaganda, and the First World War’
  Professor David Lubin (Wake Forest University)
  The United States and World War One

Wednesday 1 March 2017 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 - Discussion of 2017 Ford Lectures in British History, ‘History in English Criticism 1919-1961’
  Stefan Collini (University of Cambridge)
  Modern British History 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 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Wednesday 15 March 2017 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Saturday 22 April 2017 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

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

Sunday 23 April 2017 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

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

Monday 24 April 2017 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 - ‘The Nye Commission and America’s entry into World War One’
  Professor Christopher Capozzola (Massachusetts Institute of Technology )
  The United States and World War One
• 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 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - The First World War and Housing in Britain
  Calum White
  Modern British History Seminar
• 17:00 - How to Rig an Election: Reflections on Ten Years of Studying Democracy
  Nic Cheeseman
  African Studies Seminar Series

Monday 1 May 2017 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - The Conservatives and Industrial Reorganisation, 1931-40: the Growth of the State.
  William Prescott, Rebecca Brown
  Modern British History Seminar
• 17:00 - An Uncertain Age: The Politics of Manhood in Kenya
  Paul Ocobock (Notre Dame)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Monday 8 May 2017 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 College, University of Oxford )
  The United States and World War One
• 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 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - ‘Loved by the women of the East End and women of the West End’?
  Lyndsey Jenkins
  Modern British History Seminar
• 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 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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
• 14:00 - 1. The Forward March of Labour Halted / 2. 'To address ourselves violently towards the present as it is’
  Matthew Myers, Max Shock
  Modern British History Seminar
• 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 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - ‘This morning a man was hanged. This Evening we had a concert’: Music, Nationalism and Northern Ireland, 1923-1967.
  Richard Parfitt
  Modern British History Seminar
• 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 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

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

Monday 29 May 2017 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

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

Tuesday 30 May 2017 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 History Seminar

Friday 2 June 2017 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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

Wednesday 7 June 2017 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - '“It was just a fiasco”: Polarization, Congress, and the Top-two Primary Format'
  Mike Norton (University of Oxford)

Thursday 8 June 2017 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

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

Monday 12 June 2017 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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
  Talking Oxford: Trinity Term COMPAS seminar series

Monday 19 June 2017 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (20th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

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

Monday 9 October 2017 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - A Penchant for Personal Diplomacy: Callaghan, Ford, and Carter
  Todd Carter (University College)
  American History Graduate Seminar
• 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)
  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 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Refugees’ right to work and access to labour markets
  Roger Zetter (Refugee Studies Centre), Jessica Hagen-Zanker (Overseas Development Institute (ODI)), Geertrui Lanneau (International Organization for Migration (IOM))
  Refugees and the Economy
• 17:00 - Ewen Green Memorial Lecture: ‘Ideologies of Education in Twentieth Century Britain’
  Peter Mandler (Cambridge)
  Modern British History Seminar
• 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 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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

Monday 16 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Work Habits and Practices (Study Skills Session)
  TBA
  American History Graduate Seminar
• 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)
  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 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - ‘Free Markets and Feminism: The Neo-Liberal Defence of the Male Bread-Winner Model in Britain, c. 1980-1997’
  Ben Jackson (University College)
  Modern British History Seminar
• 14:00 - Understanding the economic outcomes of refugees in the UK
  Isabel Ruiz (Harris Manchester College)
  Refugees and the Economy
• 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 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 - 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 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Better Surroundings: Child-savers, delinquency, and spaces for children in Chicago, 1890- 1920
  Nonie Kubie (St Cross)
  American History Graduate Seminar
• 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)
  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 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - ‘Losing the War: Conservatism, Grief, and Consensus in Britain after 1945’
  Kit Kowol (Christ Church College)
  Modern British History Seminar
• 14:00 - Using market design to improve refugee resettlement
  Alex Teytelboym (University of Oxford)
  Refugees and the Economy
• 17:00 - China and Africa: a Diplomatic Perspective
  Ambassador Jianhua Zhong, Yuzhou Sun (University of Oxford)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Friday 27 October 2017 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (Oxford), Ruth Mayne (Oxfam)
  Re-Engaging Truth Seminar Series

Monday 30 October 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - From Rumford to Riots: The Rising of Reagan, 1963-66
  Dominic Barker (Lady Margaret Hall)
  American History Graduate Seminar
• 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)
  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 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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)
• 14:00 - The local environment shapes refugee integration: evidence from post-war Germany
  Sebastian Till Braun (University of St Andrews)
  Refugees and the Economy
• 17:00 - Roundtable Discussion on British Historiography and Race
  Various Speakers
  Modern British History Seminar
• 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 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 - 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 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - `Some Pretty Amazing Political Clout': The Surprising Survival of Volunteers in Service to America
  Mitchell Robertson (University College)
  American History Graduate Seminar
• 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)
  Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 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 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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
• 17:30 - 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 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - ‘Neoliberalism as a Category in Contemporary British History’
  Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite (UCL)
  Modern British History Seminar
• 14:00 - The impact of the asylum process on long-term refugee integration
  Dominik Hangartner (LSE)
  Refugees and the Economy
• 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 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 - 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 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:00 - Society for Decision Making under Deep Uncertainty Annual Workshop
  Various Speakers
• 12:00 - `Women Strategising in the '90s': Women, AIDS, and a New Generation of Feminism in 1990s New York
  Emma Day (Pembroke)
  American History Graduate Seminar
• 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)
  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 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - ‘Prayer and Political Imagination: Revisiting Late Nineteenth-Century Feminism’
  Sarah Williams (Regent College, Vancouver)
  Modern British History Seminar
• 14:00 - Facilitating the integration of refugees in the UK’s labour market
  Roy Millard (South East Strategic Partnership for Migration), Siân Sanders (Cardiff & the Vale of Glamorgan Council), Peter Grady (UNHCR-London)
  Refugees and the Economy
• 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 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 - 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 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - National 'Credit': U.S. Foreign Relations and the national debt after the Civil War, 1865- 1869
  Chris Nitschke (Keble)
  American History Graduate Seminar
• 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 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:00 - Revisiting Yugoslavia in the shadow of the present: Continuities and discontinuities
  Please check website (:)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
• 14:00 - ‘An Ethical Foreign Policy? The Labour Party and British Overseas Development at the End of Empire’
  Charlotte Riley (Southampton)
  Modern British History Seminar
• 14:00 - The Refugee Crisis in Europe: Border Policies and Unauthorized Flows
  Francesco Fasani (Queen Mary University of London)
  Refugees and the Economy
• 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 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 - Designing a ‘Turning the Dial’ research project
  TBA
  Re-Engaging Truth Seminar Series

Monday 27 November 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Changing the Game: Richard Nixon and the Politicisation of American Football
  Rivers Gambrell (Kellogg)
  American History Graduate Seminar
• 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)
  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 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Thursday 30 November 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Migration research and control in the age of big data
  Linnet Taylor (Tilburg University)
  Technology and Mobilities in Africa
• 14:00 - Syrian Refugees in the Jordanian Labour Market
  Jackie Wahba (University of Southampton)
  Refugees and the Economy
• 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 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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

Wednesday 6 December 2017 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Monday 15 January 2018 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - John Gallison’s Journals: Self-Portrait of a Third-Generation Federalist in Boston
  Stephen Symchych (St. Anthony’s )
  American History Graduate Seminar
• 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)
  Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series

Tuesday 16 January 2018 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 - ‘Unmaking Stereotypes: A Comparison of the Political Cultures of Britain and Australia’
  Ross McKibbin (St John’s)
  Modern British History 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 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 - Family and Empire: Kinship and British Colonialism in the East India Company Era, c. 1750-1850

Monday 22 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Skills Session: The Historical Interpretation of Visual Imagery
  Mara Keire (Rothermere American Institute )
  American History Graduate Seminar
• 17:00 - Price and financial stability: Rethinking financial markets
  David Harrison (DAC Beachcroft)
  Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM)

Tuesday 23 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 - ‘Popular Political Thought: The Case of the Chartists’
  Josh Gibson (LMH)
  Modern British History 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 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 - Family and Empire: Kinship and British Colonialism in the East India Company Era, c. 1750-1850

Monday 29 January 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - The Religious System of Northeastern North America
  Daniel Green (Wadham )
  American History Graduate Seminar
• 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)
  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 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 1 February 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - The ‘Third World’ as an Effect of the Social Sciences
  Daniel Speich Chassé (Lucerne)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 14:00 - ‘A “Cake-Makers’ Division”? Labour Women and the Practice of Politics in South-East England c. 1931-1939’
  Owen Sellers (Hertford)
  Modern British History 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 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 - Family and Empire: Kinship and British Colonialism in the East India Company Era, c. 1750-1850

Monday 5 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Skills Session: ‘An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe’
  Benjamin Madley (University of California, Los Angeles )
  American History Graduate Seminar
• 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)
  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 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - 'Eastern Gurus and Western Followers: the Spirituality of Nationalism in the 'Global Idealist Moment'.
  Ruth Harris
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 14:00 - ‘The Rise of the “Synthetic Gaels”: Irish Protestant Nationalists and the Extremes of Identification, c.1908-23’
  Conor Morrissey (Hertford)
  Modern British History 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 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 - Family and Empire: Kinship and British Colonialism in the East India Company Era, c. 1750-1850

Monday 12 February 2018 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Literature Review: Congress and the States, 1781-1800
  Grace Mallon (University College)
  American History Graduate Seminar
• 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)
  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 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Children of the Rising: A Traumatic History of Easter 1916
  Caoimhe Nic Dháibhéid (Sheffield)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 14:00 - ‘Roads to Higher Education: Working-Class Women’s Experiences of Applying to University, c.1960s-1970s’
  Bethany White (Trinity)
  Modern British History 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 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 - 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 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - 'It troubles me that he played center': Gerald Ford, Football, and Image Politics in the Shadow of Watergate
  Rivers Gambrell (Kellogg)
  American History Graduate Seminar
• 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)
  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 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 - ‘Child Protection in an Era of “Public Service Sensationalism”: Child Welfare and the Popular Press, 1933-1970’
  CANCELLED
  Jono Taylor (Magdalen)
  Modern British History 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 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 - Family and Empire: Kinship and British Colonialism in the East India Company Era, c. 1750-1850

Monday 26 February 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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)
  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 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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)
  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 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 - ‘Great expectations: Childhood, Family, and Middle Class Social Mobility in Nineteenth-Century England’
  Christina de Bellaigue (Exeter)
  Modern British History 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 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Monday 5 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - "Cooking up financial schemes: selling the United States, 1870-73".
  Chris Nitschke (Keble)
  American History Graduate Seminar
• 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)
  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 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 - ‘Representing the Nation: Scottish Nationalism and Europe, 1967-
  CANCELLED
  Malcolm Petrie (St Andrews)
  Modern British History 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 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Wednesday 28 March 2018 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Wednesday 11 April 2018 (-1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Scaling the Nation: England in World Histories: graduate and early career researcher discussion of pre-circulated paper and advice on publishing in Twentieth-Century British History
  Guy Ortolano (New York University)
  Modern British History Seminar

Monday 23 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - “Howie Phillips and his wrecking crew”: The conservatives (try to) take the bureaucracy
  Mitchell Robertson (University College)
  American History Graduate Seminar
• 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 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Battle Imaginaries in World Politics
  Dr Tarak Barkawi (London School of Economics)
  SoGE Political Worlds Cluster Events
• 14:00 - ‘The working lives of Irish women in late nineteenth-century England’, ‘Overtures from Germany: Music, War, and Memory in Britain, 1934-1955’ & ‘The British Left and the Idea of Community in the 1970s’
  Beth Kitson (Balliol), Michael Nixon (Lincoln), Nicholas Garland (Univ)
  Modern British History Seminar
• 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 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Skills Session: Book Proposals
  Various Speakers
  American History Graduate Seminar
• 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 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 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

Wednesday 2 May 2018 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - 'Languages of Imperialism in British First World War Propaganda.’
  Gregory Hynes (Pembroke)
  Modern British History Seminar
• 17:00 - UN, Political Islam, and the Middle East
  Edward Mortimer (University of Oxford)

Friday 4 May 2018 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

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

Monday 7 May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Jimmy Carter and the Failed US-China Secret Talks on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
  Sheng Peng (St. Antony’s )
  American History Graduate Seminar
• 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 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 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)