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

Friday 26 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

Women's political agency and diplomatic practices in Denmark-Norway during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars
Date: 26 April 2024, 11:00 - 12:15 (Friday, 1st week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Dr Kristine Dyrmann (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room, Faculty of History, 41-47 George St, OX1 2BE
Organisers: Emma Teworte (University of Oxford), Leonie Bramwell (University of Oxford), Emilia Flack (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

LGBTQ Identity in China
Date: 26 April 2024, 14:00 - 16:00 (Friday, 1st week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Ho Tim Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Mental Capacity: Why it doesn't and shouldn't matter much in medical law and ethics
Date: 26 April 2024, 15:00 - 16:30 (Friday, 1st week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Jonathan Herring (University of Oxford)
Venue: Littlegate House, 16-17 St Ebbe's Street OX1 1PT
Venue Details: Suite 1, Buzzer no. 1
Organiser: Binesh Hass (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

From the Maidan to Mariupol: Civil Resistance in Ukraine 1990-2024
Date: 26 April 2024, 17:00 - 18:45 (Friday, 1st week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Olga Onuch (University of Manchester)
Venue: St Antony's College - Main Site, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Auditorium
Organiser: Julie Adams (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Adam Roberts (University of Oxford)

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

The United Nations and the Question of Palestine
Date: 29 April 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Monday, 2nd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Dr Adri Imseis (Queen's University)
Venue: 68 Woodstock Road, Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: MEC Boardroom
Organiser: MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host: Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, Oxford)

Oxford Political Review Issue 12 Launch Event: Utopia
Date: 29 April 2024, 17:30 - 18:30 (Monday, 2nd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Duncan Bell (Cambridge)
Venue: Daubeny Building, Rose Lane OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Next to entrance to the Botanic Gardens
Organisers: Ming Kit Wong (Magdalen College), Oxford Political Review
Hosts: TBA

Growing older in Africa: Community-oriented evidence across the life course
Date: 29 April 2024, 18:00 - 19:00 (Monday, 2nd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker s: Professor Alan Stein (University of Oxford), Kathleen Kahn (University of Witwatersrand Johannesburg), Steve Tollman (University of Witwatersrand Johannesburg)
Venue: Blavatnik School of Government, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter OX2 6GG
Venue Details: in person and online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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

"Politics and Persecution: Pashto, Pashtun and Pashtunistan" - Autobiography of Samad Khan Achakzai
Date: 30 April 2024, 14:00 - 15:30 (Tuesday, 2nd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Ayaz Achakzai (Independent Public Policy Expert)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser: Thiruni Kelegama (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Special Lecture: Time to Get Ready: Resistance Through My Lens
Date: 30 April 2024, 17:00 - 18:15 (Tuesday, 2nd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Maria Varela
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Emily Brady (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Unfulfilled Dreams: China’s 'Liberal' Communist Party Intellectuals’ Struggle for Democracy from the 1930s to the 2000s
Date: 30 April 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Tuesday, 2nd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Dr Verna Yu (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)

Howard Covington on AI & Climate Change - Adrian Fernando Memorial Lecture
Date: 30 April 2024, 17:00 - 19:00 (Tuesday, 2nd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Howard Covington (Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford)
Venue: St Hilda's College, Cowley Place OX4 1DY
Venue Details: Riverside Pavilion, St Hilda's College, Cowley Place, Oxford OX4 1DY
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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

How Regulation Can Revive China’s Sagging Economy?
Date: 1 May 2024, 12:00 - 13:00 (Wednesday, 2nd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Professor Angela Zhang (University of Hong Kong)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Oxford Technology & Security Nexus — China's AI Posture and Capabilities
Date: 1 May 2024, 15:00 - 16:00 (Wednesday, 2nd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Sihao Huang (University of Oxford Department of Politics and International Relations)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Please email elisabeth.siegel@politics.ox.ac.uk to be able to attend.
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Sufism in Al-Sanusi’s Theological Works
Date: 1 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Wednesday, 2nd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Dr Tobias Andersson (Uppsala University)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Local Authority and Private Enterprise: Provisioning the Habsburg Army from the Seven Years War
Date: 1 May 2024, 17:15 - 18:15 (Wednesday, 2nd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : William Godsey (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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

Book Launch: Tabernacles in the Wilderness: The US Christian Commission on the Civil War Battlefront
Date: 2 May 2024, 12:30 - 13:45 (Thursday, 2nd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Dr Rachel Williams (University of Hull)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Transfer of Status Presentations
Date: 2 May 2024, 14:00 - 15:30 (Thursday, 2nd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker s: Kenneth Wong, Natalie Martz
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: Larkin Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Loving Someone Whose Death Wouldn’t Matter
Date: 2 May 2024, 16:15 - 18:00 (Thursday, 2nd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Professor Elizabeth Harman (Princeton University)
Venue: H B Allen Centre,
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Roger Crisp (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Roger Crisp (University of Oxford)

The Future of Work in the Age of AI
Date: 2 May 2024, 17:00 - 19:00 (Thursday, 2nd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Saïd Business School, Park End Street OX1 1HP
Venue Details: Nelson Mandela Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Sanjaya Lall Memorial Fund, Said Business School, Oxford Water Network
Hosts: TBA

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

Health, gender, and embodiment in the Punjabi Print sphere (1898-1948)
Date: 3 May 2024, 11:00 - 12:15 (Friday, 2nd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Nikita Azad (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room, Faculty of History, 41-47 George St, OX1 2BE
Organisers: Leonie Bramwell (University of Oxford), Emma Teworte (University of Oxford), Emlia Flack (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Right-Wing Discourse in Online Chinese Spaces
Date: 3 May 2024, 14:00 - 16:00 (Friday, 2nd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Ho Tim Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Humanitarian Aid in Autocracies: the risk of Compromised Neutrality
Date: 3 May 2024, 17:15 - 18:50 (Friday, 2nd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Dr Melanie Sauter (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: LMH Old Library
Organiser: Liz Carmichael (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Dr Melanie.Sauter (University of Oxford), Prof. Shelley McKeown Jones (University of Oxford)

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

Evaluating Citizens' Assemblies: Facing challenges and exploring new perspectives
Date: 6 May 2024, 15:00 - 18:00 (Monday, 3rd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: 70 Woodstock Road, 70 Woodstock Road OX2 6HR
Venue Details: Seminar Room, European Studies Centre
Organiser: Julie Adams (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Aliénor Ballangé (St Antony's College, Oxford)

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

Performing Sovereign Aspirations: Tamil Insurgency and Postwar Transition in Sri Lanka
Date: 7 May 2024, 14:00 - 15:35 (Tuesday, 3rd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Bart Klem (Gothenburg University, Sweden)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser: Thiruni Kelegama (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Reflections on Tunisian Women’s Continued Fight for Respect, Dignity and Rights
Date: 7 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Tuesday, 3rd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Dr Heba El-Shazli (George Mason University)
Venue: 68 Woodstock Road, Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: MEC Boardroom
Organiser: Humeyra Biricik (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Maryam Alemzadeh (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

Kyoto Prize at Oxford 2024: Laureates Panel
Date: 7 May 2024, 18:00 - 19:00 (Tuesday, 3rd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker s: Professor Ngaire Woods (Dean, Blavatnik School of Government), Dr Elliott H Lieb (Princeton University), Nalini Malani (Artist)
Venue: Blavatnik School of Government, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter OX2 6GG
Venue Details: online only
Organiser: Blavatnik School of Government (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

Kyoto Prize at Oxford 2024: Dr Elliott H Lieb - My journey through physics and mathematics
Date: 8 May 2024, 11:00 - 12:00 (Wednesday, 3rd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker s: Dr Elliott H Lieb (Princeton University), Professor Shivaji Sondhi (University of Oxford)
Venue: Blavatnik School of Government, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter OX2 6GG
Venue Details: in person and online
Organiser: Blavatnik School of Government (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Reconceptualising the EU-member states relationship in the age of permanent emergency
Date: 8 May 2024, 12:30 - 14:15 (Wednesday, 3rd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker s: Stella Ladi (Queen Mary University of London), Paul Copeland (Queen Mary University of London), Georgios Kostakos (Foundation for Global Governance and Sustainability (FOGGS))
Venue: 70 Woodstock Road, 70 Woodstock Road OX2 6HR
Venue Details: Seminar Room, European Studies Centre
Organisers: TBA
Host: Federica Genovese (St Antony’s College, Oxford)

Oxford Technology & Security Nexus - Taiwan's satellite production & geopolitics
Date: 8 May 2024, 15:00 - 16:00 (Wednesday, 3rd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Yi-Ting Chang (University of Oxford, School of Geography and the Environment)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Please email elisabeth.siegel@politics.ox.ac.uk to be able to attend.
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Kyoto Prize at Oxford 2024: Nalini Malani - My Reality is Different
Date: 8 May 2024, 15:00 - 16:30 (Wednesday, 3rd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker s: Nalini Malani (Artist), Mallica Kumbera Landrus (Ashmolean)
Venue: Blavatnik School of Government, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter OX2 6GG
Venue Details: in person and online
Organiser: Blavatnik School of Government (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Book Launch: Merze Tate: The Global Odyssey of a Black Woman Scholar
Date: 8 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:15 (Wednesday, 3rd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Professor Barbara Savage (University of Pennsylvania)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organisers: Professor Adam Smith (Rothermere American Institute), Patricia Owens (University of Oxford), Dr Sophie Smith (Christ Church, Oxford University)
Hosts: TBA

Chinggis Khan’s Empire Restored? The Conquests of Tamerlane in a Mongol Perspective
Date: 8 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Wednesday, 3rd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Professor Peter Jackson (Keele University)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Principal's Conversations: Con Coughlin
Date: 8 May 2024, 17:30 - 18:30 (Wednesday, 3rd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker s: Mr John Bowers KC (Principal, Brasenose College, Oxford), Con Coughlin
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Amersi Foundation Lecture Room
Organiser: Kate Roberts (Principal's Office, Brasenose College)
Hosts: TBA

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

Transfer of Status Presentations
Date: 9 May 2024, 14:00 - 15:30 (Thursday, 3rd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker s: Gabrielle Davies, Thomas Wang, Carys Howell
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: Larkin Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

When Does Love Make a Baby?
Date: 9 May 2024, 16:15 - 18:00 (Thursday, 3rd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Professor Elizabeth Harman (Princeton University)
Venue: H B Allen Centre,
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Roger Crisp (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Roger Crisp (University of Oxford)

‘Black Internationalism's Politics of Land’
Date: 9 May 2024, 16:45 - 17:45 (Thursday, 3rd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Dr Christine Okoth (KCL)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Large seminar room, Rothermere American Institute
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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

Collaboration during the Second Sino-Japanese War
Date: 10 May 2024, 14:00 - 16:00 (Friday, 3rd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Ho Tim Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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

How to do public philosophy: a lunchtime workshop with Anastasia Berg
Date: 13 May 2024, 12:30 - 14:00 (Monday, 4th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Seminar room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

'What Are Children For? On Ambivalence and Choice.' A symposium with Anastasia Berg (Hebrew University of Jerusalem). With comments from Tom Whyman (Liverpool), Maya Krishnan (All Souls), and Rachel Fraser (Oxford).
Date: 13 May 2024, 15:15 - 17:15 (Monday, 4th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker s: Dr Anastasia Berg (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Dr Tom Whyman (University of Liverpool), Dr Maya Krishnan (University of Oxford), Dr Rachel Fraser (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Fitzhugh Auditorium
Organiser: Dr Rachel Fraser (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

The nationalisation of rice. The postwar global crisis and the emergence of India’s national economy
Date: 14 May 2024, 14:00 - 15:30 (Tuesday, 4th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Jon Wilson (King's College London)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser: Thiruni Kelegama (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

Oxford Technology & Security Nexus — Political and Environmental Impact of AI Supply Chains
Date: 15 May 2024, 15:00 - 16:00 (Wednesday, 4th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Ana Valdivia (The Oxford Internet Institute)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Please email elisabeth.siegel@politics.ox.ac.uk to be able to attend.
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Public Talk: Immigration Politics in an Age of Uncertainty
Date: 15 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:15 (Wednesday, 4th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker s: Dr Terri Givens (McGill University), Professor Justin Gest (George Mason University), Professor Tim Bale (Queen Mary University), Professor Jason Casellas (University of Houston)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Qaum, Mulk, Sultanat: Citizenship and National Belonging in Pakistan
Date: 15 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Wednesday, 4th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Ali Usman Qasmi (LUMS)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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

Transfer of Status Presentations
Date: 16 May 2024, 14:00 - 15:30 (Thursday, 4th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker s: Eleri Hedley Carter, Freya Willis
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: Larkin Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Rex Nettleford Lecture on Colonialism and its Legacies 2024
Date: 16 May 2024, 17:30 - 18:30 (Thursday, 4th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Paul Gilroy
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Kathryn Ferguson (Oriel College)
Hosts: TBA

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

CONFERENCE 'Franco-British relations and Europe, from membership of the EEC to Brexit. Around the Pompidou / Heath archives ’
Date: 17 May 2024, 9:00 - 16:45 (Friday, 4th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX26SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Cohabitation, Prostitution and Procuring: Sex work as gendered labour in early modern Lyon, Seville and Mexico City
Date: 17 May 2024, 11:00 - 12:15 (Friday, 4th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Clare Burgess (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room, Faculty of History, 41-47 George St, OX1 2BE
Organisers: Emlia Flack (University of Oxford), Emilia Flack (University of Oxford), Leonie Bramwell (University of Oxford), Emma Teworte (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Rural Reconstruction
Date: 17 May 2024, 14:00 - 16:00 (Friday, 4th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Ho Tim Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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

New Actors and the Changing Field of Peacemaking and Peacebuilding
Date: 18 May 2024, 9:00 - 18:00 (Saturday, 4th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: Accessible auditorium St John's College
Organiser: Liz Carmichael (University of Oxford)
Host: OxPeace (University of Oxford)

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

Paradiplomacy in Hard Times: Cooperation and Confrontation in Subnational US-China Relations
Date: 20 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Monday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Professor Kyle Jaros (University of Notre Dame)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)

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

“We are religious, patriotic, and self-sacrificial”: Baniya Power, Privilege, and Wealth Anxieties in India
Date: 21 May 2024, 14:00 - 15:30 (Tuesday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Ujithra Ponniah (Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser: Thiruni Kelegama (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Esmond Harmsworth Lecture in American Arts and Letters with author Maggie Nelson
Date: 21 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:15 (Tuesday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Maggie Nelson
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Sinologist, Traveller, Governor, Spy: The Lives and Legacies of Sir Cecil Clementi, 17th Governor of Hong Kong
Date: 21 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Tuesday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Graham Hutchings (University of Oxford, University of Nottingham)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)

The fall of dictatorship in Spain, Portugal and Greece: 50 years on
Date: 21 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:45 (Tuesday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker s: Charles Powell (Elcano Royal Institute), Harris Mylonas (George Washington University), Joao Carlos Espada (Catolica, Lisbon)
Venue: 70 Woodstock Road, 70 Woodstock Road OX2 6HR
Venue Details: Seminar Room, European Studies Centre
Organiser: Julie Adams (St Antony's College, Oxford)
Host: Othon Anastasakis (St Antony's College, Oxford)

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

Oxford Technology & Security Nexus — "Cloud empires’ physical footprint: How trade and security politics shape the global expansion of U.S. and Chinese data centre infrastructures"
Date: 22 May 2024, 15:00 - 16:00 (Wednesday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker s: Vili Lehdonvirta (Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford), Boxi Wu (Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Please email elisabeth.siegel@politics.ox.ac.uk to be able to attend.
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Forced Migration on Film: A Conversation with Marc Isaacs
Date: 22 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Wednesday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Associate Professor Marc Isaacs (University College London)
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Tsuzuki Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Post-Globalism and the Ulama: Contestation of Authority
Date: 22 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Wednesday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Professor Raihan Ismail (St Antony's College)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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

“My best friend used to look after me and push me round in my chair…but I don’t think really that was appropriate….” Physically disabled children and their sibling and peer carers in England, 1930-1970
Date: 23 May 2024, 14:00 - 15:30 (Thursday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Samantha McCormack (Oxford)
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: Larkin Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

‘The Bookshop of Black Queer Diaspora: Lorraine Hansberry and the Multiplications of Insurgency’
Date: 23 May 2024, 16:45 - 17:45 (Thursday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Prof. Rod Ferguson (Yale)
Venue Details: Large seminar room, Rothermere American Institute
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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

Visualising masculine command: landscape views and picturing power in cardinals' 16th-century Roman villa gardens
Date: 24 May 2024, 11:00 - 12:15 (Friday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Ellen Sharman (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room, Faculty of History, 41-47 George St, OX1 2BE
Organisers: Emlia Flack (University of Oxford), Leonie Bramwell (University of Oxford), Emma Teworte (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Consumerism in China
Date: 24 May 2024, 14:00 - 16:00 (Friday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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

Deconstructing State and Identity in Pakistan
Date: 28 May 2024, 14:00 - 15:30 (Tuesday, 6th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser: Thiruni Kelegama (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Economic Diversification and Climate Change in the Middle East
Date: 28 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Tuesday, 6th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Dr Sarah Bush (University of Pennslyvania)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: MEC Board Room
Organisers: TBA
Host: Dr Maryam Alemzadeh (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

Dreaming of Europe: Work refugees and the migration crisis
Date: 28 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:45 (Tuesday, 6th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker s: Randall Hansen (University of Toronto; Refugees Study Centre, Oxford), Catherine Briddick (St Antony's College, Oxford)
Venue: 70 Woodstock Road, 70 Woodstock Road OX2 6HR
Venue Details: Seminar Room, European Studies Centre
Organiser: Julie Adams (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Othon Anastasakis (St Antony's College, Oxford)

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

Fellow's Forum: Disanimality: When Disability, Illness, and Animality Meet
Date: 29 May 2024, 12:30 - 13:45 (Wednesday, 6th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Dr Michael Lundblad (University of Oslo)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Host: Prof. Lloyd Pratt (University of Oxford)

Migration: past, present and future
Date: 29 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Wednesday, 6th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Professor Ian Goldin (Director, Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Development)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre (and Online)
Organiser: Oxford Martin School (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Smugglers and States: Negotiating the Maghreb at its Margins
Date: 29 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Wednesday, 6th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Dr Max Gallien (University of Sussex)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

At the origins of raw materials diplomacy. Saltpeter trade in Renaissance Italy
Date: 29 May 2024, 17:15 - 18:15 (Wednesday, 6th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Fabrizio Ansani (Exeter)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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

"God is an Equal Opportunities Employer - Pity about the Church": Humour and the Campaign for Women's Ordination in the Church of England, 1978-1994
Date: 30 May 2024, 14:00 - 15:30 (Thursday, 6th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Grace Heaton (Oxford)
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: Larkin Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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

The unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable: Siegfried Sassoon, Radclyffe Hall, equestrianism and early twentieth-century queer identities
Date: 31 May 2024, 11:00 - 12:15 (Friday, 6th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Dr Hannah Smith (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room, Faculty of History, 41-47 George St, OX1 2BE
Organisers: Leonie Bramwell (University of Oxford), Emma Teworte (University of Oxford), Emlia Flack (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Early Chinese Communism
Date: 31 May 2024, 14:00 - 16:00 (Friday, 6th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Ho Tim Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Welfare chauvinism in Europe: The opposition towards social benefits and services for migrants
Date: 31 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:45 (Friday, 6th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Gianna Eick (University of Amsterdam)
Venue: 70 Woodstock Road, 70 Woodstock Road OX2 6HR
Venue Details: Seminar Room, European Studies Centre
Organiser: Julie Adams (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Tim Vlandas (ESC/St Antony's College, Oxford)

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

The Rise and Fall of Confederate Monuments: Memory and the American Civil War
Date: 3 June 2024, 17:00 - 18:15 (Monday, 7th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Professor Caroline Janney (University of Virginia)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organisers: Elizabeth R. Varon (University of Virginia), Chair: Adam Smith (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

Oxford Technology & Security Nexus: Multilateral Institutions & AI governance
Date: 5 June 2024, 15:00 - 16:00 (Wednesday, 7th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Sam Daws (University of Oxford )
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Please email elisabeth.siegel@politics.ox.ac.uk to be able to attend.
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Fall of Kabul: Why It Happened and Why It Matters?
Date: 5 June 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Wednesday, 7th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Sir Laurie Bristow (Hughes Hall, Cambridge)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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

[Title TBC] History of Gender Seminar
Date: 7 June 2024, 11:00 - 12:15 (Friday, 7th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Dr Jack Doyle (Oxford)
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room, Faculty of History, 41-47 George St, OX1 2BE
Organisers: Leonie Bramwell (University of Oxford), Emma Teworte (University of Oxford), Emlia Flack (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Joint Session with the Oxford Taiwan Reading Group
Date: 7 June 2024, 14:00 - 16:00 (Friday, 7th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Ho Tim Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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

Oxford Technology & Security Nexus — Space Policy, Data Centres on the Moon, and New Colonialism
Date: 12 June 2024, 15:00 - 16:00 (Wednesday, 8th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Yung Au (Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford University)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Please email elisabeth.siegel@politics.ox.ac.uk to be able to attend.
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards: A History
Date: 12 June 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Wednesday, 8th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Professor Maryam Alemzadeh (University of Oxford)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Compulsion, Compliance and Combat: New Perspectives on Napoleonic Conscription
Date: 12 June 2024, 17:15 - 18:15 (Wednesday, 8th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Graeme Callister (York St Johns)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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

Challenging confinement: women and men in London’s ‘reformed’ prisons, 1780-1830
Date: 14 June 2024, 11:00 - 12:15 (Friday, 8th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Dr Kiran Mehta (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room, Faculty of History, 41-47 George St, OX1 2BE
Organisers: Leonie Bramwell (University of Oxford), Emma Teworte (University of Oxford), Emlia Flack (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Pub Social @ Gardeners Arms on North Parade
Date: 14 June 2024, 14:00 - 16:00 (Friday, 8th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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

China’s Military Rise: Two decades of catch up with the USA
Date: 20 June 2024, 12:00 - 13:00 (Thursday, 9th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Professor Peter Robertson (University of Western Australia)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Rachel Murphy (University of Oxford)

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

Oxford Data Academy
Date: 24 June 2024, 9:00 - 18:00 (Monday, 10th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Reuben College,
Venue Details: Ground floor lecture theatre
Organiser: Jakub Hantabal (Department of Oncology)
Hosts: TBA

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

The Women Behind the Few: The Women's Auxiliary Air Force in British Air Intelligence During the Second World War
Date: 20 November 2024, 17:15 - 18:15 (Wednesday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Sarah-Louise Miller (Oxford)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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