Tuesday 25 February 2025

• 14:00 - Between Nation and Community. Muslim Universities and Indian Politics after Partition (1947-1990s)
  Laurence Gautier (Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Rediscovering James W.C. Pennington, Black Reformed Minister and Activist
  Jan Stievermann (Heidelberg)
  American History Research Seminar
• 16:15 - Roundtable discussion on pre-modern Chinese diplomacy
  Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford), Dr Song-Chuan Chen (University of Warwick), Dr Thomas Barrett (University of Cambridge), Dr Jacob Fordham (LSE)
  Early Modern Diplomacy c.1400-1800
• 17:30 - The Boundaries of Humanity Reading Group
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Medical Humanities

Wednesday 26 February 2025

• 12:00 - Mecca in Morocco: Studying the Socio-Cultural Embeddedness of Pilgrimage in Muslim Everyday Life
  Dr Kholoud al-Ajarma (University of Edinburgh)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 14:00 - Transnational Left Solidarity
  Vladimir Bortun (University of Oxford), Mariana Steiner Farias (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 16:30 - Father Tomás de León: A Spanish Orientalist in Seventeenth Century Granada
  Fernando Rodríguez Mediano (CHSS-CSIC, Madrid)
  Iberian History Seminar
• 17:00 - Coinage of Mughal South Asia and the Muslim Chain of Being
  Professor Azfar Moin (University of Texas, Austin)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Dialogue and Debate between Syriac and Armenian Miaphysites in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
  Andy Hilkens (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:00 - Towards re-decentralising the Web: an ethical web and data infrastructure
  Professor Ruben Verborgh (Ghent University), Sir Tim Berners-Lee (University of Oxford), Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt
  Oxford Martin School Events
• 17:15 - What was Grand Strategy in World War II—a look at the US policy of "Germany First"
  Philips Payson O'Brien (St Andrews)
  History of War Seminar Series

Friday 28 February 2025

• 16:00 - Imperialism and Ethnology: The Ottoman Case
  Giancarlo Casale (EUI)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Tuesday 4 March 2025

• 14:00 - ‘Mao-Lana’ of Asia: Bhashani, Black Maoism, and Islamic Socialism in the 1960s
  Layli Uddin (Queen Mary University of London)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 16:00 - The Cost of Sympathy: Perceptions of Suffering in the New York City Draft Riots
  Joanna Cohen (Queen Mary)
  American History Research Seminar

Wednesday 5 March 2025

• 17:00 - How to Study Arabic and Islamic Philosophy? Once Again about al-Ghazali and Descartes
  Professor Frank Griffel (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - New Approaches to the Byzantine Army of North Africa in the 7th Century: Organisation, Strategies, and Challenges
  Tommaso Giuliodoro (Durham University)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:00 - Nature narratives: Eden, spoils or garden
  Professor Sandra Diaz (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba)
  Oxford Martin School Events
• 17:00 - Colonial Projects and Local Realities in East Asian ‘Peripheries’
  Scott Ma (University of Zurich), Surigage (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Thursday 6 March 2025

• 17:00 - The billionaire tax: a (modest) proposal for the 21st century
  Professor Gabriel Zucman (Paris School of Economics)
  Oxford Martin School Events
• 17:00 - Yang sheng and Diaitētikē: Comparative Perspectives on Regimen in Early China
  Dr Arthur Harris (Cambridge)
  China Studies Seminar series

Monday 10 March 2025

• 12:00 - Involuntary Bachelorhood and the Crises of the Son-centred Intergenerational Contract – Insights from Gender-imbalanced Rural China
  Professor Lisa Eklund (Lund Universty)
  China Studies Seminar series

Tuesday 11 March 2025

• 12:00 - From Click to Boom: The Political Economy of E-commerce in China
  Dr Lizhi Liu (Georgetown University)
  China Centre talks
• 14:00 - ‘Home’ in Sikh Polity: Understandings of mīrī pīrī in contemporary Britain
  Jaskiran Kaur Bhogal (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 16:00 - An Exceptional Identity: The Role of US History Education in (Re)Producing American Exceptionalism
  Emma Hall (University of Warwick)
  American History Research Seminar
• 16:15 - The Tsushima Domain and the Taiping Rebellion: Intelligence Networks and Information Circulation in Japan, 1853–1855
  Dr Yongchao Cheng (Tohoku University)
  Early Modern Diplomacy c.1400-1800
• 17:00 - The End of Engagement: America's China Experts and US Strategy Since 1989
  Professor David M. McCourt (University of California Davis)
  China Centre talks
• 17:00 - Sustainability, prosperity and global decision-making in the age of ecological scarcity
  Edward Barbier (Colorado State University)
  Oxford Martin School Events

Wednesday 12 March 2025

• 14:00 - Imperial & Transnational Histories of War
  Jake Gasson (King's College London), Salvador Lima (European University Institute)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 16:30 - Who Built the ‘Spanish’ Empire? Legislation, Toleration, and the Co-Creation of a Global Superpower
  Adrian Masters (University of Trier)
  Iberian History Seminar
• 17:00 - Reflections on the War in Sudan
  Dame Rosalind Marsden (RIIA)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - A Team of Palace Historians: the Final Redactions of Theophanes Continuatus and the De Cerimoniis
  Michael Featherstone (Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:00 - Designing for Scarcity, Navigating Decline: Architecture, Industry, and Global Economic Transformation in Twentieth-Century China
  Huirong Cheng (University of Edinburgh), Niall Chithelen (University of California, San Diego)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Thursday 13 March 2025

• 12:30 - Using geophysics to understand volcanic eruptions and search for geothermal energy resources
  Prof Martyn Unsworth (University of Alberta)
  Oxford Martin School Events
• 17:00 - Global religious change and patterns of ruler conversion, 1450-1850
  Alan Strathern (Brasenose)
  Oxford Seminar in Early Modern Global Intellectual History

Tuesday 18 March 2025

• 14:00 - Early Career Workshop for Global Early Modern Intellectual History
  TBA
  Oxford Seminar in Early Modern Global Intellectual History

Monday 24 March 2025

• 09:00 - 1-Day Conference: History, Eugenics, and Human Enhancement: How the Past Can Inform Ethical Debates in the Present
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Medical Humanities