Thursday 20 November 2025

• 17:00 - Writing an Intellectual History from below: Methodological and theoretical reflections from "Slavery and FREEDOM in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic (Cambridge, 2025)”
  Dr Chloe Ireton (UCL)
  Oxford Seminar in Global Intellectual History
• 17:30 - Film Screening & Director Q&A: To Kill a Mongolian Horse
  This film screening will take place at St John's College. Booking required.
  Xiaoxuan Jiang (Film Director)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 21 November 2025

• 12:00 - Beyond Rivalry: How Americans and Chinese View Global Justice
  Professor Xiaojun Li (The University of British Columbia)
  China Centre talks
• 14:00 - Civil Wars and the End of the Cold War: Hypotheses for Global History
  Jeremy Adelman (Princeton & Cambridge)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 24 November 2025

• 12:00 - Is China Building a Rival International Order and How Would We Know?
  Professor Matthew D. Stephen (Helmut Schmidt University)
  China Centre talks

Tuesday 25 November 2025

• 12:30 - Adapting food systems to climate change: lessons from aquaculture in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta
  Dr Dao Minh Hai (College of Aquaculture and Fisheries, Can Tho University)
  Oxford Martin School Events
• 16:00 - The Uncertain State: Uncertainty as everyday experience and mode of governmentality in contemporary India
  Geert de Neve (University of Sussex)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Barbarism, religion, and the tsars: Eighteenth-century Europe imagines the Treaty of Nerchinsk
  Dr Shiru Lim (Leiden University)
  Oxford Seminar in Global Intellectual History
• 17:30 - The Boundaries of Humanity Reading Group
  The reading group is open to students at all levels of study (including medical students), as well as faculty.
  Reading Group
  Oxford Medical Humanities

Wednesday 26 November 2025

• 16:30 - Book Launch: Waning crescent: The rise and fall of global Islam
  Professor Faisal Devji (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Estates, Economy, and 'Holy Men' in Late Antique Egyptian Monasteries
  Thomas Laver (Cambridge)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:00 - Embodied Objects: Vaginal Technologies and Missionary Collections in East Asia
  Ruoyu Jia (Durham University), Yoo Jin Choi (University of Delaware)
  International History of East Asia Seminar
• 17:00 - Navigating the chaos: Trump, Putin, the rise of populism and the end of the rules-based international order
  Lord Darroch of Kew (House of Lords), Kathy Harvey (Associate Dean, MBA and Executive Degrees, Saïd Business School)
  Oxford Martin School Events

Thursday 27 November 2025

• 17:00 - The Soul-loosing Grid (mihun zhen 迷魂陣) and Other Novelese Battle Arrays (zhen 陣): A Tentative Exploration of a 'Fictional' Reconstruction of Military Arts, Taoist Rituals, Performing Arts and Black Magic
  Professor Vincent Durand-Dastès (INALCO, Paris)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 28 November 2025

• 14:00 - Art and Decolonial Love: Visualizing Just Futures in the Chicanx Civil Rights Movement
  Charlene Villaseñor Black (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Tuesday 2 December 2025

• 14:00 - Strange Fruit in Comparative Perspective
  Dr Adnan Naseemullah (Kings College London)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 14:00 - German Mining Science and the Quest for Metals in the Early Modern World
  Gabriele Marcon (Vienna), Chair: Howard Hotson
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 16:15 - Macartney and the Manchus: The Impact of British understandings of Qing Ethnic Tensions on Sino-British Relations
  Ross Moncrieff (University of Oxford)
  Early Modern Diplomacy c.1400-1800

Wednesday 3 December 2025

• 14:00 - Knowledge, Science, and Development across Global Contexts
  Madeline White (Oxford), Koyna Tomar (University of Pennsylvania)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 16:30 - Art and Sustainability in the Early Modern Iberian World
  Charlene Villaseñor Black (Worcester College, Oxford)
  Iberian History Seminar
• 17:00 - The role of media in a changing world
  Mr Nic Robertson (CNN International)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Byzantium in Correspondence: 171 Letters of Athanasios Papadopoulos-Kerameus to Non-Greek Byzantinists (1875–1911)
  Olivier Delouis (Paris)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:00 - Peripheral Voices: Local Identity Formation and Alternative Politics in Imperial Japan
  Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet (University of Oxford), DONG Zi’ang (Hokkaido University)
  International History of East Asia Seminar
• 17:15 - The loyalties of professionals: Black soldiers in the Rhodesian army, 1963-1981
  M T Howard (Independent Scholar)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 4 December 2025

• 17:00 - The Making of a Neglected Disease: Trachoma Research and Control in Twentieth-century China
  Mary Augusta Brazelton (Cambridge)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 5 December 2025

• 14:00 - The Americas in Catholicism’s Global Cold War
  Daniel McDonald (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Baillie Gifford Distinguished Lecture (China Centre)
  Dame Caroline Wilson
  Baillie Gifford Distinguished Speaker Series

Tuesday 27 January 2025

• 14:00 - Daily Bread: Thinking Comparatively about Food Protests, Social History, Gender, and Archival Politics
  Maartje van Gelder (Amsterdam), Chair: Filippo de Vivo
  Early Modern World Seminar

Wednesday 28 January 2025

• 17:15 - A model occupation. German occupational policy in Brussels and its impact on the First World War - and beyond
  Samuël Kruizinga (UV Amsterdam)
  History of War Seminar Series

Tuesday 10 February 2025

• 14:00 - The Case for India: Restating Eighteenth-Century Oriental Despotism from a History of Knowledge Perspective
  Stéphane Van Damme (ENS Paris/MFO), Chair: Giuseppe Marcocci
  Early Modern World Seminar

Wednesday 11 February 2025

• 17:15 - Mercenaries for Peace: Masculinity, Internationalism, and Pleasure on the Front Lines of Peacekeeping
  Margot Tudor (City)
  History of War Seminar Series

Wednesday 25 February 2025

• 17:15 - Joint session with the History of War seminar. Title TBC
  Please note the change in regular time and place. This seminar will take place at All Souls College at 17:15 on Wednesday 25 February.
  Julia Heinemann (Antwerp), Chair: Peter Wilson
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 17:15 - Male bodies for the fatherland. Invalidity and self-mutilation in the eighteenth-century Habsburg monarchy
  Julia Heinemann (Antwerp)
  History of War Seminar Series

Tuesday 10 March 2025

• 14:00 - Postgraduate presentations - title TBC
  Various Speakers
  Early Modern World Seminar

Wednesday 11 March 2025

• 10:00 - Postgraduate Presentations
  Please note these presentations will take place in the Schwarzman Centre, from 10:00-14:30
  Various Speakers
  History of War Seminar Series

Tuesday 5 May 2025

• 14:00 - Toward a History of Misunderstandings: The Missionaries’ Dilemma
  This talk has been rescheduled from Michaelmas Term. Please note the change of venue
  Peter Burke (Cambridge), Chair: Filippo de Vivo
  Early Modern World Seminar