Tuesday 27 May 2025

• 14:00 - Designing with the Rohingya: Trauma, Resilience, Memory
  Professor Esther da Costa Meyer (Princeton University and Yale University)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Rethinking conservation: inclusion and participation in the Pacific Islands
  Dr Sangeeta Mangubhai (Talanoa Consulting, Fiji)
  Oxford Martin School Events

Wednesday 28 May 2025

• 17:00 - The Origins of Perso-Islamic Courts and Empires in India
  Professor Blain Auer (University of Lausanne)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - The Empire of Trebizond: The State of Research and Possible Future Directions
  Rustam Shukurov (IMAFO, Vienna)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 29 May 2025

• 17:00 - A Confucian Academy in 21st Century Hebei: Rethinking 'truth' in Chinese Religion
  Dr Gareth Breen (LSE)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 30 May 2025

• 14:00 - OxCRG Pub Social
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group
• 14:30 - Roundtable - When the Doctor and the AI Disagree: Beyond Opposition
  Karin Jongsma (Utrecht University), Giorgia Pozzi (TU Delft), Bartek Papiez (Big Data Institute, Oxford), Dominic Wilkinson (Uehiro Oxford institute)
  Oxford Medical Humanities

Tuesday 3 June 2025

• 14:00 - Ecologies of Caste and Waste: Dependence and Value Making at the Bhalswa Landfill in Delhi
  Aparna Agarwal (University of Lausanne)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 16:15 - Italian Renaissance Cryptography
  Please note the speaker will be presenting online
  Professor Marcello Simonetta (Medici Archive Project/NYU Florence), Chair: Antonio Pattori
  Early Modern Diplomacy c.1400-1800

Wednesday 4 June 2025

• 11:00 - Rethinking Methodologies: A Workshop in the Medical Humanities
  Dr Sloan Mahone (University of Oxford), Dr Paola Esposito (Institute of Social & Cultural Anthropology ), Dr Marta Arnaldi (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Medical Humanities
• 16:30 - There Is No Brazil Without Angola: Painting the Portuguese Atlantic in the Late Eighteenth Century
  Please note this seminar will take place in the Kloppenburg Room, Cohen Quad
  Cécile Fromont (Harvard University)
  Iberian History Seminar
• 17:00 - Iran’s Crisis of Governance
  Professor Anoush Ehteshami (Durham University)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - John Tzetzes and the Heritage of Hephaistion: Transmission, Critique, and Innovation in Byzantine Treatises on Metrics
  Giuseppe Mendicino (Milan)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:00 - The Ties that Bind: Military and Revolutionary Networks Across Asia
  Zachary Clark (Pennsylvania State University), Ning Zhang (University of Oxford)
  International History of East Asia Seminar
• 17:15 - Empires in Flux: The Global Impact of the Napoleonic Wars
  Alexander Mikaberidze (Louisiana State University Shreveport)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 5 June 2025

• 17:00 - Startup Capitalism: New Approaches to Innovation Strategies in China and Taiwan?
  Dr Robyn Klingler-Vidra (Reader in Entrepreneurship & Sustainability | Associate Dean, Global Engagement King’s Business School | King’s College London), Professor Ramon Pacheco Pardo (King's College London)
  China Studies Seminar series

Monday 9 June 2025

• 17:00 - Baillie Gifford Distinguished Speaker lecture
  TBA
  Baillie Gifford Distinguished Speaker Series

Tuesday 10 June 2025

• 14:00 - Rangoonwala Fellows: Development and Displacement in Pakistan
  Ilyas Chattha (Lahore University of Management Sciences), Azeema Cheema (Verso Consulting), Arslan Waheed (Institute of Business Administration, Karachi)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 11 June 2025

• 12:30 - Artificial intelligence bottlenecks - how we can achieve a brighter economic future?
  Professor Georgios Petropoulos (USC Marshall School of Business)
  Oxford Martin School Events
• 17:00 - Al-Ghazālī and the Ideal of Godlikeness
  Dr Sophia Vasalou (University of Birmingham)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - “The Last Byzantine Controversy” — Politics, Rhetoric, and Religion from the Council of Ferrara-Florence to the Fall of Constantinople
  John-Francis Martin (Oriel College, Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 12 June 2025

• 17:00 - ‘Non-People’ in the People’s Republic: Class Enemies in Maoist China
  Dr Mark Czellér (University of London)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:00 - Henry Charles Lea, the Inquisition, and the Origins of Scientific History in the United States
  Please note this seminar will be on Thursday at 17:00 at the Rothermere American Institute
  Richard L Kagan (Johns Hopkins University)
  Iberian History Seminar
• 17:00 - Time to reset : ending the self-deception in Africa-Europe relations
  Professor Carlos Lopes (University of Cape Town), Professor Ricardo Soares de Oliveira (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Martin School Events
• 17:15 - Book Launch: Richard Reid’s The African Revolution
  Richard Reid (Oxford)

Friday 13 June 2025

• 14:00 - Sustaining Continuity: Conservation Approaches to Placemaking for Chinese Voluntary Associations
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group

Monday 16 June 2025

• 16:30 - Extracting Wood, Extracting Life: Brazilwood and the Trope of Extreme Longevity in Early Modern European Colonial Maps
  Please note this seminar is on Monday
  Maria Berbara (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro)
  Iberian History Seminar
• 17:00 - Is Taiwan Leading Asia in Women’s Political Representation?
  Professor Chang-ling Huang (National Taiwan University)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:00 - Book talk - 'How To Think About AI: A Guide For The Perplexed'
  Professor Richard Susskind (Society for Computers and Law)
  Oxford Martin School Events

Tuesday 17 June 2025

• 14:00 - A woman’s work is never done: Gender norms and Indian female labor force participation
  Rohini Pande (Yale University)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 16:15 - Reconstructing the Lost Paper Trail of Habsburg First Councillor Nicolas Perrenot de Granvelle
  Please note this talk is online only
  Dr Maxim Hoffman (Ghent University)
  Early Modern Diplomacy c.1400-1800

Wednesday 18 June 2025

• 13:00 - Colonial intersections and global connections: China, Japan, and Manchuria in the early 20th century
  Zhenyan Lu (King's College London), Dr. Gloria Yu Yang (Kyushu University)
  International History of East Asia Seminar
• 17:00 - A Bridge to the Sky: From ibn Firnas (d. 887) and the Cordoban Court to Imagining Baghdad in Assassin’s Creed Mirage
  Dr Glaire Anderson (University of Edinburgh)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Special OCBR lecture - The Emergence of Fiction: Byzantium and the East
  Marc Lauxtermann (Exeter College, Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Friday 20 June 2025

• 10:00 - Evidencing Life and Death in the Medical Humanities: Work in Progress Workshop
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Medical Humanities
• 12:00 - Constructing Chinese Plans: China’s Multi-Tiered and Diverse Approaches to Global Governance Reform
  Professor Bowen Yu (Fudan University)
  China Centre talks
• 14:00 - Rethinking Hong Kong’s Laissez-Faire Myth
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group
• 17:00 - The Precarious City: New Regimes of Death and Disease in Early Modern Istanbul
  Nükhet Varlık (Rutgers University–Newark)
  Oxford Medical Humanities

Thursday 26 June 2025

• 11:00 - Day 1: Oxford Transnational and Global History Conference 2025 - Global Empires: Transitions, Imaginations, and Contestations
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Centre for Global History events
• 17:00 - Burnout Market Feminism: Urban Chinese Businesswomen in the Internet Age
  Dr Ling Tang (University of Melbourne)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 27 June 2025

• 09:00 - Day 2: Oxford Transnational and Global History Conference 2025 - Global Empires: Transitions, Imaginations, and Contestations
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Centre for Global History events

Thursday 3 July 2025

• 17:00 - Annual Ethics in Film screening 2025
  Angeliki Kerasidou (University of Oxford), Dr Victoria Bradley, Eleanor Kerfoot (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Medical Humanities

Friday 4 July 2025

• 11:00 - Scenario Planning and the Medical Humanities: A Workshop for Uncertain Times
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Medical Humanities