Tuesday 18 November 2025

• 14:00 - Post colonial capital – a genealogy
  Professor Barbara Harriss-White ((Emeritus Professor of Development Studies, Oxford))
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Publishing Your Manuscript with the St Antony’s Series at Palgrave MacMillan: A Workshop with the Editors
  Professor Raihan Ismail (St Antony's College), Dr Ambra Finotello (Palgrave Macmillan)
• 16:00 - Mekelle Stories: Life in Time of War
  Co-hosted with Maison Française d'Oxford - please note venue address below.
  Catherine Dom (Independent)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series
• 17:00 - Egypt’s Role, Identity, and Foreign Policy in a River of De-Nile
  Dr May Darwich (University of Birmingham)
  MENA Politics Seminars
• 17:00 - Law Unbound? Asylum and migration law in the UK post-Brexit
  IN COOPERATION WITH THE REFUGEE STUDIES CENTRE
  Catherine Barnard (Trinity College, Cambridge), Cathryn Costello (University College Dublin), Fiona Costello (St Edmund’s College, Cambridge), Steve Peers (University of London)
  European Studies Seminar
• 17:00 - Round table on Brazilian elections
  Laurence Whitehead (Nuffield College, Oxford)
  LAC Main Seminar Series

Wednesday 19 November 2025

• 18:00 - Beyond the Rock and the Reef: Britain’s Overseas Territories in Transition.
  Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81092563856?pwd=VGjXayPFUluN7KIv7Vrt8jRCQpUvAq.1 Meeting ID: 810 9256 3856 Passcode: ESC202511 One tap mobile +442080806591,,81092563856#,,,,*861639849# United Kingdom +442080806592,,81092563856#,,,,*861639849# United Kingdom Join instructions https://us02web.zoom.us/meetings/81092563856/invitations?signature=z59RZDnaIVvh0MQ-Xihp0Xd03VmukqFYkChwGlkAcOA
  Prof Peter Clegg (Professor in Politics and International Relations and Head of the School of Social Sciences at the University of the West of England), Dr Sandra León (St Antony's College)

Thursday 20 November 2025

• 15:30 - Selling Healing: Creative Arts and Health Communication in Ghana
  Ama de-Graft Aikins (University of Ghana/London School of Economics and Political Science)
  African Studies Centre Research Seminars
• 17:00 - Seeds in the Rubble: Cultural Vitality in the Arab World
  Mr Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi (Founder, Barjeel Art Foundation)
  Thursday Seminars (formerly Friday Seminars)
• 17:00 - *CANCELLED* Surnames, Same Sex Marriage, and the Interesting Evolution of Constitutional Litigation in Japan
  Professor Colin P.A. Jones (Doshisha Law School)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
• 17:00 - Asesor en las sombras: Alvaro Puga, un propagandista de los servicios de inteligencia de Pinochet
  Juan Cristóbal Peña (Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Chile)
  Latin American History Seminar

Friday 21 November 2025

• 10:30 - Incommensurable histories: Mexican Japanese life experiences during the Second World War - XIIth Guerra Seminar (In Paris)
  Jointly organized with the Latin American History Center (CRALMI-Mondes Américains), Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, and the Research Center on American Worlds (CERMA-Mondes Américains), École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
  Jessica Fernández de Lara Harada (Oxford)
  Latin American History Seminar
• 17:00 - Andrey Kurkov in conversation with Pany Xenophontos
  Andrey Kurkov (Kyiv), Dr Panayiotis Xenophontos (St Antony's College)

Saturday 22 November 2025

• 14:00 - Sovereignty in Question: Sudan's Boundary Lines with Egypt and Ethiopia
  Dr Muaz Ahmed Tungo (Former Chairman of the National Boundaries Commission (2018-2023); Lecturer, Human Rights and International Law, University of Khartoum (2002-2023)), Dr Ahmed Al-Shahi (The Sudanese Programme)

Monday 24 November 2025

• 16:00 - The Idea of India beyond Nationalist Thought
  Registration Required for Zoom
  Salmoli Choudhuri (Oxford and National Law School of India)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminars
• 17:00 - Speaking in tongues. The Soviet nationalities policy and minority protection in interwar Europe
  Dr Olena Palko (University of Basel)
  RESC Monday Seminar

Tuesday 25 November 2025

• 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
• 16:00 - Book launch: Historical Dictionary of South Sudan
  Hybrid event. Webinar registration via the link below.
  Dr Douglas Johnson, Dr Nicki Kindersley (Cardiff University), Dr Scopas Poggo (Ohio State)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series
• 17:00 - Breaking New Ground on the Global Stage: Memoirs of Kuwait's First Woman Ambassador
  Ambassador Nabeela Al Mulla (Author)
  Book Talks
• 17:00 - Institutions and Civil Society Organizations: Experimental evidence from Peru
  Paula Muñoz Chirinos (Universidad del Pacífico)
  LAC Main Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The Unfinished Conversation: Reckoning with Colonial History
  Various Speakers
• 17:00 - Democratic resistance to illiberalism in Hungary and Serbia
  IN COOPERATION WITH SEESOX
  Eric Gordy (University College London), Jessie Barton Hronešová (University College London), Zoltán Ádám (ELTE Centre for Social Sciences, Budapest & Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin)
  European Studies Seminar

Thursday 27 November 2025

• 15:30 - The Soldier, the Activist, and the Writer: On Telling a Family Story of Colonial Afterlives
  Simukai Chigudu (University of Oxford)
  African Studies Centre Research Seminars
• 17:00 - Stranger Visions: Ghuraba’ and Egypt’s Ideological Crisis
  Professor Walter Armbrust (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
  Thursday Seminars (formerly Friday Seminars)
• 17:00 - How Firms, Bureaucrats, and Ministries Benefit from the Revolving Door: Evidence from Japan
  Professor Trevor Incerti (University of Amsterdam)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Friday 28 November 2025

• 17:00 - The Underground Network of Liberation Theology in Latin America
  Niall Geraghty (UCL), Pablo Bradbury (Greenwich)
  Latin American History Seminar

Monday 1 December 2025

• 16:00 - A Cacophony of (Ir) Responsibilities
  Registration Required for Zoom
  Anwesha Roy (University of Sheffield)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminars
• 17:00 - Seize the city, undo the state: the inception of Russia’s war on Ukraine
  Professor Serhiy Kudelia (Baylor University)
  RESC Monday Seminar

Tuesday 2 December 2025

• 14:00 - Strange Fruit in Comparative Perspective
  Dr Adnan Naseemullah (Kings College London)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 16:00 - The making of an African tourist destination: Tourism development in post-independent Kenya
  Hybrid event. Please use link below for webinar registration.
  Mathias Hack (Universität Leipzig/IEG Mainz)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series
• 17:00 - Backlash against green energy infrastructure: Experimental survey evidence from France, Germany, Norway, and the UK
  Patrick Bayer (University of Glasgow)
  European Studies Seminar
• 17:00 - US and Latin America
  Michael McKinley (Former US Ambassador in Perú, Brazil and Colombia)
  LAC Main Seminar Series

Thursday 4 December 2025

• 15:30 - The Town and Gown in Ibadan: Re-exploring the Legends of Mbari
  Olutayo C. Adesina (University of Ibadan)
  African Studies Centre Research Seminars
• 17:00 - The Code of Karam: How Literature Shapes Post-Revolutionary Social Spaces in Cairo
  Dr Giedrė Šabasevičiūtė (Czech Academy of Sciences)
  Thursday Seminars (formerly Friday Seminars)
• 17:00 - Dead Letters: Reuse, Recycling, and Emotions in Japanese Buddhist Manuscripts
  Dr Halle O’Neal (University of Edinburgh)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
• 17:00 - Federal Interventions and the Making of a Bourgeois Republic under Getúlio Vargas’ administrations in Brazil (1930–1945) - XIIIth Guerra Seminar (in Oxford)
  Jointly organized with the Latin American History Center (CRALMI-Mondes Américains), Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, and the Research Center on American Worlds (CERMA-Mondes Américains), École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
  Ana Laura Fraga (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), France)
  Latin American History Seminar
• 17:00 - Dictating the agenda: the authoritarian resurgence in world politics
  Prof Alexander Cooley (Columbia), Prof Alexander Dukalskis (University College Dublin)

Friday 5 December 2025

• 09:30 - Asian ‘Revolutions’: Youth and Protest in the 2020s
  Various Speakers
  Asian Studies Centre seminars and events
• 13:00 - Institutions and individuals in the Russian foreign policy-making process
  Anton Barbashin (Editor, Riddle Russia)

Monday 19 January 2025

• 17:00 - The logic of Russian disinformation narratives during Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine
  Prof Katri Pynnöniemi (Helsinki University)
  RESC Monday Seminar

Monday 26 January 2025

• 17:00 - Militarisation, patriotic mobilisation and the societal impact of war in Russia
  Dr Elena Racheva (University of Manchester)
  RESC Monday Seminar

Monday 2 February 2025

• 17:00 - From sovereigns to servants: how the war against Ukraine has reshaped Russia’s elite
  Dr Alexandra Prokopenko (ZOiS, Berlin)
  RESC Monday Seminar

Monday 9 February 2025

• 17:00 - Russian instrumental use of international law towards Ukraine and the wider post-Soviet region
  Prof Rilka Dragneva-Lewers (University of Birmingham)
  RESC Monday Seminar

Monday 16 February 2025

• 17:00 - Navigating power shifts: Russia and the growing asymmetrical relationship with China
  Dr Marcin Kaczmarski (University of Glasgow)
  RESC Monday Seminar

Monday 2 March 2025

• 17:00 - Preferences over contested territory: evidence from a new survey experiment in Ukraine
  Dr Carl Müller-Crepon (LSE), Dr Marnie Howlett (DPIR, University of Oxford)
  RESC Monday Seminar

Monday 9 March 2025

• 17:00 - Audiences of repression: defiant dissent and public opinion in Russia
  Dr Katerina Tertytchnaya (Brasenose College)
  RESC Monday Seminar