Thursday 30 October 2025

• 15:30 - Soldier's Paradise: Militarism in Africa after Empire
  Samuel Fury Childs Daly (University of Chicago)
  African Studies Centre Research Seminars
• 16:30 - Nepal’s Gen-Z ‘Revolution’: What Happened and What Lies Ahead?
  Professor David Gellner (School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford), Dr Krishna Adhikari (School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography)
  Asian Studies Centre seminars and events
• 17:00 - Food and Language: Rhetorical-Cultural Excavations in Arab Heritage / الطعام والكلام: حفريات بلاغية ثقافية في التراث العربي
  This seminar will be partly delivered Arabic with simultaneous translation to English.
  Dr Said Laouadi (Cadi Ayyad University)
  Thursday Seminars (formerly Friday Seminars)
• 17:00 - Culture Must Be Defended: Japanese Conservatism and International Relations
  Dr Karin Narita (University of Sheffield)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
• 17:00 - División de poderes, diseño institucional y actores políticos. Argentina, siglos XIX y XX
  Laura Cucchi (Lateinamerika-Institut (Freie Universität Berlin) and LAC), Eduardo Zimmermann (Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina)
  Latin American History Seminar

Monday 3 November 2025

• 16:00 - Partition, Bengali Refugee Critiques of Postcolonial Sate and Capitalism, and the Subaltern Origins of the Cold War in India, 1947-1950
  Registration required for Zoom
  Dr Milinda Banerjee (University of St Andrews)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminars
• 17:00 - Elections in the era of the State Duma (1906-17): a reassessment
  Professor Stephen Lovell (King's College London)
  RESC Monday Seminar

Tuesday 4 November 2025

• 14:00 - Making India Work: The Development of Welfare in a Multi-level Democracy
  Dr Louise Tillin (King’s College London)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The legislative politics of climate change mitigation: Evidence from the European Parliament
  Mihail Chiru (St Antony’s College, Oxford)
  European Studies Seminar
• 17:00 - The BBC in Latin America: Aligning Journalism and Academia to Make Sense of Today's World
  TBA
  LAC Main Seminar Series

Thursday 6 November 2025

• 12:00 - Remote Eldercare: Digital Labour Extraction and Life-making in the Philippines
  Stephanie Dimatulac Santos (UCLA)
  Asian Studies Centre seminars and events
• 15:30 - Does Ethnic Stacking Work?: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Ascriptive Loyalty for Coup Proofing
  Kristen A. Harkness (University of St. Andrews)
  African Studies Centre Research Seminars
• 17:00 - Set My Heart Bonfire? (Dis)embodiment in Japanese Fiction and Literary Translation
  Helen O’Horan
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
• 17:00 - Banned Histories: Indigenous Life In Death Records C. 1815 Mexico
  Please note this seminar is in-person only
  Miriam Melton-Villanueva (University of Nevada, USA)
  Latin American History Seminar

Monday 10 November 2025

• 17:00 - Economic nationalism in one country: reform and disintegration in the Soviet Union, 1987-1990
  Dr Jonathan Raspe (University of Zürich)
  RESC Monday Seminar

Tuesday 11 November 2025

• 14:00 - Forms of the Left for the 21st Century: Contemporary Art, Digital Media, and Repressive Politics in Bangladesh
  Lotte Hoek (University of Edinburgh)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 16:30 - Panel on the 2026 Elections in Brazil
  Please note this session will have an early start
  Timothy Power (University of Oxford, OSGA), Saul Tourinho, Malu Gatto (University College London), Felipe Krause (University of Oxford)
  LAC Main Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The Woman on Top and the Men Behind. Gendering Criminals in Colonial Egypt (1920-1922)
  Dr Elena Chiti (Stockholm University)
• 17:00 - From two-party rule to polarization: Ten years of Spanish politics
  Sandra Leon Alfonso (St Antony’s College, Oxford)
  European Studies Seminar

Thursday 13 November 2025

• 08:30 - Pahang and the Sea 2-day Workshop: Maritime Networks and Connections between Southeast Asia and Beyond
  Please note the change to the venue. The workshop will now take place in the Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road.
  Various Speakers
• 15:30 - Saharan Winds: Energy Systems and Aeolian Imaginaries in Western Sahara
  Joanna Allan
  African Studies Centre Research Seminars
• 17:00 - Morocco’s Party of Justice and Development in Government: The Experience and the Future
  Mr Mustapha El Khalfi (Former Minister of Communications, Morocco)
  Thursday Seminars (formerly Friday Seminars)
• 17:00 - Words That Move: Emotions in Abe Shinzō’s Foreign Policy Rhetoric
  Professor Raymond Yamamoto (Aarhus University)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
• 17:00 - Belonging in exile: How to write an almost global history of the German-Jewish diaspora
  Miriam Ruerup (Richard von Weizsäcker Visiting Fellow, St Antony’s College, Oxford)
  European Studies Seminar
• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  Latin American History Seminar

Monday 17 November 2025

• 16:00 - The Buddha of Berlin: The German Career of the Indian Film Pioneer Himansu Rai
  Registration Required for Zoom
  Andrew Halladay (London School of Economics)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminars
• 17:00 - To feed and to mobilize: land reform in early Soviet Uzbekistan
  Dr Beatrice Penati (University of Liverpool)
  RESC Monday Seminar

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
• 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)
  European Studies Seminar
• 17:00 - Round table on Brazilian elections
  Laurence Whitehead (Nuffield College, Oxford)
  LAC Main Seminar Series

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 - 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

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
• 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 Rhodes Legacy at Oxford and beyond; and the Zimbabwean sculpture exhibition at St Mary’s university church (Speakers TBC)
  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
• 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