Collection - Oxford Talks

Seminars, workshops, and conferences at St Antony’s College and its regional study centres.

09:30 - Symposium: From Economic Security to Economic Statecraft: Insights from Japan, Europe, and the United States
Various Speakers
Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
17:00 - A keynote conversation with Saeb Eigner about 'Artists of the Middle East. 1900 to Now.'
Books will be for sale at the event from Oxford bookshop, Caper (caper.fun). *Please note that due to a lift fault, there is unfortunately no step-free access to the Investcorp Lecture Theatre at present. We are working to rectify this as quickly as possible.*
Saeb Eigner (Author)
Book Talks

17:00 - Reporting from Russia in a time of war
Steve Rosenberg (BBC Russia Editor & Moscow Correspondent)

16:00 - Prostitution and the Politics of Presence in Colonial India
Online only - registration required https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/e43d7a33-d500-4e99-af4a-adcd236eced3@cc95de1b-97f5-4f93-b4ba-fe68b852cf91
Zoya Sameen (Aga Khan University)
South Asian Intellectual History Seminars
17:00 - Audiences of repression: defiant dissent and public opinion in Russia
Dr Katerina Tertytchnaya (Brasenose College)
RESC Monday Seminar
17:00 - Is the changed relationship between voters and legislators due to the development of the Internet a boon for good decision-making - or a challenge?
Nusrat Ghani, Professor Ignacio Cofone (University of Oxford)
St Antony's Visiting Parliamentary Fellowship

14:00 - South Asia-Africa Seminar Series: The Politics and Technologies of Measurement
Dr Shankar Nair (Oxford), Dr Rachel King (UCL)
South Asia-Africa Seminar Series
16:00 - The Great White Circumcisers of Kenya: a parable for polarised times
Hybrid event. Please use link below for webinar registration.
Mark Lamont (Open University)
Northeast Africa Forum seminar series
17:00 - An Autocratic Middle Class? State Dependency and Protest in the Middle East and North Africa
Professor Neil Ketchley (University of Oxford)
MENA Politics Seminars
17:00 - Polish-Ukrainian relations in past and present
LESZEK KOŁAKOWSKI LECTURE This event will be live-streamed. Please click on the link to register.
Yaroslav Hrytsak (Ukrainian Catholic University), Anna Wylegała (Polish Academy of Sciences)
LESZEK KOŁAKOWSKI LECTURE

17:00 - Decolonizing Security Studies - a North African perspective
Please note that due to a lift fault, there is unfortunately no step-free access to the Investcorp Lecture Theatre at present. We are working to rectify this as quickly as possible.
Professor Nizar Messari (Al Akhawayn University)
Thursday Seminars (formerly Friday Seminars)
17:00 - From Politics to People? Changing Protagonists and the Transformation of NHK Television News
Dr Yosuke Buchmeier (Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, University of Oxford)
Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

15:00 - African Studies Centre Annual Lecture 2026 - Decolonisation: Lessons from post-colonial Uganda
Mahmood Mamdani (Columbia University)

09:45 - Reading Tayeb Salih in the 21st Century
Professor Laurent Mignon (University of Oxford), Mohamed Khalaph, Amal Osman, Dr Apala Das (Bilkent University, Ankara), Timour Muhidine (INALCO, Paris), Dr Lemya Shammat (Kind Saud University, Jeddah), Adil Babikir (Translator, Abu Dhabi), Dr Abdelmagid Abdelrahman Awadelkarim (Majmaah University, Saudia Arabia), Dr Richard Barltrop (LSE Middle East Centre), Dr Ahmed Al-Shahi (The Sudanese Programme)

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