Friday 11 October 2024 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - A Conversation with Asako Yuzuki
  Asako Yuzuki
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Monday 14 October 2024 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Oriental Christ: What India did with Jesus and Why it is Important
  Registration Required
  Ruth Harris (University of Oxford )
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminars
• 17:00 - The Gulag doctors in history and memory
  Professor Dan Healey (St Antony's College)
  RESC Monday Seminar

Tuesday 15 October 2024 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Being Hindu, Being Indian: Lala Lajpat Rai’s Ideas of Nationhood
  Vanya Vaidehi Bhargav (National Law School of India University, Bangalore, India)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:15 - The New Spirit of Islamism: Interactions between the AKP, Ennahda and the Muslim Brotherhood
  Dr Ezgi Başaran (University of Oxford)
  Book Talks

Friday 18 October 2024 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Oxford Centre for Global History 3rd Anthony Gwilliam Annual Lecture - Mapping Civilizations: The World from the West
  Professor Josephine Quinn (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Global History events
• 17:00 - Colonial subjects and the right to have rights: Algeria, 1834
  Professor Charles Kurzman (University of North Carolina)
  Friday Seminars

Monday 21 October 2024 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The challenges of writing Middle East history after 7 October: from Gaza to the climate crisis
  Dr Ibrahim al-Marashi (California State University)
  Book Talks
• 17:00 - Goners, grey zones and grandparents. Towards a new history of Gulag fiction
  Professor Polly Jones (University College)
  RESC Monday Seminar

Tuesday 22 October 2024 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - The Muslim son of a Hindu zamindar - family quarrels and religious boundaries in a Mughal landlord's lineage
  Nandini Chatterjee (Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 23 October 2024 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - After violence: Russia's Beslan school massacre and the peace that followed
  Professor Debra Javeline (Notre Dame, Indiana)

Friday 25 October 2024 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - From the cradle to the street: family and the 1979 Revolution in Iran
  Professor Naghmeh Sohrabi (Brandeis University)
  Friday Seminars

Monday 28 October 2024 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - A people’s census: Soviet war crimes documentation and the history of information
  Dr Paula Chan (All Souls)
  RESC Monday Seminar

Tuesday 29 October 2024 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Populism, piety and postfeminism in Pakistan
  Afiya Zia (Independent scholar)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:15 - Tahrir, Gaza, and beyond: revolution, liberation, and praxis
  Rusha Latif (author of 'Tahrir's Youth: Leaders of a Leaderless Revolution')
  Book Talks

Monday 4 November 2024 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Title TBC
  Registration required for online access
  Dr Ria Kapoor (Queen Mary university of London)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminars
• 17:00 - States of economic exception: entangled sovereignties and the cross-border economy in North-East Asia, 1898-1930
  Professor Niccolò Pianciola (University of Padua)
  RESC Monday Seminar

Tuesday 5 November 2024 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - The political lives of Information: Information and invisibilisation in digital India
  Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:15 - Conflict and citizenship: the challenges of Palestinian-Arabs in Israel
  Professor Sarab Abu-Rabia-Queder (Ben-Gurion University)

Friday 8 November 2024 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Regional dimensions of the Gaza crisis, and the Arab role in the UN Security Council
  Mouin Rabbani, Hasmik Egian
  Friday Seminars

Monday 11 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Long shadow of the Holodomor
  Dr Daria Mattingly (University of Chichester)
  RESC Monday Seminar

Tuesday 12 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Radical Futures or Pristine Pasts? : The Afterlives of Anti-Casteism in Western India
  Surajkumar Thube (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:15 - Sacred Places Tell Tales: Jewish Life and Heritage in Modern Cairo
  Professor Yoram Meital (Ben-Gurion University)
  Book Talks

Friday 15 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Abraham Accords: The Gulf States, Israel, and the Limits of Normalization
  Dr Elham Fakhro (Belfer Center, Harvard Kennedy School)
  Book Talks

Monday 18 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - The Charismatic Paradigm and Modernist Muslim Thought
  Registration required for online attendance
  Teena Purohit (Boston University)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminars
• 17:00 - Ukrainian nationalists’ propaganda in western parts of Ukraine at the end of World War II and after: OUN-B and UPA, 1944–1953
  Dr Stanislav Tumis (Charles University, Prague)
  RESC Monday Seminar

Tuesday 19 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Book Talk: Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir
  Omer Aijazi (Manchester)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 21 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - God's Man in Iraq: The Life and Leadership of Grand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani
  Sajad Jiyad
  Book Talks

Friday 22 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Writing Middle Eastern lives: biography in modern Arab history
  Professor Sonja Mejcher-Atassi (American University of Beirut), Professor Marilyn Booth (Magdalen College, Oxford), Dr Peter Hill (Northumbria University)
  Book Talks

Monday 25 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Assembling the 'Palace of Nations': borderland federalisms and internationalist imaginations between Tsarism and Soviet power, 1917-1922
  Dr Marcel Garboś (University of Aberdeen)
  RESC Monday Seminar

Tuesday 26 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Hate crime law as Meliorist Hope: Seeking justice for caste atrocities in Rajasthan
  Sandhya Fuchs (University of Bristol)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:15 - Saving Soviet Muslims: the politics of protection at Jerusalem's General Islamic Congress of 1931
  Dr Roy Bar Sadeh (University of Manchester)

Friday 29 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Gaza – a war on healthcare
  Professor Nick Maynard (University of Oxford), Dr Debbie Harrington (Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust), Dr Rebecca Ingliss (University of Oxford)
  Friday Seminars

Monday 2 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Soviet Sixties: politics and society in the USSR, 1953-68
  Dr Rob Hornsby (University of Leeds)
  RESC Monday Seminar

Tuesday 3 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Legalizing the Revolution: India and the Constitution of the Postcolony
  Sandipto Dasgupta (New School for Social Research, New York and Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 5 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Defining antisemitism: what is the point?
  Please note, this Friday Seminar will be taking place on *THURSDAY* for 8th Week.
  Professor Shai Lavi (Tel Aviv University), Dr Brian Klug (Oxford)
  Friday Seminars