St Antony's College Events
Description: Seminars, workshops, and conferences at St Antony’s College and its regional study centres.
Talks:

Tuesday 18 November 2025

Post colonial capital – a genealogy
Date: 18 November 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Professor Barbara Harriss-White ((Emeritus Professor of Development Studies, Oxford))
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser: Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Publishing Your Manuscript with the St Antony’s Series at Palgrave MacMillan: A Workshop with the Editors
Date: 18 November 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Professor Raihan Ismail (St Antony's College), Dr Ambra Finotello (Palgrave Macmillan)
Venue: Hilda Besse Building, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Old Fellows Dining Room (Ground Floor)
Organiser: Justin Daniels (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Justin Daniels (University of Oxford), Professor Raihan Ismail (St Antony's College)

Mekelle Stories: Life in Time of War
Date: 18 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Catherine Dom (Independent)
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, OX2 6SE
Organisers: Norman Aselmeyer (University of Oxford), Mwangi Mwaura (Oxford), Biruk Terrefe (University of Oxford), Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Egypt’s Role, Identity, and Foreign Policy in a River of De-Nile
Date: 18 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr May Darwich (University of Birmingham)
Venue: 68 Woodstock Road, Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: MEC Boardroom, Kirdar Building, 68 Woodstock Road
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Neil Ketchley (University of Oxford)

Law Unbound? Asylum and migration law in the UK post-Brexit
Date: 18 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker s: Catherine Barnard (Trinity College, Cambridge), Cathryn Costello (University College Dublin), Fiona Costello (St Edmund’s College, Cambridge), Steve Peers (University of London)
Venue Details: Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
Organiser: Julie Adams (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Catherine Briddick (St Antony's College, Oxford)

Round table on Brazilian elections
Date: 18 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Laurence Whitehead (Nuffield College, Oxford)
Venue: Latin American Centre Library, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Eduardo Posada-Carbó
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 19 November 2025

Beyond the Rock and the Reef: Britain’s Overseas Territories in Transition.
Date: 19 November 2025, 18:00 - 19:30
Speaker s: 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)
Venue Details: St Antony's College. European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road.
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 20 November 2025

Selling Healing: Creative Arts and Health Communication in Ghana
Date: 20 November 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Speaker : Ama de-Graft Aikins (University of Ghana/London School of Economics and Political Science)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Dahrendorf Room
Organisers: Michael Odijie (University of Oxford), Dr Miles Tendi (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Seeds in the Rubble: Cultural Vitality in the Arab World
Date: 20 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Mr Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi (Founder, Barjeel Art Foundation)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

*CANCELLED* Surnames, Same Sex Marriage, and the Interesting Evolution of Constitutional Litigation in Japan
Date: 20 November 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Professor Colin P.A. Jones (Doshisha Law School)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor Gateway Building
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: Professor Kristi Govella (University of Oxford), Professor Hugh Whittaker (University of Oxford)

Asesor en las sombras: Alvaro Puga, un propagandista de los servicios de inteligencia de Pinochet
Date: 20 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Juan Cristóbal Peña (Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Chile)
Venue: 1 Church Walk, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Latin American Centre, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 21 November 2025

Incommensurable histories: Mexican Japanese life experiences during the Second World War - XIIth Guerra Seminar (In Paris)
Date: 21 November 2025, 10:30 - 11:30
Speaker : Jessica Fernández de Lara Harada (Oxford)
Venue Details: Paris
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Saturday 22 November 2025

Sovereignty in Question: Sudan's Boundary Lines with Egypt and Ethiopia
Date: 22 November 2025, 14:00 - 17:00
Speaker s: 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)
Venue: St Antony's College - Main Site, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Dr Ahmed Al-Shahi (Chair and Trustee, The Sudanese Programme)
Host: Dr Ahmed Al-Shahi (Chair and Trustee, The Sudanese Programme)

Monday 24 November 2025

The Idea of India beyond Nationalist Thought
Date: 24 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Salmoli Choudhuri (Oxford and National Law School of India)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room & Zoom
Organisers: Abraham Murad (University of Oxford), Jack Jacobs (Oriel College)
Hosts: TBA

Speaking in tongues. The Soviet nationalities policy and minority protection in interwar Europe
Date: 24 November 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Dr Olena Palko (University of Basel)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Nissan Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Dr Zbigniew Wojnowski (St Antony's College)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 25 November 2025

The Uncertain State: Uncertainty as everyday experience and mode of governmentality in contemporary India
Date: 25 November 2025, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Geert de Neve (University of Sussex)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organisers: Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford), Prof Nandini Gooptu (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Book launch: Historical Dictionary of South Sudan
Date: 25 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker s: Dr Douglas Johnson, Dr Nicki Kindersley (Cardiff University), Dr Scopas Poggo (Ohio State)
Venue: 13 Bevington Road, 13 Bevington Road OX2 6NB
Venue Details: Seminar Room, African Studies Centre
Organisers: Norman Aselmeyer (University of Oxford), Mwangi Mwaura (Oxford), Biruk Terrefe (University of Oxford), Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Breaking New Ground on the Global Stage: Memoirs of Kuwait's First Woman Ambassador
Date: 25 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Ambassador Nabeela Al Mulla (Author)
Venue: 68 Woodstock Road, Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: MEC Boardroom, Kirdar Building, 68 Woodstock Road
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

Institutions and Civil Society Organizations: Experimental evidence from Peru
Date: 25 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Paula Muñoz Chirinos (Universidad del Pacífico)
Venue: Latin American Centre Library, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room, Latin American Centre, 1 Church Walk, Oxford
Organiser: Eduardo Posada-Carbó
Hosts: TBA

The Unfinished Conversation: Reckoning with Colonial History
Date: 25 November 2025, 17:00 - 20:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Michael Odijie (University of Oxford), Dr Miles Tendi (University of Oxford), William Beinart (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Democratic resistance to illiberalism in Hungary and Serbia
Date: 25 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker s: Eric Gordy (University College London), Jessie Barton Hronešová (University College London), Zoltán Ádám (ELTE Centre for Social Sciences, Budapest & Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin)
Venue: St Antony's College - North Site,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
Organiser: Julie Adams (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Othon Anastasakis (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

Thursday 27 November 2025

The Soldier, the Activist, and the Writer: On Telling a Family Story of Colonial Afterlives
Date: 27 November 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Speaker : Simukai Chigudu (University of Oxford)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Dahrendorf Room
Organisers: Michael Odijie (University of Oxford), Dr Miles Tendi (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Stranger Visions: Ghuraba’ and Egypt’s Ideological Crisis
Date: 27 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Walter Armbrust (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

How Firms, Bureaucrats, and Ministries Benefit from the Revolving Door: Evidence from Japan
Date: 27 November 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Professor Trevor Incerti (University of Amsterdam)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor Gateway Building
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: Professor Kristi Govella (University of Oxford), Professor Hugh Whittaker (University of Oxford)

Friday 28 November 2025

The Underground Network of Liberation Theology in Latin America
Date: 28 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: Niall Geraghty (UCL), Pablo Bradbury (Greenwich)
Venue: 1 Church Walk, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Latin American Centre, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 1 December 2025

A Cacophony of (Ir) Responsibilities
Date: 1 December 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Anwesha Roy (University of Sheffield)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room & Zoom
Organisers: Abraham Murad (University of Oxford), Jack Jacobs (Oriel College)
Hosts: TBA

Seize the city, undo the state: the inception of Russia’s war on Ukraine
Date: 1 December 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Professor Serhiy Kudelia (Baylor University)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Nissan Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Dr Zbigniew Wojnowski (St Antony's College)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 2 December 2025

Strange Fruit in Comparative Perspective
Date: 2 December 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Dr Adnan Naseemullah (Kings College London)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser: Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The making of an African tourist destination: Tourism development in post-independent Kenya
Date: 2 December 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Mathias Hack (Universität Leipzig/IEG Mainz)
Venue: 13 Bevington Road, 13 Bevington Road OX2 6NB
Venue Details: Seminar Room, African Studies Centre
Organisers: Norman Aselmeyer (University of Oxford), Mwangi Mwaura (Oxford), Biruk Terrefe (University of Oxford), Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Backlash against green energy infrastructure: Experimental survey evidence from France, Germany, Norway, and the UK
Date: 2 December 2025, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker : Patrick Bayer (University of Glasgow)
Venue: St Antony's College - North Site,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
Organiser: Julie Adams (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Federica Genovese (St Antony’s College, Oxford)

US and Latin America
Date: 2 December 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Michael McKinley (Former US Ambassador in Perú, Brazil and Colombia)
Venue: Latin American Centre Library, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 4 December 2025

The Town and Gown in Ibadan: Re-exploring the Legends of Mbari
Date: 4 December 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Speaker : Olutayo C. Adesina (University of Ibadan)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Dahrendorf Room
Organisers: Michael Odijie (University of Oxford), Dr Miles Tendi (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The Code of Karam: How Literature Shapes Post-Revolutionary Social Spaces in Cairo
Date: 4 December 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Giedrė Šabasevičiūtė (Czech Academy of Sciences)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

Dead Letters: Reuse, Recycling, and Emotions in Japanese Buddhist Manuscripts
Date: 4 December 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Dr Halle O’Neal (University of Edinburgh)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor Gateway Building
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: Professor Kristi Govella (University of Oxford), Professor Hugh Whittaker (University of Oxford)

Federal Interventions and the Making of a Bourgeois Republic under Getúlio Vargas’ administrations in Brazil (1930–1945) - XIIIth Guerra Seminar (in Oxford)
Date: 4 December 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Ana Laura Fraga (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), France)
Venue: 1 Church Walk, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Latin American Centre, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 5 December 2025

Asian ‘Revolutions’: Youth and Protest in the 2020s
Date: 5 December 2025, 9:30 - 17:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Dr David Jackman (Oxford Department of International Development), Nandini Gooptu (St Antony's College)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 19 January 2025

The logic of Russian disinformation narratives during Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine
Date: 19 January 2026, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Prof Katri Pynnöniemi (Helsinki University)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Auditorium
Organisers: Dr Marnie Howlett (DPIR, University of Oxford), Professor Roy Allison (St Antony's College)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 26 January 2025

Militarisation, patriotic mobilisation and the societal impact of war in Russia
Date: 26 January 2026, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Dr Elena Racheva (University of Manchester)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Auditorium
Organisers: Dr Marnie Howlett (DPIR, University of Oxford), Professor Roy Allison (St Antony's College)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 2 February 2025

From sovereigns to servants: how the war against Ukraine has reshaped Russia’s elite
Date: 2 February 2026, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Dr Alexandra Prokopenko (ZOiS, Berlin)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Auditorium
Organisers: Dr Marnie Howlett (DPIR, University of Oxford), Professor Roy Allison (St Antony's College)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 9 February 2025

Russian instrumental use of international law towards Ukraine and the wider post-Soviet region
Date: 9 February 2026, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Prof Rilka Dragneva-Lewers (University of Birmingham)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Auditorium
Organisers: Dr Marnie Howlett (DPIR, University of Oxford), Professor Roy Allison (St Antony's College)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 16 February 2025

Navigating power shifts: Russia and the growing asymmetrical relationship with China
Date: 16 February 2026, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Dr Marcin Kaczmarski (University of Glasgow)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Auditorium
Organisers: Dr Marnie Howlett (DPIR, University of Oxford), Professor Roy Allison (St Antony's College)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 2 March 2025

Preferences over contested territory: evidence from a new survey experiment in Ukraine
Date: 2 March 2026, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker s: Dr Carl Müller-Crepon (LSE), Dr Marnie Howlett (DPIR, University of Oxford)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Auditorium
Organisers: Dr Marnie Howlett (DPIR, University of Oxford), Professor Roy Allison (St Antony's College)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 9 March 2025

Audiences of repression: defiant dissent and public opinion in Russia
Date: 9 March 2026, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Dr Katerina Tertytchnaya (Brasenose College)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Auditorium
Organisers: Dr Marnie Howlett (DPIR, University of Oxford), Professor Roy Allison (St Antony's College)
Hosts: TBA

This list contains talks from the following series:
African Studies Centre Research Seminars
African Studies Seminar Series
Asian Studies Centre seminars and events
ESC Core Seminar Series
European Studies Seminar
JOINT Middle East Politics & Women's Rights Research Seminar
LAC Main Seminar Series
Latin American Centre (LAC) Main Seminar Series
Latin American History Seminar
MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Middle East Centre Seminar Series
Middle East Centre Tuesday Book Launch (Book Talk)
Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
Modern South Asia Seminar
Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
Northeast Africa Forum seminar series
Oxford Centre for Global History events
RESC Monday Seminar
RESC Monday Seminar, Hilary Term 2024
South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
Southeast Asia Seminar
Southeast Asia Seminar
South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
St Antony's Looks at the World
St Antony's Visiting Parliamentary Fellowship
Thursday Seminars (formerly Friday Seminars)