Monday 17 November 2025

• 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
• 14:15 - Intersecting Penalties: Reproducing Inequality Among Palestinian Middle-Class Women
  Professor Sarab Abu Rabia-Queder (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
  Israel Studies Seminar
• 17:00 - Round table on Brazilian elections
  Laurence Whitehead (Nuffield College, Oxford)
  LAC Main Seminar Series

Wednesday 19 November 2025

• 17:00 - Film Screening – A Place in the City, by Gabriel Silvestre
  Dr Gabriel Silvestre (Newcastle University)
• 17:00 - Making Sense of the Fourth Plenum & China’s New Five-Year Plan
  Dr Yu Jie (Chatham House)
  China Centre talks

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 - *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
• 17:30 - Film Screening & Director Q&A: To Kill a Mongolian Horse
  This film screening will take place at St John's College. Booking required.
  Xiaoxuan Jiang (Film Director)
  China Studies Seminar series

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
• 12:00 - Beyond Rivalry: How Americans and Chinese View Global Justice
  Professor Xiaojun Li (The University of British Columbia)
  China Centre talks

Monday 24 November 2025

• 12:00 - Is China Building a Rival International Order and How Would We Know?
  Professor Matthew D. Stephen (Helmut Schmidt University)
  China Centre talks
• 13:30 - Anticipating Russia’s Next Moves: Strategic Foresight to Defend Ukraine and the West
  Victoria Podgorna, Oleksii Zhmerenetsky
• 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

• 14:15 - Student volunteering in historical perspective: debates and tensions in Israeli higher education
  Dr Adi Sapir (University of Haifa)
  Israel Studies Seminar
• 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 - 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

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 - The Soul-loosing Grid (mihun zhen 迷魂陣) and Other Novelese Battle Arrays (zhen 陣): A Tentative Exploration of a 'Fictional' Reconstruction of Military Arts, Taoist Rituals, Performing Arts and Black Magic
  Professor Vincent Durand-Dastès (INALCO, Paris)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 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

• 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
• 14:15 - The Ottoman Production of Ashkenazi Identity
  Dr Yair Wallach (SOAS Centre for Jewish Studies)
  Israel Studies Seminar
• 17:00 - US and Latin America
  Michael McKinley (Former US Ambassador in Perú, Brazil and Colombia)
  LAC Main Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Video Vices and Terminal Futures
  See abstract for content note
  Dr Julia Keblinska (University of Cambridge)
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China

Wednesday 3 December 2025

• 17:00 - What Comparative Area Studies (CAS) Brings to the Table: Leveraging and Integrating Area-Based Knowledge in the Social Sciences
  Professor Rudra Sil (University of Pennsylvania)

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 Making of a Neglected Disease: Trachoma Research and Control in Twentieth-century China
  Mary Augusta Brazelton (Cambridge)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 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

Friday 5 December 2025

• 17:00 - Baillie Gifford Distinguished Lecture (China Centre)
  Dame Caroline Wilson
  Baillie Gifford Distinguished Speaker Series

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