Friday 26 September 2025

• 09:30 - Ukrainian prison literature, history and activism
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Ukraine Hub workshop series
• 12:00 - The Party's Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping
  Professor Joseph Torigian (American University)
  China Centre talks

Monday 13 October 2025

• 17:00 - The Soviet ‘Post-Civil Wars’: veterans and the making of the Soviet state
  Dr Thomas C Stevens (Keble College)
  RESC Monday Seminar

Wednesday 15 October 2025

• 12:00 - Xi Jinping has preserved his position but can he revive reform?
  Dr Willy Lam (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
  China Centre talks

Thursday 16 October 2025

• 17:00 - Seeking the Origins: Reconsidering the Impact of 'Origins of the Śākyas' (Shishi yuanliu 釋氏源流) on Ming Book Culture
  Dr Noga Ganany (University of Cambridge)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 17 October 2025

• 12:00 - The Strategic Foundations of International Economic Order: China, Bretton Woods, and the Cold War
  Professor Amy King (Australian National University)
  China Centre talks

Monday 20 October 2025

• 17:00 - Our dear friends in Moscow: the inside story of a broken generation
  Dr Irina Borogan (King's College London), Dr Andrei Soldatov (King's College London)
  RESC Monday Seminar

Tuesday 21 October 2025

• 14:15 - Precarious Labour in Precarious Times: The Impact of the War in Israel/Palestine on Non-Citizen Workers
  Dr Maayan Nietza (University of Liverpool)
  Israel Studies Seminar
• 17:00 - Autocracy 2.0: How China's Rise Reinvented Tyranny
  Professor Jennifer Lind (Dartmouth)
  China Centre talks

Thursday 23 October 2025

• 17:00 - China Studies Seminar Series
  TBA
  China Studies Seminar series

Monday 27 October 2025

• 17:00 - Measuring and making change: opinion polls and market transition in post-socialist Russia and Belarus
  Dr Alexa von Winning (University of Tübingen)
  RESC Monday Seminar

Tuesday 28 October 2025

• 14:00 - Beyond the Mountains: Social and Political Imaginaries in Gilgit-Baltistan
  Dr Nosheen Ali (NYU)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 14:15 - The Ethics of the Mothers: Field notes on Mizrahi women's religion of care
  Dr Angy Cohen
  Israel Studies Seminar
• 17:00 - Presidential Personalities and Constitutional Power Grabs in Latin America, 1945-2021
  Ignacio Arana Araya (Carnegie Mellon University)
  LAC Main Seminar Series

Thursday 30 October 2025

• 17:00 - China Studies Seminar Series
  TBA
  China Studies Seminar series

Monday 3 November 2025

• 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

• 14:15 - From Separation to a Shared Homeland: Notes on Settler-Colonial Urbanism in Israel/Palestine
  Professor Haim Yacobi (Bartlett Development Planning Unit)
  Israel Studies Seminar

Wednesday 5 November 2025

• 12:00 - Memoirs of a Confucius Institute Director: Challenges, Controversies, and Realities
  Professor Jinghan Zeng (City University of Hong Kong)
  China Centre talks

Thursday 6 November 2025

• 17:00 - China Studies Seminar Series
  TBA
  China Studies Seminar series

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

• 14:15 - Is the Gaza War the End or the Beginning of Romantic Religious Zionism?
  Dr Shlomo Fischer (Jewish People Policy Institute in Jerusalem)
  Israel Studies Seminar

Wednesday 12 November 2025

• 12:00 - The Once and Future World Order: Why Global Civilization Will Survive the Decline of the West
  Professor Amitav Acharya (The American University)
  China Centre talks

Thursday 13 November 2025

• 17:00 - China Studies Seminar Series
  TBA
  China Studies Seminar series

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

• 14:15 - Intersecting Penalties: Reproducing Inequality Among Palestinian Middle-Class Women
  Professor Sarab Abu Rabia-Queder (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
  Israel Studies Seminar

Thursday 20 November 2025

• 17:00 - China Studies Seminar Series
  TBA
  China Studies Seminar series

Monday 24 November 2025

• 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
• 17:00 - Institutions and Civil Society Organizations: Experimental evidence from Peru
  Paula Muñoz Chirinos (Universidad del Pacífico)
  LAC Main Seminar Series

Thursday 27 November 2025

• 17:00 - China Studies Seminar Series
  TBA
  China Studies Seminar series

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

Thursday 4 December 2025

• 17:00 - China Studies Seminar Series
  TBA
  China Studies Seminar series