Thursday 8 May 2025

• 17:00 - Authoritarian Teleology
  Dr Iza Ding (Northwestern University)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Clément Thibaud (Centre d’Études et de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains - CERMA, Mondes Américains, France)
  Latin American History Seminar

Friday 9 May 2025

• 09:30 - Conference: Re-assembling Manchukuo from below: Invisible Minorities, Politics, and Imagination
  Various Speakers
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
• 14:00 - The Problem of Nationalism
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group

Monday 12 May 2025

• 15:00 - African Studies Annual Lecture 2025: The Becoming Technical of the Human: Race After Apartheid
  Professor Premesh Lalu (University of the Western Cape)
• 17:00 - Financial growth and regulation in the age of populism: the Financial Conduct Authority’s challenge in getting regulation right.
  Nikhil Rathi (CEO of the FCA), Miles Celic (CEO City UK)
  St Antony's Visiting Parliamentary Fellowship
• 17:00 - Russia, China and the 'Global South'
  Dr Natasha Kuhrt (King's College London)
  RESC Monday Seminar

Tuesday 13 May 2025

• 14:00 - Afghanistan and the Concept of Asia: Intellectual Geographies in an Age of Reform
  Marya Hannun (University of Exeter)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 14:15 - Steiner in Zion: The Reception of Anthroposophy in Israel
  Professor Boaz Huss (Ben-Gurion University)
  Israel Studies Seminar Trinity Term 2025
• 17:00 - Why Marco Polo did not go to China: Lessons for Art History
  Professor Shane McCausland (SOAS)
  Oxford Seminar in the Pre-Modern History of East Asia
• 17:00 - Sacrificial Intimacies: The Value of Life, Labor, and Desire in Queer Kurdish Worlds
  Dr Emrah Karakuş (LSE)
  Women’s Rights Research Seminars
• 17:00 - A Proposal To Unlock Investment For Small-Scale Farmers In Latin America
  Miguel Robles (Universidad del Pacifico, Lima)
  LAC Main Seminar Series
• 18:00 - 'How Russians understand the new Russia' - Book Launch
  Professor Paul Chaisty (University of Oxford), Professor Stephen Whitefield (University of Oxford)

Thursday 15 May 2025

• 17:00 - Public Service, Party-State: Teaching, Gender, Power, and Memory in China, 1940s-1980s
  Dr Joseph Lawson (Newcastle University)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:00 - Competing Internationalisms in the Cold War Caribbean
  Emily Snyder (Cambridge)
  Latin American History Seminar

Friday 16 May 2025

• 14:00 - Chinese Developmentalism in the Nanjing Decade
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group
• 17:15 - OSGA 20th Anniversary Weekend: Introduction and Reflections on 20 years of SIAS/OSGA
  The Hon. Kevin Rudd (former Prime Minister of Australia), Prof Roger Goodman (Social Sciences Division, University of Oxford), Professor Paul Chaisty (University of Oxford)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Saturday 17 May 2025

• 09:30 - OSGA 20th Anniversary Weekend: ‘Social and Economic Challenges and Opportunities’ Roundtable
  Jonathan Lusthaus (University of Oxford), Professor Rachel Murphy (University of Oxford), Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford), Professor Hugh Whittaker (University of Oxford), Dr Gregory Thaler (University of Oxford)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Monday 19 May 2025

• 12:00 - Reimagining Chinese Diasporas in a Transnational World: Hypermobility, Hyperdiversity and Hyperconnectivity
  Professor Shibao Guo (University of Calgary)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:00 - Explaining Russia’s full-scale attack on Ukraine
  Dr Elias Götz (Royal Danish Defence College)
  RESC Monday Seminar
• 17:00 - Political risk in an age of populism: How does business view politics and how do boardrooms find reliable ways of understanding political movements/risk?
  Charles Roxburgh (former Second Permanent Secretary of HM Treasury, non-executive director of Shell PLC), Malcolm Gooderham (Founder of Elgin Advisory, former Conservative Party Adviser)
  St Antony's Visiting Parliamentary Fellowship

Tuesday 20 May 2025

• 14:00 - Labour as Method: Studying Technologies of the South
  Hemangini Gupta (University of Edinburgh)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 14:15 - "A Man Learns Only from What His Heart Desires": Hebrew Textbooks Reimagined
  Rakefet Anzi (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
  Israel Studies Seminar Trinity Term 2025
• 15:00 - Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant
  Curtis Chin (Writer, Producer, Director)
  China Centre talks
• 17:00 - Merchants and Early Modern Capitalism in the South China Sea
  Professor Anne Gerritsen (University of Warwick)
  Oxford Seminar in the Pre-Modern History of East Asia

Thursday 22 May 2025

• 16:00 - The Homecoming
  Filmscreening
• 17:00 - Title TBC
  TBA
  Latin American History Seminar

Friday 23 May 2025

• 14:00 - Governing Shanghailand: The SMC and SMP
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group
• 17:00 - Decolonial and Indigenous Military Geographies of Okinawa and Beyond
  Dr Hidefumi Nishiyama (University of Oulu)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Monday 26 May 2025

• 12:00 - Institutional Genes: The Origins of China’s Institutions and Totalitarianism
  Dr Chenggang Xu (Stanford University)
  China Centre talks
• 17:00 - Spinach and souls: power and recognition in the US-Russia relationship
  Dr Ruth Deyermond (King's College London)
  RESC Monday Seminar
• 17:00 - How to Move the Masses on Chinese Social Media: A Narrative-Platform Approach
  Professor Guobin Yang (University of Pennsylvania)
  China Studies Seminar series

Tuesday 27 May 2025

• 14:00 - Designing with the Rohingya: Trauma, Resilience, Memory
  Professor Esther da Costa Meyer (Princeton University and Yale University)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The “Unmoved Heart” of Mengzi 孟子 2A2 Revisited
  Professor Jeffrey Riegel (UC Berkeley)
  Oxford Seminar in the Pre-Modern History of East Asia
• 17:00 - Indigenous Justice In Bolivia And The Travails Of Plurinational Constitutionalism
  René Provost (McGuill University)
  LAC Main Seminar Series

Wednesday 28 May 2025

• 09:30 - Fourth Annual Oxford-Georgia Forum: Quo Vadis, Georgia?
  Various Speakers

Thursday 29 May 2025

• 17:00 - A Confucian Academy in 21st Century Hebei: Rethinking 'truth' in Chinese Religion
  Dr Gareth Breen (LSE)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:00 - Pombal’s reforms in Brazil
  Kenneth Maxwell (Harvard University)
  Latin American History Seminar

Friday 30 May 2025

• 14:00 - OxCRG Pub Social
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group

Monday 2 June 2025

• 17:00 - Russia and ASEAN in the Indo-Pacific
  Dr Paradorn Rangsimaporn (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Thailand)
  RESC Monday Seminar

Tuesday 3 June 2025

• 14:00 - Ecologies of Caste and Waste: Dependence and Value Making at the Bhalswa Landfill in Delhi
  Aparna Agarwal (University of Lausanne)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Central Asian Christian perspectives on Mongol Chaghatai Rule
  Benjamin Sharkey (Oxford)
  Oxford Seminar in the Pre-Modern History of East Asia
• 17:00 - States and Social Hierarchies in Kuwait and the Arab Gulf Region
  Professor Lisa Blaydes (Stanford University)
  Women’s Rights Research Seminars

Thursday 5 June 2025

• 17:00 - Startup Capitalism: New Approaches to Innovation Strategies in East Asia
  Dr Robyn Klingler-Vidra (King's College London)
  Oxford Taiwan Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Sir John Elliott Memorial Lecture Between Imperial History and Global History: Sir John Elliott, Historian of the Americas
  There will be no seminar this week due to the Sir John Elliott Memorial lecture, for which the registration deadline is midday on 30 April 2025
  Serge Gruzinski (CNRS, EHESS)
  Latin American History Seminar
• 17:00 - Startup Capitalism: New Approaches to Innovation Strategies in China and Taiwan?
  Dr Robyn Klingler-Vidra (Reader in Entrepreneurship & Sustainability | Associate Dean, Global Engagement King’s Business School | King’s College London), Professor Ramon Pacheco Pardo (King's College London)
  China Studies Seminar series

Tuesday 10 June 2025

• 14:00 - Rangoonwala Fellows: Development and Displacement in Pakistan
  Ilyas Chattha (Lahore University of Management Sciences), Azeema Cheema (Verso Consulting), Arslan Waheed (Institute of Business Administration, Karachi)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The Physics of Chinese Qi Cosmology in seventeenth-century Japan
  Dr Matthais Hayek (EFEO)
  Oxford Seminar in the Pre-Modern History of East Asia

Thursday 12 June 2025

• 17:00 - ‘Non-People’ in the People’s Republic: Class Enemies in Maoist China
  Dr Mark Czellér (University of London)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 13 June 2025

• 14:00 - Sustaining Continuity: Conservation Approaches to Placemaking for Chinese Voluntary Associations
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group
• 17:00 - Henry Charles Lea, the Inquisition, and the Origins of Scientific History in the United States
  Joint Seminar RAI/Iberian History Seminar/ Latin American History Seminar
  Richard Kagan (Johns Hopkins University)
  Latin American History Seminar

Monday 16 June 2025

• 17:00 - Is Taiwan Leading Asia in Women’s Political Representation?
  Professor Chang-ling Huang (National Taiwan University)
  China Studies Seminar series

Tuesday 17 June 2025

• 14:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Rohini Pande (Yale University)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Friday 20 June 2025

• 12:00 - Constructing Chinese Plans: China’s Multi-Tiered and Diverse Approaches to Global Governance Reform
  TBA
  China Centre talks
• 14:00 - Rethinking Hong Kong’s Laissez-Faire Myth
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group
• 17:00 - Title TBC
  TBA
  Latin American History Seminar

Thursday 26 June 2025

• 17:00 - Burnout Market Feminism: Urban Chinese Businesswomen in the Internet Age
  Dr Ling Tang (University of Melbourne)
  China Studies Seminar series