Thursday 13 October 2016 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Teaching Africa’
  Various Speakers
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 20 October 2016 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Between Rootedness and Rootlessness: How Sedentarist and Nomadic Metaphysics Simultaneously Challenge and Reinforce (Dual) Citizenship Claims for Liberia’
  Robtel Neajai Pailey (University of Oxford)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 27 October 2016 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Send war in our time, O Lord!' Liberal violence and its afterlives: towards a cultural history of the African Resistance Movement (ARM)'
  This seminar has been cancelled.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  TBA
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 3 November 2016 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Mau Mau and Rastafari: Kenya’s War in Jamaica at the End of Empire’
  Myles Osborne (University of Colorado)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 10 November 2016 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - ‘The Gambela Years: SPLA soldiers' memories of exile, 1983-1991’
  Sebabatso Manoeli (University of Oxford)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 17 November 2016 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Cholera and the Politics of Disposability in Harare's High-Density Townships’
  Simukai Chigudu (University of Oxford)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 24 November 2016 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Queer provocations, nightlife and popular culture in Kinshasa’
  Thomas Hendriks (University of Oxford)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 19 January 2017 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Understanding Zimbabwe: from Liberation to Authoritarianism
  Dr Sara Dorman (University of Edinburgh)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 26 January 2017 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - “Clean my Chinese wife”: Intimacy and identity politics of Nigerian migrants in Southern China
  Yu Qiu (University of Cambridge)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 2 February 2017 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - [Book launch] Writing a new history for South Sudan: whose history and for whom?
  Dr Douglas Johnson
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 9 February 2017 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Youth Waithood, Forced Migration, and the Transnational Negotiation of “Fortress” Europe: Case Studies of Congolese Migrants
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Peter Kankonde Bukasa (University of the Witwatersrand and University of Notre Dame)
  African Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Lagos temporalities: Negotiating urban mobilities in an age of mobile telephony
  Naluwembe Binaisa (University College London)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 16 February 2017 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Same Love: A Kenyan Gay Music Video as an African Queer Imaginary
  Dr Adriaan Van Klinken (University of Leeds)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 23 February 2017 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Lagos Girl Power: Performing Postfeminism in Nigeria
  Dr Simidele Dosekun (University of Sussex)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 2 March 2017 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Anthropology as Vulnerology? Reading Possibility into the City's Sutures
  Filip De Boeck (University of Leuven (Belgium))
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 9 March 2017 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Decolonial Citizenship: African Women’s Political Practices in Contested Spaces
  Dr Annette Joseph-Gabriel (University of Arizona )
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 27 April 2017 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - How to Rig an Election: Reflections on Ten Years of Studying Democracy
  Nic Cheeseman
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 4 May 2017 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - An Uncertain Age: The Politics of Manhood in Kenya
  Paul Ocobock (Notre Dame)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 11 May 2017 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Laughing about Corruption in Chinese-Ethiopian Encounters
  Miriam Driessen (University of Oxford)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 18 May 2017 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Bars, Branches, Stereos and Choppers: Innovation in Election Campaign Technologies in Tanzania
  Dan Paget (University of Oxford)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 25 May 2017 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - From the Zariba to the Museum: Violence, Globalisation and Material Culture in Nineteenth Century South Sudan
  Zoe Cormack (University of Oxford)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 12 October 2017 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Ndinga i Sinsu: A Quest for Kongo Art
  Barbaro Martinez-Ruiz (Stanford)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 19 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Words and Deeds: African Migrants in Europe
  Michael Jackson (Harvard)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 26 October 2017 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - China and Africa: a Diplomatic Perspective
  Ambassador Jianhua Zhong, Yuzhou Sun (University of Oxford)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 2 November 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Astor Lecture 2017: ‘Toward a Post-Mortem of the African Revolution: Rethinking the Global Sixties’
  Jean Allman (Washington)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 9 November 2017 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Economic globalisation, poverty and human trafficking in Nigeria
  Daisy Onyige (University of Oxford)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 16 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Social Dimensions of Land Rights Reform in Liberia
  David Brown (University of Oxford)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 23 November 2017 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Citizens for Justice; struggles against violence and predation in wartorn South Sudan
  Rachel Ibreck (Goldsmiths)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 30 November 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Book Launch 'Taken for a Ride: Grounding Neoliberalism, Precarious Labour and Public Transport in an African Metropolis'
  Matteo Rizzo (SOAS)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 18 January 2018 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Why is the Horn different?
  Professor Christopher Clapham (University of Cambridge)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 25 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Negotiating with China: African agency and challenges
  TBA
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 1 February 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Taking normative politics in Africa seriously: can we conceptualize "accessibility" as a political value? Case studies from Southwest Nigeria
  Portia Roelofs (London School of Economics)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 8 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - From rebel movement to political party: UNITA's social engagement in post-war Angola
  Justin Pearce (University of Cambridge)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 15 February 2018 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Capitalist development and political institutions in Tanzania: Explaining variation in party cohesion and legislative power
  Michaela Collord (University of Oxford)
  African Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Capitalist development and political institutions in Tanzania: Explaining variation in party cohesion and legislative power
  Michaela Collord (University of Oxford)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 22 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Affective Communities: Letter Writing and Politics in Independent Kenya, 1963-75
  TBA
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 1 March 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - ‘The politics of things’: digital media, urban space and the materiality of civic engagement
  Wendy Willems (London School of Economics)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 8 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Assessing the African human subject through social science experimentation and Randomized Control Trials
  Dominic Burbidge (University of Oxford)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 17 January 2019 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - African Studies Centre Seminar - Special Issue Launch - Student Activism in an Era of Decolonisation
  Dan Hodgkinson (University of Oxford), Luke Melchiorre (Universidad de los Andes), Marcia Schenck (Freie Universitat Berlin)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 12 October 2023 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - After 10 Years of the Latin American History Seminar: A Conversation about Latin American Historiography
  Alan Knight (Oxford), Eduardo Posada-Carbó (Oxford)
  Latin American History Seminar

Thursday 19 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Crisis, Revolution, Reform and Continuity: The Chilean Constitutional Tradition and the Current Constituent Process
  Juan Luis Ossa (Centro de Estudios Públicos, Santiago)
  Latin American History Seminar

Friday 20 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Buddhist Body of the King: Ritual practices of consecration in medieval Japan
  Prof. Lucia Dolce (SOAS)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Thursday 26 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Stealing to Stave Off Hunger. Environmental Calamities, the Poor, and the Law in Post-Independence Colombia
  Angela Pérez-Villa (Western Michigan University and LAC)
  Latin American History Seminar

Friday 27 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The universal language of the body
  Tarinainanika Theatre Company (Tarinainanika Theatre Company)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Thursday 2 November 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - "A Church with Open Doors": Base Communities, Liberation Theology, and the Catholic Church in Urban Brazil
  Daniel McDonald (LAC and History Faculty)
  Latin American History Seminar

Friday 3 November 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Japan’s “three national security documents” and fundamental reinforcement of defence capabilities: reinforcing a radical military trajectory
  Prof. Christopher W. Hughes (University of Warwick)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Thursday 9 November 2023 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Giving Shape to Silences in Mexican History: Anti-Japanese Racism, Persecution and the Second World War Concentration System
  Jessica A Fernández de Lara Harada (LAC and History Faculty)
  Latin American History Seminar

Friday 10 November 2023 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Compass Rose meets the Rising Sun: a new era of NATO-Japan Relations
  Dr Wrenn Lindgren (Norwegian Institute of International Affairs)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Wednesday 15 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The return of geopolitics in East Asia: Japan’s responses to regional uncertainty
  Mr Koichiro Matsumoto (Director of Research at the Japan Institute of International Affairs)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Thursday 16 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Lessons from the Argentine Destape: Sex and Culture in the Transition to Democracy
  Natalia Milanesio (UCL and University of Houston)
  Latin American History Seminar

Friday 17 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - From ‘closedness’ to ‘closeness’: how changing community values sustains a traditional craft industry
  Dr Shilla Lee (Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Thursday 23 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Guerra Seminar: Construcción nacional y construcción de las representaciones del “indio” en el Perú, 1821-1879
  Maud Yvinec (Universidad París 3 – Sorbonne Nouvelle)
  Latin American History Seminar

Friday 24 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Kabuki music and compositions
  Denjiro Tanaka VII and associates (Denjiro Tanaka VII and associates)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Thursday 30 November 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Villas as Urban Change: Contesting Narratives of Modernity in Twentieth-Century Buenos Aires
  Adriana Massidda (University of Sheffield)
  Latin American History Seminar

Friday 1 December 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Geoeconomic implications of the Japan-EU Relations – trade, digitalization and sustainability
  Prof. Patrik Ström (Stockholm School of Economics)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Thursday 18 January 2024 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Criminal Crossroads: Underworld Dynamics in Contemporary Japan
  Dr Martina Baradel (University of Oxford)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
• 17:00 - Mexico and the Spanish Civil War
  Alan Knight (Latin American Centre, Oxford)
  Latin American History Seminar

Friday 19 January 2024 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - From #Metoo to the feminist funa in Chile. Online public shaming as a feminist practice for social change: a critical analysis of current feminist movements in LA
  Blanca Larrain (University of Cambridge)
  Latin American Centre (LAC) Main Seminar Series

Tuesday 23 January 2024 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - A critical synergy: critical race theory and decolonial thought
  Ali Meghji (University of Cambridge)
  Latin American Centre (LAC) Main Seminar Series

Thursday 25 January 2024 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Sensory Perception: Cultural Exchange, Development and Understanding
  Miss Nicole Watson (Director of Surface Area Dance Company)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
• 17:00 - Populism: A History of the Word in Latin America
  Nicolás Prados (UCL)
  Latin American History Seminar

Tuesday 30 January 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Monte de Chila 1970: Mexico’s Forgotten Massacre
  Benjamin Smith (University of Warwick)
  Latin American Centre (LAC) Main Seminar Series

Thursday 1 February 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Affect, Emotion and Sensibility in Modern Japanese Literature
  Professor Reiko Abe Auestad (University of Oslo)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
• 17:00 - Armed Citizen and Citizens in Arms: The Military and the Creation of the State in Peru (1800-1860)
  Natalia Sobrevilla Perea (University of Kent)
  Latin American History Seminar

Thursday 8 February 2024 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Memories of Cinema-Going in Postwar Japan: An Ethno-History
  Professor Jennifer Coates (University of Sheffield)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
• 17:00 - Carreño’s Manual: Manners, Society, History, from 1853 to the Present
  Patience Schell (University of Aberdeen)
  Latin American History Seminar

Friday 9 February 2024 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Geopolitics of the Li‐ion Battery Supply Chain and the Lithium Triangle in South America
  Daniela Sánchez-López (Nyobolt, Cambridge)
  Latin American Centre (LAC) Main Seminar Series

Tuesday 13 February 2024 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Building Mobilizing Capabilities for an Uprising: Citizenship and Community Organizing in Chile’s Urban Margins
  Simón Escoffier (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
  Latin American Centre (LAC) Main Seminar Series

Thursday 15 February 2024 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Language as a Technology for Shaping Professional Identity: Translating ‘A Manual of the Steam Engine’ in Mid-Nineteenth Century Japan
  Dr Ruselle Meade (Cardiff University)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  Latin American History Seminar

Thursday 22 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Eleven Winters of Discontent: The Siberian Internment and the Making of a New Japan
  Professor Sherzod Muminov (University of East Anglia)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  Latin American History Seminar

Friday 23 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Citizenship inequalities and birth tourism industry in Latin America: the case of Brazil
  Svetlana Ruseishvili (Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil)
  Latin American Centre (LAC) Main Seminar Series

Thursday 29 February 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - This Monk Wears Heels – Buddhism and Sexuality
  Ven. Kodo Nishimura (Artist, Buddhist Monk, and LGBTQ+ Activist)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
• 17:00 - Development assistance and state planning in the emergence of Colombia’s technocracy, 1948-1974
  Andrés Guiot-Isaac (LSE)
  Latin American History Seminar

Friday 1 March 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Resilient Constitutional Justice: The Brazilian Experience
  Saul Tourinho Leal
  Latin American Centre (LAC) Main Seminar Series

Thursday 7 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - American Social Order and Empire: Slavery and Taxation in Eighteenth-Century Brazil
  Kirsten Schultz (Seton Hall University, New Jersey)
  Latin American History Seminar
• 17:00 - A Preview Test Screening of a New Documentary Film - The Squid and the Pine by John Williams
  John Williams (Director)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Friday 8 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:30 - Japan Politics Colloquium
  TBA
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
• 17:00 - Back to the world stage? Rethinking Brazilian foreign policy in an uncertain world
  Part of the Brazilian Studies Programme Annual Conference
  Various Speakers
  Latin American Centre (LAC) Main Seminar Series

Monday 11 March 2024 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:00 - The Free and Open Indo-Pacific: Japan's Strategic Vision Goes Global
  TBA
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Tuesday 23 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The Politics of Drug Policymaking in Brazil: The Role and Notions of Evidence
  Felipe Neis Araujo (University of Manchester)
  Latin American Centre (LAC) Main Seminar Series

Thursday 25 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The Inaugural Interdisciplinary Dialogues - Seeing Berlin from the Periphery: Latin American Reactions to European Imperial Expansion in the late Nineteenth Century
  Tom Long (Warwick/Cambridge), Carsten-Andreas Schulz (Cambridge)
  Latin American History Seminar

Friday 26 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - A Conversation with Author Sayaka Murata – Living, Writing and Transformation
  Sayaka Murata
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Tuesday 30 April 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Business of the State: Why State Ownership Matters for Resource Governance
  Jewellord T. Nem Singh (The Wilson Centre, Washington DC)
  Latin American Centre (LAC) Main Seminar Series

Thursday 2 May 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Maya Archaeology and the (Banana) Landscape: Environment, Agriculture, and the Making of National Heritage in Guatemala, c. 1920-1944
  Sophie Brockmann (UCL)
  Latin American History Seminar

Friday 3 May 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - New Life From the Ruins of Japanese Death Rites
  Dr Hannah Gould (University of Melbourne)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Thursday 9 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Between aesthetics and politics: Translation in Mexican cultural magazines of the early twentieth century
  Marina Popea (Trinity College, Oxford)
  Latin American History Seminar

Friday 10 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Making of the “Feebleminded”: Gender and Family for the Medical Discourse Around Eugenic Sterilization in 1950s Japan
  Dr Aya Homei (University of Manchester)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Tuesday 14 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Unmooring with Roots: Party System Decay Amidst Polarization in Argentina
  Ezequiel González Ocantos (University of Oxford)
  Latin American Centre (LAC) Main Seminar Series

Thursday 16 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Consuming Idealized Domesticity: The Modern Housewife on Brazilian Daytime Television, 1950-1970
  Thamirys Almeida (Swarthmore College, and LAC)
  Latin American History Seminar

Friday 17 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Great Power Politics and Japan’s Immigration Dilemma
  Dr Anand Rao (SUNY Geneseo)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Tuesday 21 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Countering Convergent Threats? Colombian South-South Security Cooperation in Latin America
  Markus Hochmüller (University of Oxford), Markus-Michael Müller (Roskilde University)
  Latin American Centre (LAC) Main Seminar Series

Wednesday 22 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Valedictory Lecture – A ‘Class’-Less Society Japan? How is Inequality Interpreted Without the Concept of Class?
  Professor Takehiko Kariya (University of Oxford)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Thursday 23 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Panel discussion: The Press and the Global History of Democracy in Nineteenth Century Latin America
  Paula Alonso (George Washington University), Laura Cucchi (LAC), Juan Neves (History Faculty, Oxford), Eduardo Posada-Carbó (LAC and History Faculty, Oxford)
  Latin American History Seminar

Friday 24 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Book Launch – Reopening the Opening of Japan: Transnational Approaches to Modern Japan and the Wider World
  Professor Sho Konishi (University of Oxford), Dr Lewis Bremner (University of Cambridge), Dr Chinami Oka (University of Oxford), Dr Mateja Kovacic (Hong Kong Baptist University), Joel Littler (University of Oxford), Dr Manimporok (Brown University)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Thursday 6 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Malcolm Deas Annual Seminar - title tba
  Marco Palacios (El Colegio de México)
  Latin American History Seminar