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Description: Events of interest to Oxford School of Global and Area Studies
Talks:

Monday 9 March 2026

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

Is the changed relationship between voters and legislators due to the development of the Internet a boon for good decision-making - or a challenge?
Date: 9 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker s: Nusrat Ghani, Professor Ignacio Cofone (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR), St Antony's College
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 10 March 2026

South Asia-Africa Seminar Series: The Politics and Technologies of Measurement
Date: 10 March 2026, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Dr Shankar Nair (Oxford), Dr Rachel King (UCL)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organisers: Rebekah Lee (University of Oxford), Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

CANCELLED: Co-opting Piety: Religion, Elite Power, and Democratic Decline in Indonesia
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 10 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Chris Chaplin (LSE)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Dahrendorf Room
Organiser: Professor Jacob Ricks (Singapore Management University)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 11 March 2026

How Economic Reform Revived Totalitarian Rule in China
Date: 11 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Minxin Pei (Claremont McKenna College)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Professor Patricia Thornton (University of Oxford), Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)

Thursday 12 March 2026

Ideology Without Unity: The Logic of Xi Jinping Thought
Date: 12 March 2026, 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker : Professor Chris Mittelstaedt (University of Zurich)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organisers: Dr Mark Czeller (University of Oxford), Dr Cheuk Yee Wai (University of Oxford), Professor Tian Yuan Tan (University of Oxford), Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford), Dr Zhe Wang (University of Oxford), Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford), Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford), Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

From Politics to People? Changing Protagonists and the Transformation of NHK Television News
Date: 12 March 2026, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Dr Yosuke Buchmeier (Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, University of Oxford)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor Gateway Building
Organisers: Dr Yosuke Buchmeier (Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, University of Oxford), Professor Roger Goodman (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Slovakia’s Democratic Oscillation
Date: 12 March 2026, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Professor Tim Haughton (University of Birmingham)
Venue: St Antony's College - Main Site, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Transnational Propaganda and Ethnic Polarization: Experimental Evidence from Malaysia
Date: 12 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Jeremy Siow (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Dr Mark Czeller (University of Oxford), Dr Cheuk Yee Wai (University of Oxford), Professor Tian Yuan Tan (University of Oxford), Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford), Dr Zhe Wang (University of Oxford), Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford), Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford)

Monday 16 March 2026

China–Russia Relations and Allies and Subsidized Capacity Building
Date: 16 March 2026, 12:00 - 13:15
Speaker : Dr Oriana Skylar Mastro (Stanford University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)

Thursday 30 April 2026

African Studies Centre Annual Lecture 2026 - Decolonisation: Lessons from post-colonial Uganda
Date: 30 April 2026, 15:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Mahmood Mamdani (Columbia University)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Dr Miles Tendi (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 4 May 2026

Islamic China: An Asian History
Date: 4 May 2026, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Dr Rian Thum (University of Manchester)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Zhe Wang (University of Oxford)

Thursday 4 June 2026

Do Old-Age Security Concerns Still Motivate Fertility in China?
Date: 4 June 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Yang Hu (University College London)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organisers: Dr Mark Czeller (University of Oxford), Dr Cheuk Yee Wai (University of Oxford), Professor Tian Yuan Tan (University of Oxford), Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford), Dr Zhe Wang (University of Oxford), Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford), Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Zhe Wang (University of Oxford)

This list contains talks from the following series:
African Studies Seminar Series
Baillie Gifford Distinguished Speaker Series
China Centre Conversation series
China Centre talks
China Studies Seminar series
Israel Studies Seminar
LAC Main Seminar Series
Latin American Centre (LAC) Main Seminar Series
Latin American History Seminar
Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
Oxford China Reading Group
Oxford Seminar in the Pre-Modern History of East Asia
Oxford Taiwan Studies Seminar Series
RESC Monday Seminar
St Antony's Visiting Parliamentary Fellowship
Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China