Tuesday 21 January 2025

• 17:00 - EU-China relations: Can cooperation and competition coexist?
  Lucie Qian Xia (Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford), Dimitar Bechev (Oxford School of Global Area Studies)
  European Studies Seminar

Wednesday 22 January 2025

• 17:00 - Monarchy and Mass Politics in the Middle East
  Professor Scott Williamson (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Producing the Camp-able Territory: Displacement, Domicide, and the Common Camp in Palestine-Israel’s Century of Settler Colonialism
  Dr Irit Katz (University of Cambridge)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 23 January 2025

• 15:45 - Migration Narratives: What They Are and Why They Matter
  James Dennison (European University Institute)
  Can We Measure Stories?

Wednesday 29 January 2025

• 17:00 - The Sun Sets in the West: The Battle for Soft Power in a Multipolar World
  Mr Simon Anholt (Anholt & Co.)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Refuge-Making: Stories from Iraq
  Dr Sana Murrani (University of Plymouth)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Wednesday 5 February 2025

• 17:00 - Mirror of the Universe: The Evolution of the Astrolabe
  Dr Taha Arslan (Istanbul Medeniyet University)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 6 February 2025

• 15:45 - Visualization Choices About Refugees Have Delimited Impacts Along Partisan Lines
  William L. Allen (University of Southampton)
  Can We Measure Stories?
• 17:00 - No Exit: Preventing Exit to Prevent Entry
  Note - this seminar takes place on a Thursday, not the usual Wednesday
  Professor Audrey Macklin (University of Toronto)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Tuesday 11 February 2025

• 17:00 - The new European Parliament and European Commission: Who won the 2024 power-play in Brussels?
  Anthony Teasdale (Visiting Professor, LSE and Columbia; former Director General, European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS) (2013-22)), Klaus Welle (Chair, Academic Council, Martens Centre; former Secretary General, European Parliament (2009-22))
  European Studies Seminar

Wednesday 12 February 2025

• 17:00 - Social, Cultural and Political Determinants of Riots
  Professor Kamaldeep Bhui (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Film Screening and Q&A: Chileans of the North
  Professor Ben Bollig (Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford), Dr Helia López Zarzosa (Sociologist and Independent Researcher), Chris Paul (Director, Chileans of the North)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 13 February 2025

• 15:45 - Quantitative Approaches to Measuring Migration Narrative and Potential Uses of AI
  Robert McNeil (University of Oxford), Vahid Ghafouri (IMDEA Software Institute)
  Can We Measure Stories?

Wednesday 19 February 2025

• 15:00 - Non-signatory States in International Refugee Law
  Professor Maja Janmyr (University of Oslo)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Economic Diversification, State Fragility, and Development in Muslim Societies
  Professor Adnan Khan (FCDO)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Tuesday 25 February 2025

• 17:00 - Famine in the Spanish Civil War: Propaganda and communication
  Ainhoa Campos Posada (Ramón Areces Visiting Fellow, St Antony’s College, Oxford), Tom Buchanan (University of Oxford)
  European Studies Seminar

Wednesday 26 February 2025

• 12:00 - Mecca in Morocco: Studying the Socio-Cultural Embeddedness of Pilgrimage in Muslim Everyday Life
  Dr Kholoud al-Ajarma (University of Edinburgh)
• 12:00 - Mecca in Morocco: Studying the Socio-Cultural Embeddedness of Pilgrimage in Muslim Everyday Life
  Dr Kholoud al-Ajarma (University of Edinburgh)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Coinage of Mughal South Asia and the Muslim Chain of Being
  Professor Azfar Moin (University of Texas, Austin)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Scattered: The making and unmaking of a refugee. A conversation with Aamna Mohdin
  Aamna Mohdi (The Guardian)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 27 February 2025

• 15:45 - Narrative and Misinformation Response
  Scott Hale (University of Oxford)
  Can We Measure Stories?

Tuesday 4 March 2025

• 17:00 - Defining diversity in global higher education: To whom does it refer and why does it matter?
  Sonia Geibel (Dahrendorf Visiting Fellow, St Antony’s College, Oxford)
  European Studies Seminar

Wednesday 5 March 2025

• 17:00 - How to Study Arabic and Islamic Philosophy? Once Again about al-Ghazali and Descartes
  Professor Frank Griffel (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 6 March 2025

• 14:00 - Musaliar King: De-colonial Historiography of Malabar Resistance
  Dr Abbas Panakkal (University of St Andrews)

Tuesday 11 March 2025

• 17:00 - The transition away from fossil fuels in Europe: Geopolitical and practical implications
  Brendan Devlin (EU Visiting Fellow, St Antony’s College, Oxford), Anthony Calacino (Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford)
  European Studies Seminar

Wednesday 12 March 2025

• 17:00 - Reflections on the War in Sudan
  Dame Rosalind Marsden (RIIA)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - 'Wicked' Challenges in Migration Management: Weaponization, Politicization, and Hostile Influence Operations
  Professor Kelly Greenhill (Tufts University and MIT)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The Trump Administration and South East Europe: Expectations and implications
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBC
  European Studies Seminar

Thursday 13 March 2025

• 15:45 - Seeing Stories: Can We Visualise Public Migration Narratives, And If So, How?
  Luc Rocher (University of Oxford), Adam Mahdi (University of Oxford)
  Can We Measure Stories?