Wednesday 14 May 2025

• 17:00 - Rich World, Poor World: The Struggle to Escape Poverty in Muslim Societies
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Mr Ali Allawi (Former Minister of Finance, Defense, and Trade of Iraq)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Governing Migration and Mobility: Military-Humanitarianism at Brazil’s Northern Frontier
  Dr Bronte Alexander (Collegium Helveticum, Zurich)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 15 May 2025

• 15:45 - Our Refugee, Your Refugee: A Story across Three Nations
  Eun Hye Son (TV Reporter & Journalist, KBS)
  The Art of Migration: artists, film & arts-based approaches to migration studies

Tuesday 20 May 2025

• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky (University of California, Santa Barbara)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Wednesday 21 May 2025

• 17:00 - Building State Capacity in Fragile States
  Dr Michael Callen (London School of Economics)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Wednesday 28 May 2025

• 17:00 - The Origins of Perso-Islamic Courts and Empires in India
  Professor Blain Auer (University of Lausanne)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 29 May 2025

• 17:00 - Bridging the gap between research and policy in international affairs: A practitioner’s perspective
  Giulio Venneri (Luiss School of Government)
  European Studies Seminar

Wednesday 4 June 2025

• 17:00 - Iran’s Crisis of Governance
  Professor Anoush Ehteshami (Durham University)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Ruling Emancipated Slaves and Indigenous Subjects: The Divergent Legacies of Forced Settlement and Colonial Occupation in the Global South
  Professor Olukunle Owolabi (Villanova University)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Wednesday 11 June 2025

• 17:00 - Al-Ghazālī and the Ideal of Godlikeness
  Dr Sophia Vasalou (University of Birmingham)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture 2025 | Living Archives: Palestinian Displacement in Lebanon
  Professor Diana Allan (McGill University)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Wednesday 18 June 2025

• 17:00 - A Bridge to the Sky: From ibn Firnas (d. 887) and the Cordoban Court to Imagining Baghdad in Assassin’s Creed Mirage
  Dr Glaire Anderson (University of Edinburgh)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars