Tuesday 29 April 2025

• 17:00 - European Defence: How can the EU best work with the UK and other non-EU states? And will it?
  This event will be also be online.The link to register will be added soon.
  Brendan Devlin (European Commission), Luigi Scazzieri (Centre for European Reform)
  European Studies Seminar

Wednesday 30 April 2025

• 17:00 - Political Economy and Economic Institutions of the Ottoman Empire in Comparative Perspective
  Professor Sevket Pamuk (Bogazici University)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 1 May 2025

• 15:45 - Migration & The Arts
  Bartolomeo Bartolini (Puppeteer, Performer, Producer), Anja Meinhardt (Artistic Dirctor, Justice in Motion), Antônia Spohr Moro (Offbeat Producer), Nathan Grassi (COMPAS Administrator, University of Oxford)
  The Art of Migration: artists, film & arts-based approaches to migration studies

Wednesday 7 May 2025

• 17:00 - Beyond Castes and Regions: The Socio-Economic Decline of Muslims in Contemporary India
  Professor Christophe Jaffrelot (Kings College, London)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Localization in the Rohingya refugee response
  Dr Miriam Bradley (University of Manchester)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 8 May 2025

• 15:45 - Migration and the arts of co-production: urban mobilities and carceral London
  Susannah Cramer-Greenbaum (UCL), Michael Keith (COMPAS, University of Oxford), Eda Yazici (University of Bristol)
  The Art of Migration: artists, film & arts-based approaches to migration studies

Wednesday 14 May 2025

• 17:00 - Rich World, Poor World: The Struggle to Escape Poverty in Muslim Societies
  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

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 Allen (McGill University)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Wednesday 18 June 2025

• 17:00 - A Bridge to the Sky: Science and Arts in the Age of Ibn Firnas (d. 887)
  Dr Glaire Anderson (University of Edinburgh)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars