Monday 12 May 2025

• 09:30 - iSkills: Using AI to find, analyse, and share information sources
  Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Luke Geraghty (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 12:00 - What Economists Really Do: The Political and Economic Risks of AI
  Jean-Paul Carvalho (University of Oxford)
  What Economists Really Do (W.E.R.D.)
• 13:00 - iSkills: Searching for patents and standards
  Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Alessandra Vetrugno (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 13:30 - Referencing: EndNote
  Oliver Bridle (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Hannah Medworth (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications

Tuesday 13 May 2025

• 10:00 - Preparing for your literature review in the Social Sciences
  Pinelopi Flaouna (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Katie Allen (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 13:00 - CSAE Workshop Week 3
  Ben Brunkhorst (World Bank)
  CSAE Research Workshops
• 13:30 - Title TBC
  No Seminar this week
  TBA
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Afghanistan and the Concept of Asia: Intellectual Geographies in an Age of Reform
  Marya Hannun (University of Exeter)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Europe and the Black Sea regional (in)security: A story of mutual creation?
  Galip Dalay (St Antony’s College, Oxford), Natalie Sabanadze (Chatham House), Nigel Gould-Davies (International Institute for Strategic Studies), Ian Lesser (German Marshal Fund), Keir Giles (Chatham House)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)

Wednesday 14 May 2025

• 12:00 - iSkills: Research metrics and citation analysis tools: Part 2 article metrics
  Oliver Bridle (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 12:30 - Private Colonialism in Africa
  Joint with the political economy research group
  Elias Papaioannou (London Business School)
  CSAE Lunchtime Seminars
• 14:00 - iSkills: Sources for modern global history
  Isabel Holowaty (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Lucy McCann (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 16:00 - Who Moves & Who Stays? Climate change, mobility & gender in Ethiopia
  Hybrid event. Please use the link below for webinar registration.
  Jin-Ho Chung (University of Oxford)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series
• 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

• 09:30 - iSkills: Keeping up to date with research
  Helen Worrell (Bodleian Libraries), Morwenna Broughton (Bodleian Libraries)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 15:00 - AI Safety in Practice: Safeguarding Against Real-World Misuse and Near-Term Harms
  Broderick McDonald (Kings College London)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus

Monday 19 May 2025

• 13:00 - iSkills: Using Scopus for your research
  Alessandra Vetrugno (Radcliffe Science Library, University of Oxford), Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications

Tuesday 20 May 2025

• 09:30 - iSkills: Unlocking critical thinking for undergraduates
  Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Luke Geraghty (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 13:00 - CSAE Workshop Week 4
  Samyuktha Kannan (Wageningen University)
  CSAE Research Workshops
• 13:30 - Hybrid Warfare
  Dr Johann Schmid (Bundeswehr & SST- CCW)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Labour as Method: Studying Technologies of the South
  Hemangini Gupta (University of Edinburgh)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky (University of California, Santa Barbara)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Wednesday 21 May 2025

• 09:30 - Referencing: EndNote
  Oliver Bridle (Radcliffe Science Library, University of Oxford), Hannah Medworth (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 11:30 - iSkills: Newspapers and other online news sources from the 17th-21st centuries
  Isabel Holowaty (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Jo Gardner (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 12:30 - TBD
  TBA
  CSAE Lunchtime Seminars
• 14:00 - Referencing: RefWorks
  Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Kat Steiner (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Sophie Lay (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 17:00 - Building State Capacity in Fragile States
  Dr Michael Callen (London School of Economics)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Reframing Modern China: Deaf Education and the Sensory Politics of Race and Empire
  Shu Wan (University of Buffalo), Gemma McLean-Carr (University of Edinburgh)
  International History of East Asia Seminar
• 17:15 - Environmental and Medical Legacies of the East Asian War of 1592-1598
  Duan Baihui (Lancaster)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 22 May 2025

• 10:00 - iSkills: Scholarly literature for your research
  Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Pinelopi Flaouna (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Marija Babic (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 12:00 - iSkills: Research metrics and citation analysis tools: Part 3 researcher metrics
  Oliver Bridle (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 15:00 - Strategic Instability: A Practitioner’s Perspective on Narratives Fueling the Conventional and Emerging Tech
  Karuna Nandkumar (Oxford China Policy Lab)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus

Tuesday 27 May 2025

• 13:00 - CSAE Workshop Week 5
  Hannah Timmis (University of Oxford), Anvita Ramachandran (University of Oxford)
  CSAE Research Workshops
• 13:30 - African Military Thought
  Tycho van der Hoog (Netherlands Defence Academy.)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Designing with the Rohingya: Trauma, Resilience, Memory
  Professor Esther da Costa Meyer (Princeton University and Yale University)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 14:00 - iSkills: Data sources for research - discovery, access and use
  John Southall (University of Oxford), John Pilbeam (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications

Wednesday 28 May 2025

• 09:30 - Referencing: Zotero
  Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Andrew Kernot (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxord)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 12:30 - Daughters Left Behind: How Trade Liberalization Harms Girls in China when Government Restricts Migration
  Joint with Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies
  Mushfiq Mobarak (Yale University)
  CSAE Lunchtime Seminars
• 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

• 14:00 - iSkills: Sources for US history
  Bethan Davies (Vere Harmsworth Library)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 15:00 - Security Profile of Network Infrastructure in the High North and the Baltic Sea – Prospects for continued NATO-EU collaboration
  Anniki Mikelsaar (Oxford Internet Institute)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus

Monday 2 June 2025

• 09:30 - iSkills: Using AI to find, analyse, and share information sources
  Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Luke Geraghty (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications

Tuesday 3 June 2025

• 13:00 - CSAE Workshop Week 6
  Priya Manwaring (University of Oxford)
  CSAE Research Workshops
• 14:00 - Ecologies of Caste and Waste: Dependence and Value Making at the Bhalswa Landfill in Delhi
  Aparna Agarwal (University of Lausanne)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 14:00 - iSkills: Managing research data and Data Management Planning (DMPs)
  John Southall (University of Oxford), John Pilbeam (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 15:00 - Launch of Forced Migration Review 75 - Dangerous journeys: Saving lives and responding to missing migrants and refugees
  Various Speakers
• 17:00 - From anti-Americanism to Americanofilia: The US in the kaleidoscope of Greek society
  Eirini Karamouzi (University of Sheffield), Lamprini Rori (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), Paul Betts (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)

Wednesday 4 June 2025

• 12:30 - Unconditional Cash Transfers and Child Mortality: Experimental Evidence from Kenya
  Edward Miguel (University of California, Berkeley)
  CSAE Lunchtime Seminars
• 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
• 17:00 - The Ties that Bind: Military and Revolutionary Networks Across Asia
  Zachary Clark (Pennsylvania State University), Ning Zhang (University of Oxford)
  International History of East Asia Seminar
• 17:15 - Empires in Flux: The Global Impact of the Napoleonic Wars
  Alexander Mikaberidze (Louisiana State University Shreveport)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 5 June 2025

• 15:00 - The Securitisation of AI Safety Institutes
  Renan Araujo (Institute for AI Policy and Strategy)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus

Tuesday 10 June 2025

• 13:00 - CSAE Workshop Week 7
  Jordan Imahori (University of Oxford)
  CSAE Research Workshops
• 14:00 - iSkills: Working with sensitive research data
  John Southall (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), John Pilbeam (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 14:00 - Rangoonwala Fellows: Development and Displacement in Pakistan
  Ilyas Chattha (Lahore University of Management Sciences), Azeema Cheema (Verso Consulting), Arslan Waheed (Institute of Business Administration, Karachi)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 11 June 2025

• 12:30 - Title TBC
  Rohini Pande (Yale University)
  CSAE Lunchtime Seminars
• 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

Thursday 12 June 2025

• 15:00 - Budgeting for AI: Towards a Systematic Understanding of the Impact of Public Budgeting on Public Sector AI Adoption
  Chloe Chadwick (Oxford Internet Institute)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus

Tuesday 17 June 2025

• 13:00 - No CSAE Workshop this week
  TBA
  CSAE Research Workshops
• 14:00 - Title TBC
  Rohini Pande (Yale University)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 18 June 2025

• 12:30 - No seminar this week
  TBA
  CSAE Lunchtime Seminars
• 13:00 - Colonial intersections and global connections: China, Japan, and Manchuria in the early 20th century
  Zhenyan Lu (King's College London), Dr. Gloria Yu Yang (Kyushu University)
  International History of East Asia Seminar
• 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

Thursday 19 June 2025

• 14:00 - iSkills: Managing research data and Data Management Planning (DMPs)
  John Southall (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), John Pilbeam (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications