Monday 18 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Electoral Cycles in Crime: Evidence from India
  Shruti Lakhtakia (Blavatnik School of Government)
  CSAE Research Workshops
• 16:00 - On Data Availability for Assessing Monetary and Multidimensional Poverty
  Change of topic for this session. The original session is postponed.
  Dr Sabina Alkire (University of Oxford), Yanchun Zhang (UNDP HDRO), Heriberto Tapia (UNDP HDRO)
  OPHI Seminar Series

Tuesday 19 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Blood, Metal and Dust: How Victory Turned into Defeat in Afghanistan and Iraq
  Brigadier (rtd) Ben Barry (OBE (IISS))
  Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars
• 14:00 - Affect as a Technology of Rule: Militarism in Pakistan
  Maria Rashid (UCL)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Mixed Methods: crossing the qual-quant divide
  Leigh A. Payne (Professor of Sociology, University of Oxford), Heather Hamill (University of Oxford), Dr Olivier Sterck (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Minds from the Social Sciences Division

Wednesday 20 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Online panel discussion: "National ‘fair shares’ in GHG mitigation, international environmental law & climate litigation"
  Professor Dr Niklas Höhne (Founding Partner, NewClimate Institute), Dr Louise Jeffery (Climate Policy Analyst, NewClimate Institute), Gerry Liston (Legal Officer, Global Legal Action Network (GLAN)), Lucy Maxwell (Senior Legal Associate, Climate Litigation Network), Professor Lavanya Rajamani (Faculty of Law)
  Oxford Martin School Public Lectures
• 12:30 - Political Reservations as Term Limits
  If you will be joining us via Zoom, please register via the link below.
  Caitlin Brown (University of Manchester)
  CSAE Lunchtime Seminars
• 17:30 - Gender and humanitarian representations of Syrian refugees during displacement
  Numbers will be limited and you will be asked to register upon arrival.
  Dr Michelle Lokot (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 21 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - International Authority and Institutionalized Inequalities
  Prof Michael Zurn (Free University Berlin)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 22 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Magnifying the man about town: orature and print personhood in 1920s Lagos
  Prof Karin Barber (LSE)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Michaelmas 2021
• 16:00 - Colombo as Idea and Artefact
  Professor Sujit Sivasundaram (Cambridge)
  Global & Imperial History Research Seminar - Global Asia
• 17:00 - From Economic Fantasy to Ecological Reality on Climate Change
  Professor Steve Keen (UCL)
  Climate Change and the Challenges of Development
• 17:00 - MEC Friday Webinar Series - Dr Hussam Hussein - The politics of water scarcity in the case of Jordan
  Registration is essential
  Dr. Hussam Hussein, Lecturer in International Relations at DPIR, Oxford Martin School Fellow in Water Diplomacy, and Fulford Junior Research Fellow at Somerville College
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 25 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Development and Climate Justice: Why there can't be one without the other
  Chukwumerije Okereke (University of Reading)
  Development and Photo Ethics
• 13:00 - The Media or the Message? Experimental Evidence on Mass Media and Modern Contraception Uptake in Burkina Faso
  Victor Pouliquen (University of Oxford)
  CSAE Research Workshops
• 16:00 - Measuring the Statistical Capacity of Nations
  Professor James Foster (Georges Washington University)
  OPHI Seminar Series

Tuesday 26 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Integration – the Goldilocks factor 
  Lt. Col. Al Brown (British Army)
  Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars
• 14:00 - Decolonise Mosquitoes
  Rohan Deb Roy (University of Reading)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Water Security for Climate Resilience: How research can support action for COP26 and beyond (Hybrid Event)
  Dr Katrina Charles (University of Oxford), Dr Anna Murgatroyd (University of Oxford), Dr. Marina Korzenevica (University of Oxford), Dr Seifu Kebede (University of KwaZulu Natal / Addis Ababa University), Professor Rob Hope (University of Oxford), Dr. Ellen Dyer (University of Oxford), Prof Mashfiqus Salehin (Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology)

Wednesday 27 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - The Option-Value of Overstaying
  If you will be joining us via Zoom, please register via the link below.
  Romuald Méango (University of Oxford)
  CSAE Lunchtime Seminars
• 17:00 - Panel Discussion: "What does the future hold for cities, climate change and migration"
  Prof Susan Parnell (PEAK Urban), Professor Tim Schwanen (Transport Studies Unit University of Oxford ), Prof Kazem Rahimi (University of Oxford), Prof Michael Keith (COMPAS, University of Oxford)
  Oxford Martin School Public Lectures
• 17:00 - Book Launch: Modi’s India: Hindu Nationalism and the rise of ethnic Democracy
  Booking essential limited capacity - email asian@sant.ox.ac.uk
  Christophe Jaffrelot (CERI Sciences Po/CNRS in Paris and Professor of Indian Politics and Sociology at King's College London)
• 17:30 - Refugeedom’s Subjects and Subjectivities
  Numbers will be limited and registration will be required on arrival.
  Dr Arek Dakessian (Queen Margaret University of Edinburgh)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 28 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - When is it “ok” to leave? U.S. public opinion toward withdrawal from international organizations
  Please join the Zoom call 5 minutes before the start of the talk.
  Dr Inken von Borzyskowski (UCL)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 17:30 - Refugee Entrepreneurship and Gender Paradoxes
  Numbers will be limited and you will be asked to register upon arrival.
  Dr Farah Al Taji (Al-Balqa University)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:30 - University of Oxford Black History Month Lecture 2021, by BME Staff Network
  TBA

Friday 29 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Black skins/white languages: artmaking in Western languages by Kurdish migrant women artists
  Dr Özlem Belçim Galip (Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow, The School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Michaelmas 2021
• 15:30 - Book discussion on 'Mountain Tales: Love and Loss in the Municipality of Castaway Belongings' by Saumya Roy
  Saumya Roy (Journalist and activist)
• 16:00 - The 1972 Ugandan Asian Expulsion: Making a Transnational Diaspora fit a World of Nation-States
  Dr Ria Kapoor (Manchester)
  Global & Imperial History Research Seminar - Global Asia
• 17:00 - The blue-clad fennec: authoritarian environmentalism in Tunisia, and its afterlives
  Registration essential.
  Dr. Jamie Furniss, Institut de recherche sur le Maghreb contemporain (Tunis)/Department of Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 1 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Binta Zahra Diop (University of Oxford)
  CSAE Research Workshops

Tuesday 2 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Triple Axis: Iran's relations with Russia and China
  TBA
  Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars
• 14:00 - The Lessons of 1950: Partition, and the making of the India- Pakistan Dynamic
  TBA
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Theory-Building: generating testable abstractions
  Prof Federico Varese (University of Oxford), Dr Martha Newson (University of Oxford), Dr Andrea Ruggeri (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Minds from the Social Sciences Division
• 17:00 - Graduate Student Presentations (TBC)
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Transnational and Global History Seminar

Wednesday 3 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - In-Kind Transfers as Insurance
  If you will be joining us via Zoom, please register via the link below.
  Lucie Gadenne (University of Warwick)
  CSAE Lunchtime Seminars
• 17:30 - "A Refugee-Led Study on Refugee-Led Organisations" | RSC/BIEA Refugee Led Research Hub
  Abis Getachew, Andhira Kara, Mary Gitahi, Uwezo Ramazani
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 4 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Mano Dura: An Experimental Evaluation of Military Policing in Cali, Colombia
  Please join the Zoom call 5 minutes before the start of the talk.
  Prof Robert Blair (Brown University)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 5 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - The architecture of language: an exploration in 3D
  Dr Alex PIllen (UCL)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Michaelmas 2021
• 16:00 - Intimate Solidarities: Mobility and Hospitality in the Women’s International Socialist Movement 1955-1970
  Dr Su Lin Lewis (Bristol)
  Global & Imperial History Research Seminar - Global Asia
• 17:00 - MEC Friday Webinar Series -Environment Discounted: Energy and Economic Diversification Plans in the Gulf
  Dr. Manal Shehabi ((The Oxford Institute for Energy Studies)), Dr. Manal Shehabi (The Oxford Institute for Energy Studies)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 8 November 2021 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Caught in the middle: Revisiting the inverse size-productivity relationship with imperfect measures of production and area
  Hailemariam Ayalew
  CSAE Research Workshops
• 16:00 - Social Protection and Multidimensional Poverty
  Dr Liyousew Borga (University of Luxembourg), Dr Conchita D’Ambrosio (University of Luxembourg)
  OPHI Seminar Series

Tuesday 9 November 2021 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Dispute Inflation
  Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
  Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars
• 14:00 - Citizenship, Publicness and the Politics of Inclusive Democracy in India
  Suryakant Waghmore (IIT-Bombay), Hugo Gorringe (University of Edinburgh)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Life at the Social and Imperial Margins: The World of Prostitution in the late Russian Empire
  Dr Siobhan Hearne (Durham University)
  Oxford Transnational and Global History Seminar

Wednesday 10 November 2021 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Search Cost, Intermediation, and Trade: Experimental Evidence from Ugandan Agricultural Markets
  If you will be joining us via Zoom, please register via the link below.
  Craig McIntosh (University of California, San Diego)
  CSAE Lunchtime Seminars
• 17:00 - Book Launch: Cultivating Democracy: Politics and Citizenship in Agrarian India
  Pre Booking essential - limited capacity
  Mukulika Banerjee (LSE)
• 17:30 - 'Empire, Asylum, and Refugee Responsibility Sharing' l The Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture 2021
  E. Tendayi Achiume
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures

Thursday 11 November 2021 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Mapping the global international system of the nineteenth century (1815-1914)
  If you are joining via Zoom, please join the call 5 minutes before the start of the talk.
  Prof Edward Keene (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 12 November 2021 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - ISCA Anthropology Departmental Seminar
  TBA
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Michaelmas 2021
• 16:00 - Russian Turkestan and the First World War
  Dr Alexander Morrison (New College, Oxford)
  Global & Imperial History Research Seminar - Global Asia
• 17:00 - Air Pollution, Toxicity, and Environmental Politics in the History of Iranian Oil Nationalisation
  Registration essential
  Dr Mattin Biglari (SOAS London)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 15 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - The Double-edged Sword of Recognition Rewards: Experimental Evidence from Pakistan
  Zahra Mansoor (Blavatnik School of Government)
  CSAE Research Workshops
• 16:00 - On Track or Not? Projecting the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index
  Dr Nicolai Suppa (OPHI, CED)
  OPHI Seminar Series

Tuesday 16 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - The Central role of Space Domain Awareness in future military conflicts
  TBA
  Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars
• 14:00 - Hidden histories of science; Ammal, Darlington, Haldane, and India, 1930-1060
  Vinita Damodaran (Sussex)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Intersectionality: making sense of power and identity
  Nikita Sud (University of Oxford), Dr Rossella Ciccia (University of Oxford), Prof Nick Owen (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Minds from the Social Sciences Division

Wednesday 17 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Historic Elites, Dynastic Politics and Development: Evidence from Pakistan
  If you will be joining us via Zoom, please register via the link below.
  Rinchan Ali Mirza (University of Kent)
  CSAE Lunchtime Seminars
• 17:30 - African Migration, Human Rights and Literature
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Fareda Banda
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 18 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - War and Welfare in the French Colonial Empire
  Please join the Zoom call 5 minutes before the start of the talk.
  Prof Melissa Lee (Princeton University)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 19 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - ISCA Departmental Seminar
  TBA
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Michaelmas 2021
• 16:00 - From Bohemia to Balintawak, Baku to Bandung, Antananarivo and Guangzhou to Điện Biên Phủ: Cosmopolitan Circuitries of Revolution in Southeast Asia
  Professor John T Sidel (London School of Economics)
  Global & Imperial History Research Seminar - Global Asia
• 17:00 - Failing Flows: The Politics of Water Management in Southern Iraq
  Registration essential
  Dr Michael Mason (Director of the Middle East Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 22 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Vatsal Khandelwal (University of Oxford)
  CSAE Research Workshops
• 16:00 - Predicting and Mapping MPI using Geospatial and Combined Disparate Data Sources
  Dr Neeti Pokhriyal (Dartmouth), Dr Damien Christophe Jacques (Louvain)
  OPHI Seminar Series

Tuesday 23 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Intimacy and Violence: The making of gendered margins and criminalized people in colonial India
  **Note special time: 12:00-13.30 GMT**
  Dr jessica Hinchy (Nanyang Technological University)
  Oxford Transnational and Global History Seminar
• 13:00 - New technology in War
  Dr Olivier Schmitt (University of Southern Denmark)
  Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars
• 14:00 - Atrocity Nation / State Amnesia : The Photographic Debris of the Sri Lankan Civil War
  Vindhya Buthpitiya (University of St Andrews)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 24 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Pay For Performance and Deforestation: Evidence from Brazil
  If you will be joining us via Zoom, please register via the link below.
  Karlygash Kuralbayeva (King’s College London)
  CSAE Lunchtime Seminars
• 17:30 - Subcontinental Defiance to the Global Refugee Regime: Global Leadership or Regional Exceptionalism
  Jay Ramasubramanyam (York University, Toronto)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 25 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Competing memories of conflict
  If joining online, please join Zoom call 5 minutes before start of the talk.
  Dr Kathrin Bachleitner (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 26 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - The past in the present: archives of longing among the Batek of Malaysia
  Dr Alice Rudge (UCL)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Michaelmas 2021
• 16:00 - The Law of Force: The Violent Heart of Indian Politics
  Professor Thomas Blom Hansen (Stanford)
  Global & Imperial History Research Seminar - Global Asia
• 17:00 - Climate and Colonialism in Modern Palestine: Historiographical Perspectives
  Dr Netta Cohen (Christ Church, Oxford University)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 29 November 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Tom Schwantje (Department of Economics)
  CSAE Research Workshops
• 16:00 - Distributional Impacts of Cash Transfers on the Multidimensional Poverty of Refugees: The ESSN programme in Turkey
  Dr Matthew Robson (University of York)
  OPHI Seminar Series

Tuesday 30 November 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Military Strategy in the 21st Century: The Challenge for NATO
  Professor Janne Matlary (University of Oslo)
  Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars
• 17:00 - Policy Impact: from recommendations to transformation
  Dr Michelle Meadows (University of Oxford), Dr Tom Hale (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University), Abigail Adams-Prassl (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Minds from the Social Sciences Division
• 17:00 - Special event in conjunction with REAG (Race Equality Action Group)
  TBA
  Oxford Transnational and Global History Seminar

Wednesday 1 December 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Does Identity Affect Labour Supply?
  If you will be joining us via Zoom, please register via the link below.
  Suanna Oh (Paris School of Economics and BRIQ)
  CSAE Lunchtime Seminars
• 17:30 - The Changing Contestations of Deportation in the UK: Race, Humanity and Belonging
  Numbers will be limited and registration will be required on arrival.
  Diletta Lauro (University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 2 December 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Digital Counterterrorism: Why Combatting Online Extremism is So Hard – And What Can Be Done About It
  Please join the Zoom call 5 minutes before the talk.
  Prof Tamar Mitts (Columbia University)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 3 December 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - The International Gender Studies Lecture 2021: Language of resistance
  Dr Giulia de Togni (University of Edinburgh)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Michaelmas 2021
• 16:00 - Empire of the Sand? Persian Gulf “Piracy”, the French threat to India, and British imperial responses
  Dr Guillemette Crouzet (Warwick)
  Global & Imperial History Research Seminar - Global Asia
• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Registration essential
  Christen Henderson (Leiden Institute for Area Studies (LIAS), Leiden)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series