Tuesday 21 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Libya and Challenges for International conflict resolution
  Christopher Thornton (Oxford)
  Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars
• 14:00 - Capitalism in the Himalaya
  Professor Barbara Harriss-White ((Emeritus Professor of Development Studies, Oxford))
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 22 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - The Economics of Marine Conservation
  Jonathan Colmer (University of Virginia)
  CSAE Lunchtime Seminars
• 17:00 - Kurdish women’s knowledge of the state: from the guerrilla to the refugee camp
  Dr Dilar Dirik (University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 19:00 - Shaping narratives around climate change and development | A photo-conversation
  Dr Sarah de Wit (Institute for Science, Innovation and Society), Alice Chautard (University of Oxford), Catherine Gresham (University of Oxford)

Thursday 23 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Electoral Practices in Post-Independent Chile, 1820-1830
  Joint Seminar with the Adolfo Ibáñez University
  Juan Luis Ossa (Adolfo Ibáñez University, Chile)
  Latin American History Seminar
• 18:00 - 'Women's Health in Protracted Refugee Setting; the Good, the Bad and the Ugly' and 'FIGO projects and Global Women’s Health'
  Various Speakers
  Oxford University Global Surgery Group Seminars

Friday 24 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Too young to die: Deprivation measures combining poverty and premature mortality
  Dr Benoît Decerf (University of Namur)
  OPHI Seminar Series
• 15:15 - Towards an epistemology of international development
  David Ludwig (Wageningen University & Research)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2020

Monday 27 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa
  Ambassador Prof Dr Claas Knoop
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series
• 17:00 - Moving Bodies: Post-War Dance, Women, and Protest in Japan
  Alice Baldock (Oxford)
  International History of East Asia Seminar
• 17:00 - How the National Ballet of China’s 2017 Tour of Australia Forged an Interracial Far Right Alliance
  Ellan Lincoln-Hyde (SOAS)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Tuesday 28 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Externalization and the erosion of refugee protection: an initial enquiry
  Dr Jeff Crisp (Refugee Studies Centre)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series
• 13:00 - The Russian Understanding of War: Blurring the Lines between War and Peace
  Dr Oscar Jonsson (Stockholm Free World Forum)
  Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars
• 14:00 - Forests, Famines and livlihoods: towards an environmental history of Eastern India
  CANCELLED
  Vinita Damodaran (Sussex)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 29 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Title TBC
  Peter Montiel (Williams College)
  CSAE Lunchtime Seminars
• 17:00 - Access to SGBV protection services for Syrian and Palestinian refugees in Lebanon
  Menaal Munshey (University of Cambridge)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Identidad Nacional Y paisajes Peruanos (1955) de José de la Riva Aguero
  Joint seminar with the Universidad del Pacífico on Wednesday Week 2
  Jorge Wiesse (Universidad del Pacífico, Perú)
  Latin American History Seminar

Friday 31 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - Limitations on the formation of culture in wild, desert-living baboon
  Alecia Carter (University College London)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2020

Tuesday 4 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - China's Good War: How Memory of the World War II past is shaping a nationalist future
  Professor Rana Mitter
  Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars
• 14:00 - Arms, Arts and Agriculture: Indo-Mexican Intellectual Connections in the Early Twentieth Century
  Jesus Chairez-Garcia (Manchester)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 5 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - N/A
  No CSAE Seminar today
  TBA
  CSAE Lunchtime Seminars
• 15:00 - Degradation by design: corrosive control in the lives of women seeking asylum in bordered Britain
  Dr Victoria Canning (University of Bristol)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 6 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The Theatrics of Reform: Politics and Cultural Sphere in Buenos Aires, 1816-1837
  Klaus Gallo (Universidad di Tella, Argentina)
  Latin American History Seminar

Friday 7 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Building a composite Multidimensional Poverty Index using Delphi dimensions, indicators and weights
  Putu Natih (Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford)
  OPHI Seminar Series
• 15:15 - How do mammals respond to changing environments? Perspectives from movement ecology
  TBA
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2020

Monday 10 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Across, Between and Beyond Nation States: Overseas Chinese Private Remittance Networks, 1850s-1930s
  Ania Gricuk (LSE)
  International History of East Asia Seminar
• 17:00 - Another War: China’s Struggle for Financial Aid during WWII
  Lin Ma (Oxford)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Tuesday 11 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Trojan Horse, Copycat, or Scapegoat? Unpacking the Refugees-Terrorism Nexus
  Dr Sara Polo (University of Essex)
  Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars
• 14:00 - 'For a better future': Education and unstable future-making in Nepal
  Uma Pradhan
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 12 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Some Long-Run Economic Consequences of Keeping Refugees Out
  Antonio Ciccone (ICREA-UPF and Barcelona GSE)
  CSAE Lunchtime Seminars
• 17:00 - Colonial mobilities and global inequality: why European settlers ought not to be regarded as migrants
  Professor Gurminder K Bhambra (University of Sussex)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 13 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The Biography of President Virgilio Barco: Reflections on the Study of Colombian Politics
  Malcolm Deas (Oxford)
  Latin American History Seminar

Friday 14 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - The quality of employment (QoE) in nine Latin American countries: A multidimensional perspective
  Professor Kirsten Sehnbruch (London School of Economics), Dr Mauricio Apablaza (Universidad del Desarrollo)
  OPHI Seminar Series
• 15:15 - Pluralising science in the Anthropocene: the role of ethnobiology
  Laura Rival (University of Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2020

Tuesday 18 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Bargains of Inclusion: Why Some States Give Refugees the Right to Work
  Prof Alexander Betts (University of Oxford), Dr Olivier Sterck (University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series
• 13:00 - Uncertainty and Mutual Recognition in Colombia - the Study of the Nature of Armed Non-State Actors in the Colombian Conflict
  Dr Jan Boesten (CCW, Oxford)
  Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars
• 14:00 - A millenarian sultan and a teacher to the world: New directions in early modern Indo-Muslim kingship
  Roy Fischel (SOAS, University of London)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 19 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - The Effects of Working While in School: Evidence from Uruguayan Lotteries
  Diego Ubfal (Bocconi University)
  CSAE Lunchtime Seminars
• 17:00 - Forced migration in the United Kingdom: women’s journeys to escape domestic violence
  Dr Janet Bowstead (Royal Holloway, University of London)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:30 - Life and Thought of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit: Prof Manu Bhagavan
  Prof Manu Bhagavan (City University of New York)
  The Global Thinkers Project, Oxford: Reviving silenced internationalist voices in International Relations

Thursday 20 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Mexican Banks and Foreign Finance: From Internationalization to Financial Crisis, 1973-82
  Sebastián Alvarez (Oxford)
  Latin American History Seminar

Friday 21 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Unidimensional underpinnings of multidimensional counting measures
  Professor James Foster (Georges Washington University)
  OPHI Seminar Series
• 15:15 - Climate change as a driver of hominin evolution
  René Bobe (Oxford & Gorongosa National Park)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2020

Monday 24 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - A Chinese in the Dark: Infrastructure and Illumination in German Qingdao, 1898-1914
  Mimi Cheng (University of Rochester)
  International History of East Asia Seminar
• 17:00 - Write Well, Work Well: Script Reform, Efficiency Movements, and Nation Identity in Japan and Germany, 1919-1945
  Toshiki Kawashima (University of Pennsylvania)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Tuesday 25 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Multilocality and Refugee-Nomad Interchange in Northern Mauritania
  Matthew Porges (RSC Student Visitor)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series
• 13:00 - Conflict and Wellbeing Deprivation in sub-Saharan Africa
  Dr Ricardo Nogales (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative), Dr Christian Oldiges (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative)
  Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars
• 14:00 - Highways to the end of the World: Roads, Road-Builders and the Archiecture of Power in South Asia
  Ed Simpson (SOAS< University of London)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 26 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Climate Change and Property Rights:Evidence from Uganda TBC
  Juan Pablo Rud (Royal Holloway, University of London)
  CSAE Lunchtime Seminars
• 17:00 - An intersectional approach to policy and decision making on SOGI asylum claims in Europe
  Professor Nuno Ferreira (University of Sussex)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 27 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The Latin American Boom: A Publishing History
  Consuelo Saizar (Cambridge University)
  Latin American History Seminar
• 17:30 - Dr Merze Tate on IR: Prof Cecelia Lynch
  Prof Cecelia Lynch (University of California, Irvine)
  The Global Thinkers Project, Oxford: Reviving silenced internationalist voices in International Relations

Friday 28 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - On synthetic income panels
  Dr Hector Moreno (OPHI)
  OPHI Seminar Series
• 15:15 - Current and future approaches to improving human-predator relations
  Simon Pooley (Birbeck, University of London)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2020

Tuesday 3 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Rohingya Refugee Crisis: Examination of the Causes of Persecution
  Mohammad Didarul Islam (University of Leeds), Ayesha Siddikha (University of Dhaka)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series
• 13:00 - New Insights into the Psychology of Individuals and Large Groups in Changing Conflicts
  Lord John Alderdice (University of Oxford)
  Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars

Wednesday 4 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Islam and the State: Religious Education in the Age of Mass Schooling
  Benjamin Marx (Sciences Po)
  CSAE Lunchtime Seminars
• 17:00 - Bordering
  Dr Georgie Wemyss (University of East London), Professor Nira Yuval-Davis (University of East London)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 5 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Historia del libro en América Latina (siglo XVI-al XIX): Panorama de una disciplina en evolución
  Joint Seminar with the Iberian History Seminar
  Marina Garone (UNAM, Mexico)
  Latin American History Seminar

Friday 6 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Identifying inequality benchmark incomes
  Dr Laurence Roope (Health Economics Research Centre, University of Oxford)
  OPHI Seminar Series
• 15:15 - Slavery and its rejection among foragers on the Pacific coast of North America (or 'culture areas' as structures of resistance)
  David Wengrew (University College London)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2020

Monday 9 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Visions of Profit: American Commerce on the Yangtze River during the Taiping and American Civil Wars
  Thomas Larkin (University of Bristol)
  International History of East Asia Seminar
• 17:00 - The Cadiz Affair, Zhenjiang (1874-1878): Jurisdictional Competition and Foreign Influence in Late Qing China
  Georges Moraitis (Queen's University, Belfast)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Tuesday 10 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Is forecasting political violence feasible? Experiences from the ViEWS project.
  Håvard Hegre (Uppsala University)
  Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars
• 17:30 - The IR thought of Claudia Jones: Prof Patricia Owens
  Prof Patricia Owens (University of Sussex)
  The Global Thinkers Project, Oxford: Reviving silenced internationalist voices in International Relations

Wednesday 11 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Financial Constraints and Propagation of Shocks in Production Networks
  Beata Javorcik (University of Oxford and CEPR)
  CSAE Lunchtime Seminars

Thursday 12 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Puerto Rican Nationalism, Latin American Solidarity, and the 1930s: How Good Was the Good Neighbor Policy?
  Margaret Power (Illinois Institute of Technology)
  Latin American History Seminar

Friday 13 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Robust non-parametric estimation of inequality measures with contaminated data
  Dr Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay (Queen Mary University of London)
  OPHI Seminar Series
• 15:15 - Plants crossing borders: between local communities and international law: how ontologies help plant data to cross borders
  Sabrina Leonelli (University of Exeter)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Hilary 2020

Tuesday 17 March 2020 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Trucks
  Treb Allen (Dartmouth)
  CSAE Lunchtime Seminars

Wednesday 18 March 2020 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Affirmative Action and Development: Evidence from India’s Scheduled Areas
  Saad Gulzar (Stanford University)
  CSAE Lunchtime Seminars

Monday 30 March 2020 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

• 08:00 - Oxford Spring School in Advanced Research Methods
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 29 April 2020 (15th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Title TBC
  Adam Szeidl (Central European University)
  CSAE Lunchtime Seminars

Wednesday 6 May 2020 (16th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Title TBC
  Zaki Wahhaj (University of Kent)
  CSAE Lunchtime Seminars

Wednesday 13 May 2020 (17th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Title TBC
  Mica Sviatschi (Princeton University)
  CSAE Lunchtime Seminars

Wednesday 20 May 2020 (18th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Title TBC
  Catia Batista (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
  CSAE Lunchtime Seminars

Wednesday 27 May 2020 (19th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Title TBC
  Gaia Narciso (Trinity College Dublin)
  CSAE Lunchtime Seminars

Wednesday 3 June 2020 (20th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Title TBC
  Martina Kirchberger (Trinity College Dublin)
  CSAE Lunchtime Seminars

Wednesday 10 June 2020 (21st Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Title TBC
  James Fenske (University of Warwick)
  CSAE Lunchtime Seminars

Wednesday 17 June 2020 (22nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Title TBC
  Kevin Donovan (Yale School of Management)
  CSAE Lunchtime Seminars