Monday 17 January 2022 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 18:30 - The Rise of China: Implications for the World System
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 18 January 2022 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - On Russian strategy in the social media battlefield
  Dr David Gioe (King's College London)
  Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars
• 14:00 - Researching South Asia: Kashmir
  Mona Bhan (Syracuse University), Mohamad Junaid (MCLA), Hafsa Kanjwal (Lafayette College)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 15:00 - The Role of Culture in Scholarship: Openness, the Humanities, and the Sciences
  Dr Marcel Knöchelmann (University College London)
  Open Humanities Seminar Series

Wednesday 19 January 2022 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Immigration Controls, Captivity and Reproductive Injustice in Britain: Punishing illegalised migrant women from the Global South and separating children from their mothers
  Dr Monish Bhatia (Birkbeck University of London)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 20 January 2022 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - ‘Right-Peopling’ the State: Nationalism, Historical Legacies and Ethnic Cleansing in Europe, 1885-2020
  Carl Mueller-Crepon (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 21 January 2022 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Urban Colonialism in Global History. From Ancient Athens to Modern New York via Early Modern Istanbul
  Professor Jamie Belich (Balliol College, Oxford)
  Global & Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Book launch: Islam and the Arab Revolutions
  Usaama Al-Azami (St.Antony's College)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 24 January 2022 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Economic reforms in Angola: the Government’s perspective (Online Only)
  Vera Daves de Sousa (Minister of Finance, Angola), José de Lima Massano (Governor, National Bank of Angola), Prof Ricardo Soares de Oliveira (Department of Politics and International Relations)
  Oxford Martin School Public Lectures

Tuesday 25 January 2022 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Illusions of Autonomy: Why Europe Cannot Provide for Its Security If the United States Pulls Back
  Dr Hugo Meijer (Sciences Po)
  Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars
• 14:00 - Researching South Asia: Bureaucracy
  Yamini Aiyar (CPR, Delhi), Maira Hayat (Notre Dame), Zehra Hashmi (Brown University), Prof Akshay Mangla (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 26 January 2022 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Social Cohesion as a Humanitarian Objective?
  Cory Rodgers (Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures
• 18:00 - Postcolonial Racisms: National sovereignty and the making of new global apartheids
  Professor Nandita Sharma (University of Hawai’i at Manoa)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 27 January 2022 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - The Legalization of Global Economic Governance: Contracting or Multilateralism?
  Please join the Zoom call 5 minutes before the talk.
  Karen Alter (Northwestern University), Timothy Meyer
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 28 January 2022 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - The Problem of Legal Pluralism in the Eighteenth-Century British Empire
  Dr Hunter Harris (Nuffield College, Oxford)
  Global & Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The Fate of Colonial Elites in Post-Colonial Regimes: Evidence from the 1952 Egyptian Revolution
  TBA
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 31 January 2022 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Qualitative Analysis at Scale: An Application to Aspirations in Cox's Bazaar, Bangladesh TBC
  This seminar will be online only. Please sign up for the event with your institution email address.
  Julian Ashwin (University of Oxford)
  CSAE Research Workshops

Tuesday 1 February 2022 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Copenhagen 1807: A British War of prevention and pre-emption?
  Professor Brendan Simms (University of Cambridge)
  Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars
• 14:00 - Researching South Asia: Animals
  Naisargi Dave (Toronto), Radhika Govindrajan (Washington), Muhammad Kavesh (Toronto), Dolly Kikon (Melbourne), Ambika Aiyadurai (IIT, Gandhinagar)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 2 February 2022 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Journeys towards Reconciliation: the JRS Experience
  Danielle Velle (JRS International), Diana Rueda (JRS International)
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures
• 17:00 - Machine-Readable Refugees: Navigating biometric systems in Kenya
  Dr Keren Weitzberg (UCL)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 3 February 2022 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - NATO After 9/11: Counterterrorism, Organized Violence and the Transnational Remaking of the Euro-Atlantic Security
  Julien Pomarede (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 4 February 2022 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - The most illuminating thing I have ever seen’: Photography, Violence and the Bud Dajo Massacre of 1906
  Dr Kim Wagner (QMUL)
  Global & Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The Career and Communities of Zaynab Fawwaz: Feminist Thinking in Fin-de-siècle Egypt
  Dr Marilyn Booth (Magdalen College, Oxford)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 7 February 2022 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - The Effect of Internet Upgrades on Domestic Market Integration in Kenya TBC
  This seminar will be online only. Please sign up for the event with your institution email address.
  Verena Wiedemann (Department of Economics)
  CSAE Research Workshops

Tuesday 8 February 2022 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate
  Professor Mary Sarotte (Johns Hopkins)
  Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars
• 14:00 - Researching South Asia: Climate Change
  Various Speakers
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 9 February 2022 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - “They treat us as if we are of no importance”: Experiences of displacement, (in)justice and reconciliation across disaster, epidemic and war in Sierra Leone
  Dr Mohamed Sesay (York University, Canada), Professor Megan Bradley (McGill University)
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures
• 17:00 - Security Imperialism
  Professor Catherine Besteman (Colby College)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 10 February 2022 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Virtual Territories
  Please join the Zoom call 5 minutes before the talk.
  TBA
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 11 February 2022 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - International Law and War in the White British Empire: Ireland and South Africa 1899-1921
  Dr Lia Brazil (Nuffield College, Oxford)
  Global & Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Uncoupling Language and Religion: An Exploration into the Margins of Turkish Literature
  Laurent Mignon (St. Antony's College)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 14 February 2022 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  This seminar will be online only. Please sign up for the event with your institution email address.
  TBA
  CSAE Research Workshops

Tuesday 15 February 2022 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Unconventional: Lessons in Modern Combat from the Russo-Ukrainian War
  Nolan Peterson (Coffee or Die Magazine)
  Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars

Wednesday 16 February 2022 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Gender Norms, Violence and Adolescent Girls' Trajectories: Evidence from a Field Experiment in India
  This seminar will be online only. Please sign up for the event with your institution email address.
  Sonya Krutikova (Institute for Fiscal Studies)
  CSAE Lunchtime Seminars
• 15:00 - Learning in Segregation as Syrian Refugee Children in Jordan
  Dr Hiba Salem (University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures
• 17:00 - Borders, Militarism and Inequality in Global Capitalism: Reflections on strategies for freedom
  Dr Hannah Cross (University of Westminster)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 17 February 2022 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Politics of Inevitability
  Yuna Han (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 18 February 2022 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - A Zambian not at Bandung and the uses of global biography
  Dr Ismay Milford (Edinburgh)
  Global & Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - All insurgency is local: the micro-politics of militant Islamism in 1980s Lebanon and beyond
  Raphael Lefevre (St.Antony's College)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 21 February 2022 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Productivity and Allocation of Labour in a Countrywide Healthcare System TBC
  This seminar will be online only. Please sign up for the event with your institution email address.
  Binta Zahra Diop (University of Oxford)
  CSAE Research Workshops

Tuesday 22 February 2022 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - People’s Liberation Army Modernisation: from drivers of change to strengths and weaknesses
  Meia Nouwens (The International Institute for Strategic Studies)
  Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars

Wednesday 23 February 2022 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Title TBC
  This seminar will be online only. Please sign up for the event with your institution email address.
  Kate Orkin (University of Oxford)
  CSAE Lunchtime Seminars
• 15:00 - Exposure to Violence and the Prospects for Reconciliation: Evidence from Syria and Iraq
  Professor Kristin Fabbe (Harvard Business School)
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures
• 17:00 - The Constitutive Exterior: EU border externalisation and the social dynamics of the Senegal River Valley
  Dr Hassan Ould Moctar (SOAS University of London)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 24 February 2022 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Institutional Racism in International Relations
  Please join the Zoom call 5 minutes before the talk.
  Phillip Lipscy (University of Toronto), Jiajia Zhou
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 25 February 2022 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Modes of Historical Analysis: Digital Approaches to Global and Imperial History
  Professor James Smithies (KCL)
  Global & Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The Global Merchants: The Enterprise and Extravagance of the Sassoon Dynasty
  Joseph Sassoon (Georgetown Faculty)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Indian farmers' struggle and climate change: Defending small farming against agro-business takeover
  This is a hybrid event. To attend virtually, please register via the link below. The in-person event is open to members of the University only; numbers are limited and admission will be on a first come, first served basis.
  Professor Pritam Singh (Oxford Brookes University)
  Climate Change and the Challenges of Development

Monday 28 February 2022 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Moving Opportunity. Road Building and Education in West Africa TBC
  This seminar will be online only. Please sign up for the event with your institution email address.
  Luke Milsom (University of Oxford)
  CSAE Research Workshops

Tuesday 1 March 2022 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - The Indo-Pacific Tilt, Geopolitics and International Law - Issues and Challenges
  Captain Ian Park (Royal Navy)
  Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars

Wednesday 2 March 2022 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - AI-tocracy
  This seminar will be online only. Please sign up for the event with your institution email address.
  Noam Yuchtman (London School of Economics)
  CSAE Lunchtime Seminars
• 15:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Katrien Hertog (IAHV), Professor Elias Lopez (Comillas Pontifical University)
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures
• 17:00 - Governing the Displaced in Global Capitalism: Refugee survival from the camp to the city
  Dr Ali Bhagat (Saint Mary's University, Canada)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 3 March 2022 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Global and Imperial History graduate student research presentations
  Various Speakers
  Global & Imperial History Research Seminar
• 15:00 - Making an Underworld: Internationalism and Moral Panics
  Jeanne Morefield (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 4 March 2022 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Global and Imperial History graduate student research presentations
  Various Speakers
  Global & Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Panel Discussion – The Future of Syria
  Ibrahim Olabi (University of Manchester), Waad Alkhatib
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 7 March 2022 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  This seminar will be online only. Please sign up for the event with your institution email address.
  TBA
  CSAE Research Workshops

Tuesday 8 March 2022 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - ‘War’ vs ‘Conflict’: changing Russian perceptions between the military and the civilian security establishment
  Mark Galeotti (UCL)
  Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars

Wednesday 9 March 2022 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Title TBC
  This seminar will be online only. Please sign up for the event with your institution email address.
  Catherine Bros-Bobin (Universite Gustave Eiffel)
  CSAE Lunchtime Seminars
• 17:00 - Carceral Geographies, Racial Violence: The contested Mediterranean borderzone
  Dr Maurice Stierl (University of Sheffield)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 10 March 2022 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Can a leopard change its spots? Implicit theories and signaling in international politics
  Please join the Zoom call 5 minutes before the talk.
  Paola Solimena (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 11 March 2022 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Global and Imperial History graduate student research presentations
  Various Speakers
  Global & Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Yemen’s Enduring Crisis
  Helen Lackner (SOAS University of London)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series