Thursday 30 January 2025

• 15:30 - The RDA: the Making of a Transnational Civil Rights Movement in Black French Africa
  Lyn Kouadio (University College, Oxford)
  African Studies Centre Research Seminars
• 16:00 - LAC History Seminar: The Age of Revolutions and the Generations Who Made It: A Hemispheric Perspective
  Nathan Peri-Rosental (University of Southern California)
• 17:00 - The Age of Revolutions and the Generations Who Made It: A Hemispheric Perspective (Comparative American History Seminar organised jointly with the Rothermere American Institute)
  Nathan Perl-Rosenthal (University of Southern California)
  Latin American History Seminar

Friday 31 January 2025

• 17:00 - Meritocracy’s Children: Coming of Age and Senses of Injustice in Seoul and Tokyo
  Dr Yuki Asahina (University of Manchester)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Tuesday 4 February 2025

• 17:00 - From Victimhood to Love: The political as a feminist question In Colombia
  Dr Roxani Krystalli (University of St Andrews), Prof Leigh Payne (University of Oxford), Dr. Samuel Ritholtz (University of Oxford)

Thursday 6 February 2025

• 15:30 - Researching Reconciliation and Repression in 1960s Kenya
  Niels Boender
  African Studies Centre Research Seminars
• 17:00 - Discourses on Community in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
  Gabriel Entin (Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina), Jorge Myers (Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina), Inés de Torres (Universidad de la República, Uruguay), André Jockyman Roithmann (University of Edinburgh, UK)
  Latin American History Seminar

Friday 7 February 2025

• 17:00 - Balancing Commerce and Diplomacy: Japan's Strategy for Economic Security
  Professor Christina Davis (Harvard University)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Tuesday 11 February 2025

• 17:00 - Navigating Narratives: Tsurayuki's Tosa Diary as History and Fiction
  Professor Gustav Heldt (University of Virginia), Professor Sho Konishi (University of Oxford - History/OSGA), Dr Pan Tomé Valencia (University of Oxford - AMES)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Wednesday 12 February 2025

• 17:00 - ASEAN Institute Seminar Series: Community-Minded Communists: A Field Experiment on Party Member Propensity for Community Activism in Among Rural Vietnamese Women
  Dr Quynh Nguyen (University of Bern)
  ASEAN Institute Seminar Series 2025

Thursday 13 February 2025

• 15:30 - “God Can’t Bless You If You Work for Someone Else”: Informality and Entrepreneurship in Urban Zambia
  Kristina Pikovskaia (University of Edinburgh)
  African Studies Centre Research Seminars
• 17:00 - Taiwan and its Southeast Asia Challenge
  Professor Alex Tan (University of Canterbury)
  Oxford Taiwan Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - A Peruvian History of the Old World: José Carlos Mariátegui and Europe
  Paulo Drinot (UCL)
  Latin American History Seminar

Friday 14 February 2025

• 17:00 - Searching for Zan: A More-Than-Human Ethnography of Extinction, Militarism, and Protest in Okinawa
  Dr Marius Palz (Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Thursday 20 February 2025

• 15:30 - Extractives-led Development and state-building in Botswana? A Historical Political Economy of Post-colonial Botswana’s Engagement with De Beers and Regional Geopolitical Insecurity
  Jorich Loubser
  African Studies Centre Research Seminars
• 17:00 - Performing the Revolution. Politics and Theatre in Post-independent Argentina. 1810-1837
  Klaus Gallo (Universidad di Tella, Argentina)
  Latin American History Seminar

Friday 21 February 2025

• 17:00 - Mori Nao Divorces Her Samurai Husband and His Family Puts Him in a Cage
  Professor Luke Roberts (UC Santa Barbara)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Wednesday 26 February 2025

• 17:00 - ASEAN Institute Seminar Series: Transnational Impact of Chinese Propaganda on Intergroup Relations in Malaysia
  Dr Jeremy Siow (University of Oxford)
  ASEAN Institute Seminar Series 2025

Thursday 27 February 2025

• 15:30 - Doing research on, in and around state buildings in Africa: Reflections from Lesotho, Malawi and Zimbabwe
  Innocent Batsani-Ncube (University of London)
  African Studies Centre Research Seminars
• 17:00 - The US-China Conflict and a Divided Southeast Asia: Implications for Taiwan
  Professor Thitinan Pongsudhirak (Chulalongkorn University)
  Oxford Taiwan Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Histories of Solitude and Perplexity: Colombia, 19th to 21st Centuries
  Lina Britto (Northwestern University, USA), Ricardo López Pedrero (Western Washington University, USA), Ana María Otero-Claves (University of York, UK)
  Latin American History Seminar

Friday 28 February 2025

• 08:30 - Symposium: Healthcare delivery in crisis? The Potential for Mutual Learning between Japan and the UK
  Various Speakers
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Thursday 6 March 2025

• 15:30 - 'The Overthrow of Robert Mugabe: Gender, Coups, and Diplomats’ (Book Launch)
  Dr Miles Tendi (University of Oxford)
  African Studies Centre Research Seminars
• 17:00 - A Third Path: Corporatism in Brazil and Portugal
  Melissa Texeira (University of Pennsylvania)
  Latin American History Seminar

Friday 7 March 2025

• 17:00 - Startup Capitalism: New Approaches to Innovation Strategies in East Asia
  Dr Robyn Klingler-Vidra (Associate Dean (Global Engagement) and Associate Professor in Entrepreneurship and Sustainability at King's Business School)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Wednesday 12 March 2025

• 17:00 - ASEAN Institute Seminar Series: Buddhism, nationalism, and authoritarianism: Findings from a 2023 post-election survey of Thai voters
  Professor Tomas Larsson (University of Cambridge)
  ASEAN Institute Seminar Series 2025

Thursday 13 March 2025

• 15:30 - Forging Global Black Identities: Pan-African Consciousness and the Transnational Lives of Second-Generation Africans in the UK
  Mikal Woldu (SOAS)
  African Studies Centre Research Seminars
• 17:00 - Longing for Revolution: Women's Militancia and Post-Militancia in the Peruvian Revolutionary Left - 1960-2000
  Mercedes Crisóstomo (UCL)
  Latin American History Seminar

Friday 14 March 2025

• 17:00 - Japan's Free and Open Indo-Pacific: From Vision to Reality
  Dr Eva Pejsova (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies