Department: Middle East Centre
Talks:

Tuesday 6 May 2025

East of Empire: Egypt, India, and the World between the Wars
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 6 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Erin M.B. O’Halloran (University of Cambridge)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 13 May 2025

Sacrificial Intimacies: The Value of Life, Labor, and Desire in Queer Kurdish Worlds
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 13 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Emrah Karakuş (LSE)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: MEC Boardroom, Kirdar Building, 68 Woodstock Road
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Maryam Alemzadeh (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

Thursday 15 May 2025

After the End of the World: Another Season of War in South Lebanon
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 15 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Munira Khayyat (NYU Abu Dhabi)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: MEC Boardroom, Kirdar Building, 68 Woodstock Road
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Pascal Menoret (Magdalen College)

Friday 16 May 2025

Dame Zaha Hadid Mini Series – Celebrating 10 Years Of The Investcorp Building
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 16 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Michael Wolfson (Wolfson Design)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 20 May 2025

The World After Gaza
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 20 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Pankaj Mishra
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 23 May 2025

The Devaki Jain Lecture
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 23 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Rana Husseini (journalist and activist)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Devaki Jain (Honorary Fellow, St Anne's College)

Tuesday 27 May 2025

Slavery, Abolition and Islam: Debating Freedom in the Islamic Tradition
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 27 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Haroon Bashir (Markfield Institute of Higher Education)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: MEC Boardroom, Kirdar Building, 68 Woodstock Road
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Raihan Ismail (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 28 May 2025

NGOization of the Palestinian civil society post-Oslo: our community-based ways out
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 28 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker s: Dr Amal Nazzal (Birzeit University), Suheir Assad (Palestinian lawyer and activist)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: MEC Boardroom, Kirdar Building, 68 Woodstock Road
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 30 May 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 30 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Samer Abdelnour (University of Edinburgh Business School)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Amal Nazzal (Birzeit University)

Tuesday 3 June 2025

States and Social Hierarchies in Kuwait and the Arab Gulf Region
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 3 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Lisa Blaydes (Stanford University)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: MEC Boardroom, Kirdar Building, 68 Woodstock Road
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Maryam Alemzadeh (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 10 June 2025

Contemporary Islamic Studies seminar
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 10 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker s: Tareq Baconi (Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network), Professor Jeroen Gunning (King's College London)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Raihan Ismail (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

Thursday 12 June 2025

Dame Zaha Hadid Mini Series – Celebrating 10 Years Of The Investcorp Building
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 12 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Joseph Giovannini (Giovannini Associates)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)