Tuesday 29 April 2025

• 14:00 - A Kerala Pilgrimage Approaches Its Centenary - why it matters for South India and the wider world
  Alex Gath (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Violence and the Politics of Form in Early Modern Japanese Fiction
  Professor David C. Atherton (Harvard University), Jennifer Guest (University of Oxford), Professor Sho Konishi (University of Oxford - History/OSGA)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Wednesday 30 April 2025

• 14:00 - The Transformative Power of Multidimensional Poverty Statistics for Social Development
  TBA
• 17:00 - 2025 George Rousseau Lecture: On the logic of autocracy and the plasticity of history: the case of Frederick William I, King of Prussia
  Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger ((Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin/Institute of Advanced Study))
  George Rousseau Lectures
• 17:00 - The Economy of the Ottoman Empire in Comparative Perspective, 1500-1800
  Professor Sevket Pamuk (Bogazici University)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 1 May 2025

• 17:00 - Exploitation in the Bedchamber: Maidservants in Late Ming Erotic Novels
  Dr Cheuk Yee Wai (University of Oxford)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:15 - World Literature from the Viewpoint of Atrocity
  Bruce Robbins (Columbia)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Friday 2 May 2025

• 14:00 - Early Career Workshop for Global Early Modern Intellectual History
  Tania Bride (Exeter College, Oxford), Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford), Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet (St Catherine's College, Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Global History events
• 17:00 - Bringing Dark Heritage to Light: Monuments to Wartime Foreign Laborers in Japan
  Professor Andrew Gordon (Harvard University)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Monday 5 May 2025

• 17:00 - Recovering Sayagyi U Ba Khin: Globalizing Vipassanā from a Post-nuclear Rangoon
  Daniel M. Stuart (University of Hamburg)
  Glorisun Lecture Series in Buddhist Studies

Tuesday 6 May 2025

• 10:00 - Open Scholarship: Fundamentals of open access
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), David Phillips (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 14:00 - The Modern Life of Sanskrit: An Encounter with Psychoanalysis
  Ananya Vajpeyi (Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - East of Empire: Egypt, India, and the World between the Wars
  Dr Erin M.B. O’Halloran (University of Cambridge)
  Book Talks

Wednesday 7 May 2025

• 12:00 - The Unfinished Modernisation: Women’s Cinema in China’s Reform Era
  Associate Professor Lidan Hu (Sichuan University)
  China Centre talks
• 17:00 - Beyond Castes and Regions: The Socio-Economic Decline of Muslims in Contemporary India
  Professor Christophe Jaffrelot (Kings College, London)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Localization in the Rohingya refugee response
  Dr Miriam Bradley (University of Manchester)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 8 May 2025

• 14:30 - Open Scholarship: Foundations of copyright for teaching
  Chris Morrison (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 14:30 - Changing Global Politics and its impact on Singapore and ASEAN
  Mr Ng Teck Hean (Singapore's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series
• 17:00 - China Studies Seminar
  Dr Iza Ding (Northwestern University)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:15 - Journal editing in the changing marketplace: Postcolonial writing or world literature?
  Janet Wilson (Northampton and editor-in-chief, Journal of Postcolonial Literature)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Tuesday 13 May 2025

• 10:00 - Open Scholarship: Logistics of open scholarship
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 14:00 - Afghanistan and the Concept of Asia: Intellectual Geographies in an Age of Reform
  Marya Hannun (University of Exeter)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Sacrificial Intimacies: The Value of Life, Labor, and Desire in Queer Kurdish Worlds
  Dr Emrah Karakuş (LSE)
  Women’s Rights Research Seminars

Wednesday 14 May 2025

• 17:00 - Rich World, Poor World: The Struggle to Escape Poverty in Muslim Societies
  Mr Ali Allawi (Former Minister of Finance, Defense, and Trade of Iraq)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Governing Migration and Mobility: Military-Humanitarianism at Brazil’s Northern Frontier
  Dr Bronte Alexander (Collegium Helveticum, Zurich)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 15 May 2025

• 10:00 - Tanaka Symposium in Japanese Studies 2025: Tohoku and Transnational Solidarities
  Various Speakers
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
• 17:00 - After the End of the World: Another Season of War in South Lebanon
  Professor Munira Khayyat (NYU Abu Dhabi)
• 17:00 - Public Service, Party-State: Teaching, Gender, Power, and Memory in China, 1940s-1980s
  Dr Joseph Lawson (Newcastle University)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 16 May 2025

• 17:00 - Dame Zaha Hadid Mini Series – Celebrating 10 Years Of The Investcorp Building
  Philip Michael Wolfson (Wolfson Design)
  Friday Seminars

Monday 19 May 2025

• 17:00 - Sanskrit Buddhist Chant and Song: Medieval Traditions in Modern Transmission
  Stephen Ithel Duran (University of Oxford)
  Glorisun Lecture Series in Buddhist Studies

Tuesday 20 May 2025

• 14:00 - Labour as Method: Studying Technologies of the South
  Hemangini Gupta (University of Edinburgh)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 15:00 - Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant
  Curtis Chin (Writer, Producer, Director)
  China Centre talks
• 17:00 - The World After Gaza
  Pankaj Mishra
  Book Talks
• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky (University of California, Santa Barbara)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Wednesday 21 May 2025

• 17:00 - Building State Capacity in Fragile States
  Dr Michael Callen (London School of Economics)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 22 May 2025

• 17:15 - Emergency as Genre
  Ayelet Ben-Yishai (Haifa)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Friday 23 May 2025

• 17:00 - The Devaki Jain Lecture
  Rana Husseini (author, journalist and activist)
  Friday Seminars

Monday 26 May 2025

• 12:00 - Institutional Genes: The Origins of China’s Institutions and Totalitarianism
  Dr Chenggang Xu (Stanford University)
  China Centre talks

Tuesday 27 May 2025

• 14:00 - Designing with the Rohingya: Trauma, Resilience, Memory
  Professor Esther da Costa Meyer (Princeton University and Yale University)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Slavery, Abolition and Islam: Debating Freedom in the Islamic Tradition
  Dr Haroon Bashir (Markfield Institute of Higher Education)
  Book Talks

Wednesday 28 May 2025

• 10:00 - Open Scholarship: Introduction to Persistent Identifiers
  Neil Jefferies (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 14:30 - Open Scholarship: Introduction to Open Science Framework at Oxford
  Neil Jefferies (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - NGOization of the Palestinian civil society post-Oslo: our community-based ways out
  This will be a hybrid event with attendance in person and online. To attend online, please complete the booking form to receive the Zoom link.
  Dr Amal Nazzal (Birzeit University), Soheir Asaad (Palestinian lawyer and activist)
• 17:00 - The Origins of Perso-Islamic Courts and Empires in India
  Professor Blain Auer (University of Lausanne)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 29 May 2025

• 17:00 - A Confucian Academy in 21st Century Hebei: Rethinking 'truth' in Chinese Religion
  Dr Gareth Breen (LSE)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 30 May 2025

• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Samer Abdelnour (University of Edinburgh Business School)
  Friday Seminars

Monday 2 June 2025

• 17:00 - Sarvamedha, Pañcavārṣika, and Nirargaḍamedha: Ritual Transmission from India to China
  Zhen Liu (Dali University and Harvard-Yenching Institute)
  Glorisun Lecture Series in Buddhist Studies

Tuesday 3 June 2025

• 14:00 - Ecologies of Caste and Waste: Dependence and Value Making at the Bhalswa Landfill in Delhi
  Aparna Agarwal (University of Lausanne)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 15:00 - Open Scholarship: Your thesis, copyright & ORA
  David Watson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Thomas Mitchell (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - States and Social Hierarchies in Kuwait and the Arab Gulf Region
  Professor Lisa Blaydes (Stanford University)
  Women’s Rights Research Seminars

Wednesday 4 June 2025

• 14:30 - Open scholarship: Playing in the open: Getting familiar with creative commons licences
  Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - Iran’s Crisis of Governance
  Professor Anoush Ehteshami (Durham University)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Ruling Emancipated Slaves and Indigenous Subjects: The Divergent Legacies of Forced Settlement and Colonial Occupation in the Global South
  Professor Olukunle Owolabi (Villanova University)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Monday 9 June 2025

• 15:00 - Open Scholarship: REF open access policy briefing
  Sarah Humphries (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Tuesday 10 June 2025

• 14:00 - Rangoonwala Fellows: Development and Displacement in Pakistan
  Various Speakers
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Contemporary Islamic Studies seminar
  Tareq Baconi (Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network), Professor Jeroen Gunning (King's College London)

Wednesday 11 June 2025

• 17:00 - Al-Ghazālī and the Ideal of Godlikeness
  Dr Sophia Vasalou (University of Birmingham)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture 2025 | Living Archives: Palestinian Displacement in Lebanon
  Professor Diana Allen (McGill University)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 12 June 2025

• 14:30 - Open Scholarship: Fundamentals of open access
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Beth Saward (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - Dame Zaha Hadid Mini Series – Celebrating 10 Years Of The Investcorp Building
  Joseph Giovannini (Giovannini Associates)
• 17:00 - ‘Non-People’ in the People’s Republic: Class Enemies in Maoist China
  Dr Mark Czellér (University of London)
  China Studies Seminar series

Wednesday 18 June 2025

• 17:00 - A Bridge to the Sky: From ibn Firnas (d. 887) and the Cordoban Court to Imagining Baghdad in Assassin’s Creed Mirage
  Dr Glaire Anderson (University of Edinburgh)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 19 June 2025

• 12:30 - Rewriting the Land: Culture, the Early Marx, and the Brazilian Landless Workers’ Movement (MST)
  Daniel Hartley (Durham)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Wednesday 25 June 2025

• 14:00 - Open Scholarship: Copyright the card game
  Chris Morrison (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Tuesday 1 July 2025

• 10:00 - Open Scholarship: Logistics of open scholarship
  Sarah Humphries (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Monday 7 July 2025

• 14:00 - Open Scholarship: Forum of open scholarship
  Various Speakers
  Open Scholarship

Thursday 24 July 2025

• 14:30 - Open Scholarship: Fundamentals of open access
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), David Phillips (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship