Tuesday 14 January 2025

• 10:00 - Open scholarship: Fundamentals of open access
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship

Thursday 16 January 2025

• 12:00 - Open Scholarship: Navigating open access monographs: OAPEN and the OA books toolkit for researchers
  David Watson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Silke Davison (OAPEN Foundation)
  Open Scholarship

Friday 24 January 2025

• 16:00 - Beyond Boundaries: Developing Indigenous Intellectual History
  Saliha Belmessous (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Associate Professor Joseph Bahout (American University of Beirut)
  Friday Seminars

Tuesday 28 January 2025

• 17:00 - The Oxford Handbook of Religion in Turkey
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Caroline Tee (University of Chester), Dr Sertaç Sehlikoglu (UCL), Dr Stefan Williamson Fa (University of Cambridge), Associate Professor Fabio Vicini (University of Verona)
  Book Talks

Friday 31 January 2025

• 16:00 - Folksongs and Inclusion in Early Modernity: A Comparative Study
  Leigh Jenco (LSE)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Richard Barltrop (Trustee, The Sudanese Programme)
  Friday Seminars

Tuesday 4 February 2025

• 14:00 - Unfair ID: Digital Identity from Injustice to Resistance
  Silvia Masiero (University of Oslo)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 6 February 2025

• 10:00 - Open Scholarship: REF open access policy briefing
  Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Friday 7 February 2025

• 16:00 - Circulation: Object memory, global exchange, and the first English embassy to India
  Nandini Das (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Tuesday 11 February 2025

• 14:00 - Threatening Dystopias: Development, Scientific Knowledge, and Adaptation to Climate Change
  Kasia Paprocki (The London School of Economics)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Tribal Voting in New Democracies: Evidence from 6 Million Tunisian Voter Records
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Associate Professor Steven Brooke (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
  MENA Politics Seminars

Thursday 13 February 2025

• 10:00 - 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

Friday 14 February 2025

• 16:00 - Medicine for Ghosts: Visions, Possessions, and Medical Exchange in Early Modern Southeast Asia
  Tara Alberts (York)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Dahlia Scheindlin (Fellow, Century International & Columnist, Haaretz Newspaper)
  Friday Seminars

Monday 17 February 2025

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

Tuesday 18 February 2025

• 14:00 - Plantation Crisis: Ruptures of Dalit Life in the Indian Tea Belt
  Jayaseelan Raj (Kinds College London)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Genocide in Gaza
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Avi Shlaim (MEC Emeritus Fellow)
  Book Talks

Friday 21 February 2025

• 16:00 - The global nature of Mughal Early Modernity
  Azfar Moin (Austin, Texas)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The chaos (fawḍà) Bashshar al-Asad warned against – Damascus University 10th November 2005 – and present-day Syria
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Johannes Waardenburg (IULM)
  Friday Seminars

Tuesday 25 February 2025

• 14:00 - Between Nation and Community. Muslim Universities and Indian Politics after Partition (1947-1990s)
  Laurence Gautier (Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 15:00 - Open Scholarship: Your thesis, copyright and ORA
  David Watson (Bodleian Libraries), Thomas Mitchell (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship

Friday 28 February 2025

• 16:00 - Imperialism and Ethnology: The Ottoman Case
  Giancarlo Casale (EUI)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Khalil Shikaki (Director, Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research)
  Friday Seminars

Tuesday 4 March 2025

• 17:00 - Smugglers and States: Negotiating the Maghreb at Its Margins
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Max Gallien (Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex)
  Book Talks

Friday 7 March 2025

• 17:00 - From Jihad to Politics: How Syrian Jihadis Embraced Politics
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Jerome Drevon (Senior Analyst, Crisis Group)
  Book Talks

Tuesday 11 March 2025

• 10:00 - Open scholarship: Preregistration and registered reports: What, why, and how
  Jackie Thompson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - The Home I Worked to Make: Voices from the New Syrian Diaspora
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Wendy Pearlman (Northwestern University)
  Book Talks

Friday 14 March 2025

• 17:00 - Do we really owe Arabs nothing?
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Fouad Laroui
  Friday Seminars

Thursday 29 May 2025

• 10:00 - 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