Wednesday 11 February 2015

• 13:00 - Sub-Saharan mobility and the transformation of the urban religious landscape in Morocco
  Johara Berriane (Freie Universitat Berlin)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series

Friday 13 February 2015

• 14:00 - Progress, remaining challenges, and opportunities in the Great Lakes Region of Africa
  Russell Feingold
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series

Wednesday 18 February 2015

• 13:00 - Tracing diasporic identifications in Africa's urban landscapes: Evidence from Lusaka
  Oliver Bakewell (University of Oxford)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series

Wednesday 25 February 2015

• 13:00 - The effect of government party orientation on immigration policies
  Hein de Haas (University of Oxford), Katharina Natter (Universiteit Leiden)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series

Monday 2 March 2015

• 17:00 - Regulating Business for Peace: The United Nations, the Private Sector, and Post-Conflict Recovery
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  TBA
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series

Wednesday 4 March 2015

• 13:00 - Mobile female traders from Mali in Dakar (Senegal): Place-making abroad and on the move
  Gunvor Jonsson (SOAS, University of London)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series

Wednesday 11 March 2015

• 13:00 - Transitness in migration as a fallout of (deficient) socio-political interactions: The Case of Poland
  Michal Tudorowski (University of Sheffield)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series

Wednesday 29 April 2015

• 13:00 - The seasonal worker programs of Australia and New Zealand: A study in contrasts
  Richard Curtain (Development Policy Centre, Australian National University)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series

Wednesday 6 May 2015

• 13:00 - Remaining 'attached strangers': Encounters, relationships, and the future of African migrants in China
  Linessa Dan Lin (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series

Wednesday 13 May 2015

• 13:00 - Applying a gender lens to migration and development: Insights from research in Southern Africa
  Belinda Dodson (University of Western Ontario)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series

Monday 18 May 2015

• 14:00 - International Political Terrorism and the US Empire Project
  Professor Achin Vanaik

Wednesday 20 May 2015

• 13:00 - Time lines in autobiographical migration research: Lessons from an Afghan case study
  Marieke van Houte (University of Oxford)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series

Wednesday 27 May 2015

• 13:00 - Re-constructing the boundaries of the nation-state: The Israeli political discourse on African non-Jewish migrants
  Sharon Weinblum (University of Oxford)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series

Wednesday 3 June 2015

• 13:00 - What archaeological data tell us about the movement of populations in the last millennia? An anthropological / distant perspective on migrations
  Nicolas Zorzin (Université Panthéon - Sorbonne)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series

Wednesday 10 June 2015

• 13:00 - Does a North-South gradient exist for ‘healthy immigrant effect’ in Europe?
  TBA
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series

Wednesday 17 June 2015

• 13:00 - International mobility, local economics and European cooperation policies in the Central Sahara
  TBA
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series

Wednesday 14 October 2015

• 13:00 - Pakistani Migrant Transnational Social Service Organizations in London, Toronto and New York City
  Ali R. Chaudhary (University of Oxford)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series

Friday 16 October 2015

• 17:00 - ‘”Telling the natives what they need to know”: British institutions and the pursuit of an imperial role at the end of empire’
  Sarah Stockwell (KCL)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Tuesday 20 October 2015

• 17:00 - Risk, Rakhi and Romance: Learning about Gender and Sexuality in Delhi Secondary Schools
  Padmini Iyer (Centre for Innovation and Research in Childhood and Youth, University of Sussex / Young Lives)
  Children and Youth in a Changing World

Wednesday 21 October 2015

• 13:00 - Legislating for transnational ageing: a challenge for the Dutch and French welfare states
  Alistair Hunter (Institut national d’études démographiques), Anita Böcker (Radboud University)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series

Friday 23 October 2015

• 17:00 - ‘Accounting for the Great Divergence’
  Stephen Broadberry (University of Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Tuesday 27 October 2015

• 17:00 - Education and Culture in a Rapidly Changing Bhutan
  Ian Thompson (Education Department, University of Oxford), Ann Childs (Education Department, University of Oxford)
  Children and Youth in a Changing World

Wednesday 28 October 2015

• 13:00 - The changing face of social protection in Africa’s cities
  Oliver Bakewell (University of Oxford)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series

Friday 30 October 2015

• 17:00 - ‘White Revolutions: The Making of the Dairy Industry in Settler Australia’
  Yoriko Otomo (SOAS)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Tuesday 3 November 2015

• 17:00 - The Use of Mobile Phones for Nutrition Service Delivery: Designing an Innovative Impact Evaluation
  Inka Barnett (Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Sussex)
  Children and Youth in a Changing World

Wednesday 4 November 2015

• 13:00 - Reverse Welfare Magnet
  Edo Mahendra (University of Oxford)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series

Friday 6 November 2015

• 17:00 - ‘Global Economic Development and the Anthropocene’
  Gareth Austin (Geneva)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Tuesday 10 November 2015

• 17:00 - ‘Eve-teasing: Harassment, Flirting and Youth Mobility in the Urban Slums of India’
  Kabita Chakraborty (Department of Children’s Studies, York University, Canada)
  Children and Youth in a Changing World

Wednesday 11 November 2015

• 13:00 - When the Children of Migrants go to School: Educational Pathways and their determinants in Switzerland
  Laura Bernardi (University of Lausanne), Andrés Gomensoro (University of Lausanne)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series

Friday 13 November 2015

• 17:00 - ‘The capital and slavery. London and the Atlantic slave trade 1670-1770'
  Nuala Zahedieh (Edinburgh)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 16 November 2015

• 17:00 - Judgments and Justifications: The United Kingdom as International Crisis Manager, 1992-2003
  Markus Kornprobst (Diplomatic Academy of Vienna)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series

Tuesday 17 November 2015

• 17:00 - Developing Mental Health Services to Meet the Needs of Refugee Children
  Mina Fazel (Department of Psychiatry)
  Children and Youth in a Changing World
• 17:00 - Hope and uncertainty in African migration: Life after deportation to Ghana
  Nauja Kleist (Danish Institute for International Studies)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series

Wednesday 18 November 2015

• 13:00 - Access to social protection for internal migrants and the obstacles to adequate coverage
  Jessica Hagen-Zanker (Overseas Development Institute)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series

Friday 20 November 2015

• 17:00 - ‘Failure of the Bank of Bombay in 1868 and the concept of ‘difference’: Between the City of London and the Bazaar of Bombay’
  Stuart Sweeney (OCGH, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Tuesday 24 November 2015

• 17:00 - CANCELLED 'Sharing Seminar’ – Research with children and young people from across the University
  PLEASE NOTE THIS PRESENTATION HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
  Professor Judy Sebba (University of Oxford), Virginia Morrow (Young Lives, Oxford Department of International Development), Elaine Chaise (Oxford Institute of Social Policy)
  Children and Youth in a Changing World

Wednesday 25 November 2015

• 13:00 - Hyper-mobile migrant workers and the lack of social protection within the European Union: a case study from the Netherlands
  Lisa Berntsen (Tilburg University)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series

Friday 27 November 2015

• 17:00 - ‘Law and the economy in colonial India’
  Tirthankar Roy (LSE)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Wednesday 2 December 2015

• 13:00 - Transnational health insurances and the involvement of Congolese immigrants in their relatives’ health from abroad
  Jean-Michel Lafleur (University of Liège), Olivier Lizin (University of Liège)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series

Friday 4 December 2015

• 17:00 - ‘Protectionism, the Ottawa accords, and British interwar trade: some preliminary findings’
  Kevin O’Rourke (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Wednesday 20 January 2016

• 13:00 - Migration, politics and political change: Introduction to the seminar series and preliminary TRANSMIC findings
  Marieke van Houte (University of Oxford), Ali R. Chaudhary (University of Oxford)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Migration, politics and political change: Introduction to the seminar series and preliminary TRANS MIC findings
  Ali R. Chaudhary (University of Oxford), Marieke van Houte (University of Oxford)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series

Friday 22 January 2016

• 17:00 - ‘”Dead men naked”: Livingstone, memorialisation and British colonial rule in central Africa’
  Joanna Lewis (LSE)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Wednesday 27 January 2016

• 13:00 - The transnational activism of the stateless Kurdish diaspora and its implications on homeland politics
  Veysi Dag (Free University of Berlin)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series
• 13:00 - The transnational activism of the stateless Kurdish diaspora and its implications on homeland politics
  Veysi Dag (Free University of Berlin)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series

Friday 29 January 2016

• 17:00 - 'The 'Lonrho Affair' and the Late Colonial World'
  Andrew Cohen (Kent)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Wednesday 3 February 2016

• 13:00 - Who is acting for what change? A relational approach to transnational engagements of Afghans in Britain and Germany
  Carolin Fischer (University of Neuchâtel)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Who is acting for what change? A relational approach to transnational engagements of Afghans in Britain and Germany
  Carolin Fischer (Université de Neuchâtel)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series

Friday 5 February 2016

• 17:00 - ‘Snapshots of Empire: Imperial governance everywhere and all at once’
  Alan Lester (Sussex)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Wednesday 10 February 2016

• 13:00 - A multilevel citizenship puzzle: Residence and citizenship in national and local elections
  Rainer Bauböck (European University Institute)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series
• 13:00 - A multilevel citizenship puzzle: Residence and citizenship in national and local elections
  Rainer Bauböck (European University Institute)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series

Friday 12 February 2016

• 17:00 - ‘Patrolling and Controlling: Surveillance, Violence and State Security in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Colonies’
  Richard Hill (Victoria University Wellington; OCGH Visiting Scholar)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Wednesday 17 February 2016

• 13:00 - When the diaspora takes charge: state making and diaspora return in Rwanda
  Simon Turner (University of Copenhagen)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series
• 13:00 - When the diaspora takes charge: state making and diaspora return in Rwanda
  Simon Turner (University of Copenhagen)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series

Friday 19 February 2016

• 17:00 - ‘Legal culture, trade and inter-imperial circulation : a mid 18th century Atlantic case’
  Marie Houllemare (Amiens / Institut Universitaire de France / OCGH Visiting Scholar)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Wednesday 24 February 2016

• 13:00 - Cross-border migration as the transnational social question
  Thomas Faist (Bielefeld University)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Cross-border migration as the transnational social question
  Thomas Faist (Bielefeld University)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series

Friday 26 February 2016

• 17:00 - ‘The Gun in Central Africa: A History of Politics and Technology’
  Giacomo Macola (Kent)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Wednesday 2 March 2016

• 13:00 - Ethnicity, socialization, policy preferences or social structure? Disentangling and comparing the sources of migrants' political preferences across Europe
  Laura Morales (University of Leicester)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Ethnicity, socialization, policy preferences or social structure? Disentangling and comparing the sources of migrants’ political preferences across Europe
  Laura Morales (University of Leicester)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series

Friday 4 March 2016

• 10:00 - Graduate Student Research Presentations
  TBA
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Wednesday 9 March 2016

• 13:00 - The micro-politics of mobility and immobility
  Jørgen Carling (Peace Research Institute Oslo)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series
• 13:00 - The micro-politics of mobility and immobility
  Jørgen Carling (Peace Research Institute Oslo)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series

Friday 11 March 2016

• 10:00 - Graduate Student Research Presentations
  TBA
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Wednesday 27 April 2016

• 13:00 - Birthplace, bloodline and beyond: How ‘Liberian citizenship’ is currently constructed in Liberia and abroad
  Robtel Neajai Pailey (University of Oxford)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Birthplace, bloodline and beyond: How "Liberian citizenship" is currently constructed in Liberia and abroad
  Robtel Neajai (University of Oxford)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series

Wednesday 4 May 2016

• 13:00 - Emigration and the distribution of income per natural: evidence from Egypt
  Joachim Jarreau (University of Paris-Dauphine)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Emigration and the distribution of income per natural: evidence from egypt
  Joachim Jarreau (University of Paris-Dauphine)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series

Wednesday 11 May 2016

• 13:00 - Assembling circulation: Governing the mobility of health professionals from the Philippines to Germany
  Cleovi Mosuela (Bielefeld University)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Assembling circulation: Governing the mobility of health profesionals from the Philipines to Germany
  Cleovi Mosuela (Bielefeld University)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series

Wednesday 18 May 2016

• 13:00 - From coffee to industry: Changes in migrants’ characteristics in metropolitan areas in Brazil
  Guilherme Margarido Ortega (University of Campinas)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series
• 13:00 - From coffee to industry: Changes in migrants' characteristics in metropolitan areas in Brazil
  Guiherme M. Ortega (University of Campinas)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series

Thursday 19 May 2016

• 13:00 - 'Innovation for Development' Part One
  Light food and beverages will be provided given the lunch time start.
  Shaheen Akter (Oxford TMCD), Marco Haenssgen (Nuffield Department of Medicine), Kate Roll (Said School of Business), Muhammad Meki (Department of Economics)
  'Innovation for Development' Research Seminars 2016

Monday 23 May 2016

• 17:00 - Anatomy of Authoritarianism in the Arab Republics
  Professor Joseph Sassoon (Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University)

Wednesday 25 May 2016

• 13:00 - The cultural transmission of the fertility transition: Evidence from internal migrations in 19th century France
  Hillel Rapoport (University of Paris 1 and Paris School of Economics)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series
• 13:00 - The cultural transmission of the fertility transition: evidence from internal migrations in 19th century France
  Hillel Rapoport (University of Paris 1 and Parish School of Economics)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series

Wednesday 1 June 2016

• 13:00 - Institutions and their representations of compatriotism: The case of diaspora politics of Slovakia and the Slovak diaspora in Romania
  Natalia Blahova (Slovak Academy of Sciences)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Institutions and their representations of compatriotism: The case of diaspora politics of Slovakia and Slovak diaspora in Romania
  Natalia Blahova (Slovak Academy of Sciences)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series
• 13:00 - 'Innovation for Development' Part Two
  Light food and beverages will be provided given the lunch time start.
  Guillermo Casasnovas (Said Business School), Kaihua Chen (Chinese Academy of Sciences), Yawen Li (Tsinghua University), Hao Xu (MNEmerge Project)
  'Innovation for Development' Research Seminars 2016

Wednesday 8 June 2016

• 13:00 - The administrative barriers to mobility and international knowledge flows
  Sultan Orazbayev (UCL)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series
• 13:00 - The administrative barriers to mobility and international knowledge flows
  Mouhoub el Mouhoud (university of Paris-Dauphine)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series
• 16:00 - The relationship between social capital and health: What mechanisms and empirical evidence
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Richard Scheffler (UC Berkeley School of Public Health)
• 16:00 - The relationship between social capital and health: What mechanisms and empirical evidence
  Professor Richard Scheffler (The relationship between social capital and health: What mechanisms and empirical evidence )
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series

Wednesday 15 June 2016

• 13:00 - ‘To have and have not’: International migration, poverty and inequality in Algeria
  Mouhoub el Mouhoud (University of Paris-Dauphine)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series

Monday 10 October 2016

• 13:00 - An Introduction to Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative
  Lunch Provided
  Professor Sabina Alkire (University of Oxford)
  Archive: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series

Wednesday 12 October 2016

• 13:00 - Segue to revolution: Border activisms in the meantimes
  Nick Gill (University of Exeter)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series

Friday 14 October 2016

• 17:00 - 'Anti-Colonial Rebellion during the First World War: The French Empire in Indo-China’
  Jonathan Krause (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 17 October 2016

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Lunch Provided
  TBA
  Archive: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series

Wednesday 19 October 2016

• 13:00 - Track, sort and archive: The temporality of visibility and border surveillance between EUROSUR and JORA
  Martina Tazzioli (Swansea University and City University of London)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series

Friday 21 October 2016

• 17:00 - ‘The Military Revolution and European Global Expansion’
  Dr Peter Wilson (All Souls College)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 24 October 2016

• 13:00 - The choice of weights in multidimensional poverty measurement - An empirical validation
  Lunch Provided
  Michael Schleicher ( South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University)
  Archive: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series

Wednesday 26 October 2016

• 13:00 - Humanitarian non-state actors and the delocalised EU border of the Central Mediterranean
  Paolo Cuttitta (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series

Friday 28 October 2016

• 17:00 - ‘Eighteenth-century Empires at War: Managing Knowledge in Franco-British Imperial Wars’
  Erica Charters (Wolfson, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 31 October 2016

• 13:00 - The Research agenda on multidimensional poverty: important and as-yet unanswered questions
  Lunch Provided
  Professor Sabina Alkire (University of Oxford)
  Archive: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 17:00 - From Gridlock to Catalyst: The Surprising Evolution of the Climate Regime
  Dr Thomas Hale (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series

Wednesday 2 November 2016

• 13:00 - Governing migration through death in Europe and the US: Identification, burial and the crisis of modern humanism
  Vicki Squire (University of Warwick)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series

Friday 4 November 2016

• 17:00 - ‘The Impact of World War One on British Imperial Relations’
  Margaret MacMillan (St Antony’s, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 7 November 2016

• 13:00 - Measurement and determinants of child multidimensional poverty in Senegal
  Lunch Provided
  Bouba Housseini (University of Oxford)
  Archive: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Sweet Talk: Paternalism and Collective Action in North-South Trade Negotiations
  Professor J P Singh (Director, Centre for Cultural Relations, University of Edinburgh)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series

Wednesday 9 November 2016

• 13:00 - Between knowledge and power: Understanding how international organisations see migration
  Antoine Pécoud (University of Paris 13)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series

Friday 11 November 2016

• 17:00 - ‘Voices from the 1915 Chilembwe Rising in Nyasaland’
  John McCracken (Stirling)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 14 November 2016

• 13:00 - Changes in multidimensional poverty among countries in Sub-Saharan Africa – Results for 35 Countries
  Lunch Provided
  Christoph Jindra (University of Oxford)
  Archive: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series

Wednesday 16 November 2016

• 13:00 - Cyclone–migration–adaptation nexus in the social context of Bangladesh
  Bishawjit Mallick (Vanderbilt University Nashville)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Book Launch: The New Turkey and its Discontents
  A drinks reception will follow the talk
  Emre Caliskan (St Antony's College, Oxford), Simon A. Waldman (King’s College London)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)

Friday 18 November 2016

• 17:00 - ‘‘A Band of Mothers’. The Mothers Union and Global Solidarities amongst Anglican Women during the First World War’
  Adrian Gregory (Pembroke, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 21 November 2016

• 13:00 - Multidimensional poverty in China 2010-2014
  Lunch Provided
  Yangyang Shen (University of Oxford)
  Archive: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series

Wednesday 23 November 2016

• 13:00 - North–South migration and postcolonial encounters: Portuguese labour migrants in Angola
  Lisa Åkesson (University of Gothenburg)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series

Friday 25 November 2016

• 17:00 - ‘Postwar China and the Making of Modern World Order, 1945-50’
  Rana Mitter (St Cross, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 28 November 2016

• 13:00 - Do alternative measures of poverty matter? A comparison between consumption poverty and multidimensional poverty in Indonesia
  Lunch Provided
  TBA
  Archive: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Eraced: International Relations and the Global Colour Line
  Nivi Manchanda (Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series

Wednesday 30 November 2016

• 13:00 - Gender, violence and vulnerability: Examining the politics of protection in the current refugee 'crisis'
  Jane Freedman (CNRS and University of Paris 8)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series

Friday 2 December 2016

• 17:00 - Book Launch: ‘The Katangese Gendarmes and War in Central Africa, 1960-1999’
  Miles Larmer (St Antony’s, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 16 January 2017

• 17:00 - The End of Africa Rising
  Ian Taylor (St Andrews)
  African History & Politics Seminars

Tuesday 17 January 2017

• 13:00 - Understanding Turkey's policy towards Syrian refugees: unpacking national and local level politics
  Dr Fulya Memişoğlu (University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Wednesday 18 January 2017

• 13:00 - Skilled Ghanaian return migrants navigating the gendered politics of ‘adjustment’
  Madeleine Wong (St. Lawrence University)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Lecture by Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen
  Professor Amartya Sen (Harvard University)
• 17:00 - Syria and its refugees: a historical perspective
  Professor Dawn Chatty (University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Friday 20 January 2017

• 17:00 - ‘Mobilizing Free China: mass lines, new deals, and the problem of legitimacy on early Cold War Taiwan’
  Tehyun Ma (University of Sheffield)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 23 January 2017

• 17:00 - Raising the Curtain: Revealing African movie-goers during colonialism
  Odile Goerg (Paris 7)
  African History & Politics Seminars

Tuesday 24 January 2017

• 13:00 - Interpretation of the right to family reunification of unaccompanied asylum seeking children under international law
  Yulia Ioffe (University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Wednesday 25 January 2017

• 13:00 - Migratory flows, colonial encounters and the histories of transatlantic slavery
  Olivette Otele (Bath Spa University)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Divided by a shared agenda: the humanitarian response to the crisis in Syria
  James Darcy (Lead consultant for the UN-commissioned Whole of Syria Review)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 26 January 2017

• 14:00 - Living without the IMF: Can Pakistan succeed?
  Rashid Amjad (Lahore School of Economics)
  Contemporary South Asia Seminars

Friday 27 January 2017

• 17:00 - ‘Reform-oriented Sufi orders in South Asia: local and global connections’
  Moin Nizami (OxCIS)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Tuesday 31 January 2017

• 13:00 - "I had to build my way again": an anthropological exploration of struggles to build good lives in the face of war among Syrian refugee youth in Amman
  Emilie Mortensen (Aarhus University)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Wednesday 1 February 2017

• 13:00 - African migration to and from Europe: Rethinking circular migration
  Antony Otieno Ong’ayo (University of Utrecht and Tilburg University)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The ethics of protection in Syria
  Professor Jennifer Welsh (European University Institute)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 2 February 2017

• 14:00 - Fragmented Transitions: Growth, Mobility and Democracy in India
  Indrajit Roy (QEH, Oxford)
  Contemporary South Asia Seminars

Friday 3 February 2017

• 17:00 - ‘Bringing a girl from the village: domestic service and gender relations in post-colonial Africa’
  Sacha Hepburn (IHR, University of London)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 6 February 2017

• 17:00 - Whose Peace? Local Ownership and UN Peace Operations
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Sarah von Billerbeck (University of Reading)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series
• 17:00 - The Authoritarian Origins of Well-Organised Opposition Parties: The Rise of Chadema in Tanzania
  Dan Paget (University of Oxford)
  African History & Politics Seminars

Tuesday 7 February 2017

• 13:00 - The power of norms: protracted refugee situations and the international refugee regime
  Hugh Tuckfield (University of Sydney)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Wednesday 8 February 2017

• 13:00 - The politics of Congolese Combattants’ violent transnational mobilisation
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Peter Kankonde Bukasa (University of the Witwatersrand and University of Notre Dame)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The struggle for Syria
  Professor Ziad Majed (American University of Paris)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 9 February 2017

• 14:00 - Aspiration, Desire and the Joint Family in Pakistan
  Ammara Maqsood (University of Oxford)
  Contemporary South Asia Seminars

Friday 10 February 2017

• 17:00 - ‘Rethinking American Empire’
  Tony Hopkins (University of Cambridge)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 13 February 2017

• 17:00 - The Hisbah Islamic Police in Northern Nigeria
  Raufu Mustapha (University of Oxford)
  African History & Politics Seminars

Tuesday 14 February 2017

• 13:00 - Failing to manage or managing to fail: Hungarian, Polish, and Romanian responses to the refugee crisis
  Mikolaj Pawlak (University of Warsaw)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Wednesday 15 February 2017

• 13:00 - Transnational religious practices and negotiation of difference among Zimbabwean Catholics in Britain
  Dominic Pasura (University of Glasgow)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Syrian trajectories: from local revolutionary actors to exiled humanitarian workers. Meanings of humanitarian action in the Syrian post-2011 context
  Dr Laura Ruiz de Elvira Carrascal (CNRS/IREMAM, France)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 16 February 2017

• 14:00 - Conferencing the International: Making India in London during the Round Table Conferences, 1930-32
  Dr Stephen Legg (University of Nottingham)
  Contemporary South Asia Seminars

Friday 17 February 2017

• 17:00 - ‘At the edge of empires: the modern nation, ex-colonial milieu and transnationalism of the Chinese in Port of Spain, Trinidad, from the 1930s to the 1960s’
  Setsuko Sonoda (University of Hyogo)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 20 February 2017

• 17:00 - Dirty Gold: How Activism Transformed the Jewelry Industry
  Dr Michael Bloomfield (University of Bath)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series

Tuesday 21 February 2017

• 13:00 - Unaccompanied young migrants and refugees coming of age in the UK and Italy: pathways through immigration control and welfare regimes
  Jenny Allsopp (University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Wednesday 22 February 2017

• 13:00 - Migration, family and the changing significance of absence in Senegal
  Hélène Neveu Kringelbach (University College London)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Writing in times of war and revolution
  Samar Yazbek (Syrian writer, Paris)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 23 February 2017

• 14:00 - Unfixed land: Studying India from the Ground Up
  Nikita Sud (University of Oxford)
  Contemporary South Asia Seminars

Friday 24 February 2017

• 17:00 - ‘From the periphery to oblivion’
  John Darwin (Nuffield College, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 27 February 2017

• 17:00 - Reputation-Building of Emergent ODA Donors from Europe and Latin America
  Luciana Alexandra Ghica (University of Bucharest)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series
• 17:00 - Politics in Burkina Faso (TBC)
  Richard Banegas (Sciences Po Paris)
  African History & Politics Seminars

Tuesday 28 February 2017

• 13:00 - A life suspended: impending repatriation and the temporal experience of exile along the Thai-Burma border
  Carrie Perkins (Southern Methodist University, Texas)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Wednesday 1 March 2017

• 13:00 - 'All the money I raised, I raised from Ghana': Understanding reverse remittance practice among Ghanaian migrants in the UK and their relatives in Ghana
  Geraldine Adiku (University of Oxford)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The Syrian internal displacement
  Dr Leïla Vignal (University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Friday 3 March 2017

• 10:30 - Global and Imperial History graduate student research presentations (D.Phil.)
  Various Speakers
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Tuesday 7 March 2017

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Ulrike Krause (Philipps University of Marburg)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Wednesday 8 March 2017

• 13:00 - The subjective wellbeing of African transnational parents in Europe
  Bilisuma B. Dito (Maastricht University)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series

Friday 10 March 2017

• 11:30 - Global and Imperial History graduate student research presentations (M.St.)
  Various Speakers
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Wednesday 26 April 2017

• 13:00 - The politics of diaspora-making: A critical approach to Turkey's diaspora engagement policy
  Bahar Başer (Coventry University)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Book Launch: ‘EU Asylum Policies: The Power of Strong Regulating States’
  Dr Natascha Zaun (Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford), Dr Matthias Czaika (IMI, University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Friday 28 April 2017

• 13:00 - Agrarian Negotiations in Colombia: Contested Visions of Food and Agriculture
  Felipe Roa Clavijo (University of Oxford)
  ODID DPhil Research Seminars

Monday 1 May 2017

• 17:00 - History, legitimacy and Renamo’s return to arms in central Mozambique
  Justin Pearce (University of Cambridge)
  African History & Politics Seminars

Tuesday 2 May 2017

• 13:00 - The Buddhist people smuggler - challenges problematic rhetoric on people smugglers
  Bodean Hedwards (Monash University)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Wednesday 3 May 2017

• 13:00 - Integration of Brits in Turkey and Turks in Britain
  İbrahim Sirkeci (Regents University, London)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Refugees and the politics of indignity
  Professor David Owen (University of Southampton)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Friday 5 May 2017

• 13:00 - Dominant Rural Landed Elites and Land Acquisition in Maharashtra, India
  Mihika Chatterjee (Green Templeton College)
  ODID DPhil Research Seminars

Tuesday 9 May 2017

• 17:00 - Sectarianization: Mapping the New Politics of the Middle East | Book Launch
  Dr Nader Hashemi (University of Denver), Danny Postel (Northwestern University), Dr Leïla Vignal (University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures

Wednesday 10 May 2017

• 13:00 - A dynamic, but skewed industry: Supply chain relations and working conditions in UK garment manufacturing
  Martin Buttle (Ethical Trading Initiative)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Nostalgia and Legitimacy: Understanding the Externalization of European Migration Policy | Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture 2017
  Professor Thomas Spijkerboer (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Friday 12 May 2017

• 13:00 - Visthapit' in The City: Politics of Citizenship and Resettlement in Ahmedabad in The Aftermath of 2002 Riots
  Adil Hossain (University of Oxford)
  ODID DPhil Research Seminars

Monday 15 May 2017

• 17:00 - Bureaucrats and chiefs : the making of certificates of origin in Nigeria
  Laurent Fourchard (Sciences Po)
  African History & Politics Seminars

Tuesday 16 May 2017

• 13:00 - Non-refoulement as a norm in international and EU law
  Jenny Poon (University of Western Ontario)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Wednesday 17 May 2017

• 13:00 - How do Syrian refugee workers challenge supply chain management in the Turkish garment industry?
  Emre Eren Korkmaz (University of Oxford)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Demolishing development myths: alternative theories of economic development
  Professor Jayati Ghosh (School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India), Erik Reinert, Rainer Kattel
• 17:00 - Should humanitarian organisations help with coerced repatriation?
  Dr Mollie Gerver (Leeds University)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 18 May 2017

• 17:00 - Oxford Development Studies Annual Lecture: Conservation and Development in the Digital Era
  James Fairhead (University of Sussex)
• 17:00 - Conservation and development in the digital era
  James Fairhead (University of Sussex)
  Oxford Development Studies Annual Lectures

Monday 22 May 2017

• 17:00 - Does this summer's Rwandan election matter?
  Will Jones (Royal Holloway)
  African History & Politics Seminars

Tuesday 23 May 2017

• 13:00 - International refugee protection and the secondary forced displacement of Palestinian refugees
  Jasmin Fritzsche (Ruhr-University Bochum)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Wednesday 24 May 2017

• 13:00 - Migration governance and security in the Euro-Mediterranean space: A communicational and discoursive analysis
  Ivan Ureta (University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series
• 17:00 - British and French deprivation policies as an instance of renationalisation of citizenship
  Émilien Fargues (Sciences Po, Paris)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Monday 29 May 2017

• 17:00 - The materiality of voting: How to revisit African election
  Sandrine Perrot (Sciences Po)
  African History & Politics Seminars

Tuesday 30 May 2017

• 13:00 - Rethinking Labour, Rethinking Refugee: The Untold History of Refugees and the ILO
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Evan Easton-Calabria (University of Oxford), Dr William Allen (University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Wednesday 31 May 2017

• 13:00 - Emerging topologies of transnational employment: ‘Posting’ Thai workers in Sweden’s wild berry industry beyond regulatory reach
  Linn Axelsson (Stockholm University)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series

Tuesday 6 June 2017

• 13:00 - International Advocacy in the Digital Era: Campaigning for Refugee Rights in 2015 & 2016
  Dr Nina Hall (Hertie School of Governance)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series
• 13:00 - 'The Orphan Industrial Complex'
  Dr Kristen Cheney (International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague )

Wednesday 7 June 2017

• 13:00 - What drives migration outflows of foreign populations from Spain? Evidence from the Great Recession
  María Gutiérrez Portilla (University of Cantabria)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series

Thursday 8 June 2017

• 17:00 - Olof Palme Lecture 2017: Presence and social obligation: an essay on the share
  Professor James Ferguson (Stanford University)
  Olof Palme Lectures

Tuesday 13 June 2017

• 13:00 - “What’s hospitality got to do with it?” Revisiting the guest discourse in the anthropology of humanitarianism
  Ann-Christin Wagner (University of Edinburgh)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Wednesday 14 June 2017

• 13:00 - Trade unions, agency (migrant) workers and the insiders/outsiders debate: Germany and Belgium compared
  Valeria Pulignano (KU Leuven)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series

Monday 9 October 2017

• 13:00 - Multidimensional Poverty in Measurement and Policy
  Sandwich lunch available on a first come, first served basis.
  Prof John Hammock (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative), Dr Bilal Malaeb (Institute of Global Affairs, London School of Economics and Political Science)
  Archive: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series

Wednesday 11 October 2017

• 13:00 - Mobile phones and the changing mobility practices of stretched families in sub-Saharan Africa
  Gina Porter (Durham University)
  Technology and Mobilities in Africa
• 17:00 - Data for migration and asylum policies: the realities hidden within and behind the numbers
  Ann Singleton (University of Bristol)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Friday 13 October 2017

• 16:00 - 'The British World and the Arid World'
  Robert Fletcher (Warwick)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Book launch: 'Post Truth: The War on Truth and How to Fight Back'
  Matthew D'Ancona (Journalist)
  Re-Engaging Truth Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Israel under Siege: The politics of Insecurity and the Rise of the Israeli Neo-Revisionist Right
  Raffaella Del Sarto (SAIS)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series

Monday 16 October 2017

• 13:00 - Multidimensional Impact Evaluation: The Case of WINGS in Uganda
  A sandwich lunch is available on a first come, first served basis.
  Dr Bilal Malaeb (Institute of Global Affairs, London School of Economics and Political Science)
  Archive: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Symbolic Insult in Diplomacy: a subtle game of diplomatic slap
  Professor Alisher Faizullaev (Former Ambassador of Uzbekistan to the United Kingdom)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series

Tuesday 17 October 2017

• 13:00 - A work in progress: a critical analysis of the Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework
  Dr Jeff Crisp (Refugee Studies Centre)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Wednesday 18 October 2017

• 17:00 - The constitutional right to asylum: the wave of the future in international refugee law?
  Professor Stephen Meili (University of Minnesota)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 19 October 2017

• 17:30 - Astor Lecture 2017: Agriculture, Technology and Economic Development
  Professor Christopher Udry (Northwestern University)
  ODID Special Lectures & Seminars

Friday 20 October 2017

• 16:00 - 'The Adamsons, Born Free and the late colonial era: images that changed the animal world'
  William Beinart (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The Islamic Enlightenment: The Modern Struggle between Faith and Reason
  Christopher de Bellaigue
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series
• 17:00 - What happened to academic knowledge during the Brexit debate?
  Stephen Booth (Open Europe), Dr Brigid Fowler (Hansard Society), Lindsay Mackie (New Weather Institute)
  Re-Engaging Truth Seminar Series

Monday 23 October 2017

• 13:00 - The global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) and other global indices
  A sandwich lunch is available on a first come, first served basis.
  Professor Sabina Alkire (University of Oxford)
  Archive: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Book Launch: In Search of the Elusive Zimbabwean Dream: An Autobiography of Thought
  Arthur Mutambara (Former Deputy Prime Minister, Zimbabwe)
  African History & Politics Seminars

Wednesday 25 October 2017

• 13:00 - Materialities in the lives of Malian urban refugees in Burkina Faso: uses and understandings of refugee biometric ID cards
  Nora Bardelli (University of Oxford)
  Technology and Mobilities in Africa
• 17:00 - Livelihoods in displacement: from refugee perspectives to aid agency response
  Dr Veronique Barbelet (Overseas Development Institute)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Friday 27 October 2017

• 09:00 - Workshop: New Perspectives on Political Economy of the Middle East
  Various Speakers
• 16:00 - 'Empire Forestry, famines and communities; Eastern India in the nineteenth and twentieth century'
  Vinita Damodaran (Sussex)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - State Capacity, Peace and Development: Challenges for the Middle East
  Professor Tim Besley (London School of Economics)
• 17:00 - What role should academics play in public knowledge creation: should they be advocates and policymakers?
  Ceri Thomas (University of Oxford), Professor Danny Dorling (University of Oxford), Annette Idler (Blavatnik School of Government), Ruth Mayne (Oxfam)
  Re-Engaging Truth Seminar Series

Monday 30 October 2017

• 13:00 - Walls of glass: Measuring deprivation in social participation
  A sandwich lunch will be available on a first come, first served basis.
  Dr Nicolai Suppa (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative)
  Archive: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Politics, ideology and authoritarian state-making in socialist Tanzania
  George Roberts (University of Cambridge)
  African History & Politics Seminars

Tuesday 31 October 2017

• 13:00 - Just bureaucracy? An ethnography of the unification of the registration of refugees in Kenya by Government of Keyna and UNHCR
  Claire Walkey (University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Wednesday 1 November 2017

• 13:00 - Of Hotspots and Agents of Connectivity. Exploring Urban-Rural Interactions in and around Kinshasa’s Phonie Cabins
  Katrien Pype (University of Leuven & University of Birmingham)
  Technology and Mobilities in Africa
• 17:00 - Borders, boxes and disciplinary boundaries: the delineation of forced migration in research and practice
  Dr Gayle Munro (The Salvation Army)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Rohingya Humanitarian Crisis: Bangladesh Response
  Md. Shahidul Haque (Foreign Secretary, Government of Bangladesh)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series

Friday 3 November 2017

• 14:00 - Mining and Environmental Change in African History
  Gavin Bridge (Durham), Deborah Bryceson (Edinburgh), Iva Peša (Oxford), Corey Ross (Birmingham)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Governing Divided Egypt
  Robert Springborg (King's College, London)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Setting research agendas: where does the power lie?
  Dr Insa Koch (LSE), Jon Harle (INASP), Hannah Burd (The Behavioural Insights Team, UK Cabinet Office)
  Re-Engaging Truth Seminar Series

Monday 6 November 2017

• 13:00 - Causal claims to wellbeing improvement: the QuIP quest for better impact evaluation
  A sandwich lunch is available on a first come, first served basis.
  Prof James Copestake (University of Bath)
  Archive: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Book Launch: Police in Africa: The Street-Level View
  Oliver Owen (University of Oxford), Prof Jonny Steinberg (University of Oxford)
  African History & Politics Seminars

Wednesday 8 November 2017

• 17:00 - Asylum and Nehru’s changing non-alignment: Tibetan refugees in India
  Ria Kapoor
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Friday 10 November 2017

• 11:00 - Paradoxical Climate, Top Management Team Job-Related Diversity and Organizational Innovation
  Professor Jiatao Li (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
  ODID Special Lectures & Seminars
• 16:00 - 'The Amerikan Steppes: The Unexpected Russian Roots of Great Plains Agriculture, 1870s-1930s'
  David Moon (York)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Martial Arts in the Middle East
  Hatsuki Aishima (National Museum of Ethnology, Japan)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series
• 17:00 - What contentious issues are easily manipulated in public discourse?
  George Gabriel (Citizens UK), Dr Michele Leiby ( College of Wooster, Ohio), Dr Matthew Krain (College of Wooster, Ohio)
  Re-Engaging Truth Seminar Series

Monday 13 November 2017

• 13:00 - Chronic or acute? Preference-consistent measurement of poverty over time
  A sandwich lunch is available on a first come, first served basis.
  Dr Natalie Quinn (University of Oxford)
  Archive: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Panel: Understanding West Africa’s Ebola Epidemic: Towards a Political Economy
  Dr Julia Amos (University of Oxford)
  African History & Politics Seminars
• 17:00 - 'Understanding West Africa’s Ebola Epidemic: Towards a Political Economy' (CIS Co-Sponsored Book Launch/ Panel Discussion)
  Dr Julia Amos (University of Oxford), Prof Nicole Zitzmann ((Biochemistry) University of Oxford), Dr Kerrie Thornhill (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 15 November 2017

• 13:00 - The significance and politics of technology in registering refugees in Kenya
  Claire Walkey (University of Oxford)
  Technology and Mobilities in Africa
• 17:00 - Aquí es frontera. Transit migration and border control in southern Mexico
  Dr Simon McMahon (University of Coventry)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Panel discussion: Informal Transportation Systems in Rapidly Growing Cities
  Professor Sir Paul Collier (Blavatnik School of Government), Tim Schwanen (Transport Studies Unit, University of Oxford), Dr Clemence Cavoli (University College London)
  ODID Special Lectures & Seminars

Friday 17 November 2017

• 16:00 - 'A Thirsty Empire: Water Scarcity in the British Indian Ocean World 1850-1945'
  Ruth Morgan (Monash)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Yemen in Crisis: Autocracy, Neo-Liberalism and the Disintegration of a State
  Helen Lackner (London Middle East Institute)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series
• 17:00 - How is opinion shaped by new and old media?
  Rob McNeil (The Migration Observatory, University of Oxford), Ilan Manor (University of Oxford), Robert Gorwa (Oxford Internet Institute)
  Re-Engaging Truth Seminar Series

Saturday 18 November 2017

• 09:00 - Ex-ducere and edu-care: Learning together for an ecology of well-being
  Full programme at http://www.qeh.ox.ac.uk/events/ex-ducere-and-edu-care-learning-together-ecology-well-being
  Various Speakers
  ODID Conferences and Workshops

Monday 20 November 2017

• 17:00 - The Market Model: The Commodification of Migrants and their Rights
  Professor Justin Gest (George Mason University)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series
• 17:00 - How international programmes politicise interwar societies: The case of women’s collective action in Burundi (1993-2015)
  Dr Marie Saiget (SciencesPo/CERI)
  African History & Politics Seminars

Tuesday 21 November 2017

• 17:00 - Round table: Reflections on the ‘Bond Coup’ in Zimbabwe to date
  Professor Jocelyn Alexander (University of Oxford), Dr Miles Tendi (University of Oxford), Simukai Chigudu (University of Oxford), Jason Brickhill (University of Oxford), Dr Susanne Verheul (University of Oxford)
  ODID Special Lectures & Seminars

Wednesday 22 November 2017

• 13:00 - The ECHO Refugee Library project | Presentation and photo exhibition
  Various Speakers
• 17:00 - The displacement paradox: good refugees, bad migrants. Where can the unwanted go? | Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture 2017
  Dr Jemilah Mahmood (IFRC)
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures

Friday 24 November 2017

• 13:00 - Research for Action: A Conversation with Jean Drèze
  Lunch provided; Copies of Prof Jean Drèze's new book 'Sense and Solidarity: Jholawala Economics for Everyone' will be available for purchase at £9.00 each.
  Prof Jean Drèze (Delhi School of Economics), Professor Sabina Alkire (University of Oxford), Prof Matthew McCartney (University of Oxford)
• 16:00 - Waiting for the barbarians: what archaeology has to say about southern hemisphere equestrians
  Peter Mitchell (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Are Algerian politics exhausted?
  Hugh Roberts (Tufts University)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Designing a ‘Turning the Dial’ research project
  TBA
  Re-Engaging Truth Seminar Series

Monday 27 November 2017

• 13:00 - The Multidimensional Poverty Index as a Planning Tool Across Africa
  A sandwich lunch is available on a first come, first served basis.
  Dr Pali Lehohla (Statistics South Africa)
  Archive: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Cultures of decolonisation: political change and student life in Nigeria
  Tim Livsey (University of Oxford)
  African History & Politics Seminars

Tuesday 28 November 2017

• 13:00 - Roundtable discussion featuring 'Contesting expulsion' and 'The rise of reconnection'
  Jennifer Barrett (University of Oxford), Diletta Lauro (University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series
• 17:00 - ZANU PF in History, 1963-2017
  Professor Gerald Chikozho Mazarire (Midlands State University, Zimbabwe)
  ODID Special Lectures & Seminars

Wednesday 29 November 2017

• 17:00 - Belgian refugees between ‘war’ and ‘peace’: trauma, transition and repatriation
  Dr Hannah Ewence (University of Chester)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 30 November 2017

• 13:00 - Migration research and control in the age of big data
  Linnet Taylor (Tilburg University)
  Technology and Mobilities in Africa

Friday 1 December 2017

• 16:00 - 'The Imperial Zoo. The commodification of wildlife, colonial propaganda, and transimperial conservationism (London, Paris, and Antwerp zoos, nineteenth century-ca. 1960)'
  Violette Pouillard (Ghent)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The policy implications of President Rouhani 's second term
  Roham Alvandi (LSE), Amir Paivar (BBC)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series

Monday 15 January 2018

• 12:30 - Educated Subjectivity and Social Haunting in North India
  Akanksha Awal (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Anthropology and International Development
• 13:00 - Understanding the Differences between the MPI and MODA
  A sandwich lunch is available on a first come, first served basis.
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Sabina Alkire (University of Oxford)
  Archive: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series

Wednesday 17 January 2018

• 17:00 - The political predicament and agency of refugees
  Dr Reuven (Ruvi) Ziegler (University of Reading)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Friday 19 January 2018

• 13:00 - The political economy of pension reform in post-authoritarian Chile, 1990-2000
  Ignacio Schiappacasse (University of Oxford)
  ODID DPhil Research Seminars
• 16:00 - ‘An unnavigable valley: trade and sovereignty in the forest of Borneo, c. 1878-1938’
  Shinobu Majima (Gakushuin)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 22 January 2018

• 11:00 - Small Farming and Development: Contours of the Debate in the Global Era - a seminar for postgraduate students with Elisa Botella-Rodríguez
  Elisa Botella-Rodríguez (University of Salamanca)
  ODID Special Lectures & Seminars
• 12:30 - Title TBC
  Idalina Baptista (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Anthropology and International Development

Wednesday 24 January 2018

• 17:00 - Open borders in the nineteenth century: constructing the national, the citizen and the foreigner in South America
  Dr Diego Acosta (University of Bristol)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Open borders in the nineteenth century: constructing the national, the citizen and the foreigner in South America
  Dr Diego Acosta (University of Bristol )
  Public Seminar Series

Thursday 25 January 2018

• 17:00 - Special Lecture: Religious dress
  The Right Hon the Baroness Hale of Richmond DBE (President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Friday 26 January 2018

• 16:00 - 'Duncan Sandys and Decolonisation'
  Please note change in programme due to speaker illness.
  Dr Peter Brooke (Wolfson, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 29 January 2018

• 12:30 - Title TBC
  Oliver Owen (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Anthropology and International Development
• 13:00 - Multidimensional Poverty and Violence
  A sandwich lunch is available on a first come, first served basis.
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Christian Oldiges (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative)
  Archive: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Book Launch: We Do Not Have Borders: Greater Somalia and the Predicament of Belonging in Kenya (Joint event with the Horn of Africa seminar series)
  Keren Weitzberg (UCL)
  African History & Politics Seminars

Tuesday 30 January 2018

• 13:00 - Chinese refugee law and policy
  Dr Lili Song (University of the South Pacific)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Wednesday 31 January 2018

• 17:00 - Addressing statelessness in Europe and the nexus with forced migration
  Chris Nash (European Network on Statelessness)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Addressing statelessness in Europe and the nexus with forced migration
  Chris Nash (European Network on Statelessness)
  Public Seminar Series

Thursday 1 February 2018

• 17:00 - Freedom by Force: Why Foreign-Imposed Democracy Succeeds or Fails
  Jonathan Monten (University College London)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series

Friday 2 February 2018

• 13:00 - Imagining the future: Cochin’s residential flat, ‘a new frontier of investment
  Ikuno Naka
  ODID DPhil Research Seminars
• 16:00 - ‘Land and the origins of British India’
  John Marriott (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 5 February 2018

• 12:30 - Title TBC
  Dr Tom Thornton
  Oxford Anthropology and International Development
• 13:00 - Multidimensional Poverty Indices for Children from Household Surveys: Lessons and Ways Forward
  A sandwich lunch is available on a first come, first served basis.
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Martin Evans (Overseas Development Institute)
  Archive: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The Political economy of independent Rwanda in historical perspective
  Pritish Behuria (Manchester)
  African History & Politics Seminars

Tuesday 6 February 2018

• 14:00 - The health reception of children in Danish asylum centres: a qualitative study in its early phase
  Amina Barghadouch (University of Copenhagen)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Wednesday 7 February 2018

• 17:00 - Accessing asylum in Europe: extraterritorial border controls meet refugee rights
  Dr Violeta Moreno-Lax (Queen Mary University of London)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Accessing asylum in Europe: extraterritorial border controls meet refugee rights
  Dr Violeta Moreno-Lax (Queen Mary University of London)
  Public Seminar Series

Friday 9 February 2018

• 13:00 - About a cheap, illegitimate company: ethnographic exploration of work in new 'company jobs' in New Delhi, India
  Garima Jaju (DPhil in International Development, University of Oxford)
  ODID DPhil Research Seminars
• 16:00 - ‘“Among these incongruous battalia, are represented the hopes of the world”: gold rushes and global history’
  Benjamin Mountford (La Trobe), Stephen Tuffnell (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 12 February 2018

• 13:00 - The Cost of Fitting In
  A sandwich lunch is available on a first come, first served basis.
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Jonathan Wolff (Blavatnik School of Government)
  Archive: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Persistent perceptions: High modern techniques, neo-liberal times, and enduring subjects in Burundi’s rural Rural Integrated Villages!
  Yolanda Weima (York University, Canada)
  African History & Politics Seminars

Tuesday 13 February 2018

• 13:00 - To Whom Should We Grant Asylum? Liberal Democracy and the Right to Refugeehood
  Felix Bender (Central European University)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Wednesday 14 February 2018

• 17:00 - Of rights and borders: human trafficking and contemporary forms of slavery in European law
  Dr Vladislava Stoyanova (Lund University)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Of rights and borders: human trafficking and contemporary forms of slavery in European law
  Dr Vladislava Stoyanova (Lund University)
  Public Seminar Series

Thursday 15 February 2018

• 17:00 - Special Lecture: Palestine/Israel: history is undecided...
  Ambassador Afif Safieh
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Friday 16 February 2018

• 13:00 - How are migrant bodies managed in the industrial landscape of Delhi NCR?
  Soumya Mishra
  ODID DPhil Research Seminars
• 15:00 - Africa and Decolonisation workshop
  Various Speakers
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 19 February 2018

• 13:00 - Income and Multidimensional Poverty in Indonesia
  A sandwich lunch is available on a first come, first served basis.
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Usha Kanagaratnam (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative)
  Archive: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Book Launch: The Struggle over State Power in Zimbabwe: Law and Politics since 1950
  George Karekwaivanane (Edinburgh)
  African History & Politics Seminars

Tuesday 20 February 2018

• 13:00 - The situation of refugees in Hungary after 2015
  Felix Bender (Central European University)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Wednesday 21 February 2018

• 17:00 - The child in international refugee law
  Dr Jason Pobjoy (Blackstone Chambers)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The child in international refugee law
  Dr Jason Pobjoy (Blackstone Chambers)
  Public Seminar Series

Thursday 22 February 2018

• 17:00 - Whose Peace? Local Ownership and United Nations Peacekeeping
  Sarah von Billerbeck (University of Reading)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series
• 17:00 - Early-Life Undernourishment in Developing Countries: Prevalence, Impacts over the Life Cycle and Determinants
  Professor Jere Behrman (University of Pennsylvania)
  Young Lives/CSAE Seminar

Friday 23 February 2018

• 16:00 - ‘The politics of the public sphere: print culture in colonial Lagos, 1880s-1940s’
  Katharina Oke (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 26 February 2018

• 13:00 - Incorporating a Delphi Method within Poverty Measurement: A Case Study of West Java, Indonesia
  A sandwich lunch is available on a first come, first served basis.
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Putu Natih (University of Oxford)
  Archive: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Book Launch: Turbulence and Order in Economic Development: Institutions and Economic Transformation in Tanzania and Vietnam
  CANCELLED
  Hazel Gray (Edinburgh)
  African History & Politics Seminars

Tuesday 27 February 2018

• 12:00 - Special Lecture: Dialogue in action: the witness of St Francis of Assisi
  Cardinal Vincent Nichols (Archbishop of Westminster)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 13:00 - The impact of Congolese refugees on social cohesion and labour market outcomes in Uganda
  Jana Kuhnt (University of Goettingen)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series
• 14:00 - Material Deprivation and Intra-household Allocation across Europe
  This event has been postponed due to the ongoing strike action at the University.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Tania Burchardt (London School of Economics)
  Archive: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series

Wednesday 28 February 2018

• 17:00 - The IDP in international law: debates, developments and prospects
  Dr David James Cantor (Refugee Law Initiative)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The IDP in international law: debates, developments and prospects
  Dr David James Cantor (Refugee Law Initiative)
  Public Seminar Series

Friday 2 March 2018

• 10:00 - Global & Imperial History graduate student research presentations (D.Phil.)
  Various Speakers
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 13:00 - Agenda setting and policy adoption for the 2008 Chilean pension reform
  Luis Hernan Vargas Faulbraum
  ODID DPhil Research Seminars

Monday 5 March 2018

• 13:00 - Building a Child MPI
  A sandwich lunch is available on a first come, first served basis.
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Ana Vaz (University of Oxford)
  Archive: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Party loyalists and political violence in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic
  CANCELLED
  Sa'eed Husaini (Oxford)
  African History & Politics Seminars

Wednesday 7 March 2018

• 17:00 - No country of asylum: 'legitimizing' Lebanon's rejection of the 1951 Refugee Convention
  Professor Maja Janmyr (University of Oslo)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - No country of asylum: 'legitimizing' Lebanon's rejection of the 1951 Refugee Convention
  Professor Maja Janmyr (University of Oslo)
  Public Seminar Series

Friday 9 March 2018

• 10:00 - Global & Imperial History graduate student research presentations (M.St.)
  Various Speakers
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 13:00 - Agenda setting and policy adoption for the 2008 Chilean pension reform
  Luis Vargas Faulbaum (ODID)
  ODID DPhil Research Seminars

Monday 19 March 2018

• 13:00 - Child poverty, public expenditure, and social policy in South Asia
  Dr Abdul Alim (UNICEF)

Monday 23 April 2018

• 17:00 - Party loyalists and political voice in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic
  Sa'eed Husaini (Oxford)
  African History & Politics Seminars

Tuesday 24 April 2018

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Ayat Hamdan (University of Exeter)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Wednesday 25 April 2018

• 17:00 - ‘Mohammed Marmaduke Pickthall: Qur’an translator and novelist’
  Dr Peter Clark (SOAS)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 26 April 2018

• 17:00 - 'The right to freedom of religion: cases and controversies’
  The Lord Pannick QC (Distinguished Fellow)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Friday 27 April 2018

• 13:00 - The rise of “reconnection”: studying immigration enforcement in voluntary sector responses to street-based homelessness
  Jennifer Barrett (University of Oxford)
  ODID DPhil Research Seminars

Monday 30 April 2018

• 17:00 - Book Launch: Turbulence and Order in Economic Development: Institutions and Economic Transformation in Tanzania and Vietnam (OUP)
  Hazel Gray (Edinburgh)
  African History & Politics Seminars

Tuesday 1 May 2018

• 13:00 - Unravelling memories of family separation among Sri Lankan Tamils resettled in Australia, 1983-2000
  Niro Kandasamy (University of Melbourne)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series
• 17:00 - Lecture: Arab Media in the New Age
  George Hawatmeh ((Jordan Radio and Television Corporation))

Wednesday 2 May 2018

• 17:00 - ‘Recognising the true Lord: a Confucian approach to Islamic theology in the writings of the Chinese Muslim scholar Liu Zhi’
  Dr James Frankel (Hong Kong)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Book launch for ‘Syria: The Making and Unmaking of a Refuge State’
  Professor Dawn Chatty (University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 3 May 2018

• 17:00 - Film screening: Nasser's Republic, The making of Modern Egypt
  Michal Goldman (Director)

Friday 4 May 2018

• 13:00 - Deciphering EU-China diplomatic relationship-building
  Lucie Qian Xia (University of Oxford)
  ODID DPhil Research Seminars

Monday 7 May 2018

• 17:00 - The South African Special Branch v The New African 1962-4: Censorship by harassment of a radical journal
  James Currey (Founder of James Currey, publisher)
  African History & Politics Seminars

Tuesday 8 May 2018

• 13:00 - The Fourth Pillar? Education and forced migration
  Dr Jacqueline Mosselson (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Wednesday 9 May 2018

• 17:00 - ‘Al-Azhar and the Ulama’
  Professor Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen (Copenhagen)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Iraqi Migrants in Syria: The Crisis before the Storm
  Dr Sophia Hoffmann (Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Friday 11 May 2018

• 13:00 - JOB TALK - ACADEMIA Discussion with senior faculty members and recent graduates with positions in academia
  TBA
  ODID DPhil Research Seminars
• 17:00 - Film screening: 1948
  Professor Avi Shlaim (MEC Emeritus Fellow), Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, Oxford)

Monday 14 May 2018

• 17:00 - Book Launch: Economies after colonialism: Ghana and the struggle for power (CUP)
  Lindsay Whitfield (Roskilde)
  African History & Politics Seminars

Tuesday 15 May 2018

• 13:00 - Defining political human security: the case of Rohingya refugees in India
  Ashvina Patel (Southern Methodist University)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series
• 17:15 - Advancing Human Development
  Please note change of date!
  Professor Frances Stewart (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Development Studies Annual Lectures

Wednesday 16 May 2018

• 17:00 - ‘Speculative men: thinking analogically about Islam and Christian sectarianism in seventeenth and eighteenth century England’
  Professor Ros Ballaster
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Syrian labour in the Turkish economy
  Emre Eren Korkmaz (University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Friday 18 May 2018

• 13:00 - Space to be Muslim: Exploring the ways second- and third-generation British Muslim women experience and negotiate their gender, faith, and identity in the UK today
  Katie Washington (University of Oxford)
  ODID DPhil Research Seminars
• 17:00 - Film Screening: Through Ottoman Eyes
  Umran Safter (Director)

Monday 21 May 2018

• 17:00 - The Gulf and the Horn: Changing geographies of security interdependence and competing visions of regional order
  Harry Verhoeven (Georgetown University in Qatar)
  African History & Politics Seminars

Tuesday 22 May 2018

• 13:00 - Comparative perspectives on the search and rescue of asylum seekers at sea
  Dr Daniel Ghezelbash (Macquarie Law School)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Wednesday 23 May 2018

• 14:00 - Women's Rights Research Seminar: The Archaeology of Experience of Domestic Violence against women in Iran
  Shahla Tizro (York St John University)
• 17:00 - ‘1918: The fall of the Ottomans and the beginning of a century of conflict’
  Professor Eugene Rogan
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Islamic Traditions of Refuge in the Crises of Iraq and Syria
  Dr Tahir Zaman (University of Sussex)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Friday 25 May 2018

• 13:00 - Left-legalism: civil rights groups in India and the practice of fact-finding
  Ankita Pandey (University of Oxford)
  ODID DPhil Research Seminars

Tuesday 29 May 2018

• 17:00 - 'The moral economy: why good incentives are no substitutes for good citizens’
  Professor Samuel Bowles (Sante Fe Institute)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Wednesday 30 May 2018

• 14:00 - Women's Rights Research Seminar: Tale of two Omani women
  Deena Al Asfoor (St Catherine's College)
• 17:00 - ‘The formation of a Turco-Islamic world region in and around the Oipchaq Steppe in the early modern age’
  Dr Joo-Yup Lee (Toronto )
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Outsourcing Border Control: The Politics and Practice of Contracted Visa Policy in Morocco
  Dr Federica Infantino (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Friday 1 June 2018

• 13:00 - Rethinking dependency: Aid, labour markets and Dutch disease effects in LIC context
  Jamelia Harris (University of Oxford)
  ODID DPhil Research Seminars

Wednesday 6 June 2018

• 17:00 - ‘Humanitarianism, gender and religion in forced migration’
  Dr Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - “Let language not betray us”: immigration, enforcement and modern slavery | Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture 2018
  Professor Bridget Anderson (University of Bristol)
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures

Thursday 7 June 2018

• 17:00 - Annual George Antonius Memorial Lecture
  Moncef Marzouki (Former President of Tunisia)

Friday 8 June 2018

• 13:00 - The Enterprise of Politics: Rise of Political Consultancy Firms in India
  Amogh Dhar Sharma (University of Oxford)
  ODID DPhil Research Seminars

Monday 11 June 2018

• 09:00 - Methodological advances and empirical applications in economic growth, regional development and technological change among developing economies
  Various Speakers
  ODID Conferences and Workshops
• 12:30 - The REF policy for Open Access - why and what?
  Claire Fraser (Research England)
  Open Scholarship
• 14:00 - Help! I'm an author, get me out of here
  Sally Rumsey (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship

Tuesday 12 June 2018

• 11:30 - Play the Publishing Trap game
  Jane Secker (UK Copyright Literacy), Chris Morrison (UK Copyright Literacy)
  Open Scholarship
• 14:00 - NIHR Open Access policy and progress
  Justin Riordan-Jones (Department of Health & Social Care)
  Open Scholarship

Wednesday 13 June 2018

• 11:30 - Openness and humanities
  Pip Willcox (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 12:15 - Digital theses and open access
  Sarah Barkla (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 14:00 - Latest developments in altmetrics
  Jean Liu (Altmetric)
  Open Scholarship
• 14:00 - Lecture-The Question of Judeo-Arabic: Nation, Partition, and the Linguistic Imaginary
  Ella Shohat (New York University)
• 17:00 - Book Event: On the Arab Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements
  Ella Shohat (New York University)

Thursday 14 June 2018

• 10:45 - Publishers, papers and peer review
  Various Speakers
  Open Scholarship
• 14:30 - Workshop: Memory, Memoirs, and History
  Ella Shohat (New York University), Professor Avi Shlaim (MEC Emeritus Fellow)

Friday 15 June 2018

• 11:00 - The EU and open access: OpenAire and Horizon 2020
  Frank Manista (JISC)
  Open Scholarship
• 13:00 - Open Access: A pubisher's perspective
  Various Speakers
  Open Scholarship

Wednesday 20 June 2018

• 17:00 - Barbara Harrell-Bond: A life not ordinary | Refugee Week film screening
  TBA
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures

Thursday 21 June 2018

• 14:00 - Bodleian iSkills: Open Access Oxford - what's happening?
  Andy Kernot (Bodleian Libraries), Juliet Ralph (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Monday 16 July 2018

• 09:00 - Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative - Summer School 2018
  A demonstrable knowledge of Stata is an essential pre-requisite for attending the course. Every attendant to the Summer School will need to have Stata 10 or higher installed on their laptop. The software will not be provided by the Summer School.
  Professor Sabina Alkire (University of Oxford), Dr Usha Kanagaratnam (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative), Dr Bilal Malaeb (Institute of Global Affairs, London School of Economics and Political Science), Dr Christian Oldiges (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative), Dr Ana Vaz (University of Oxford), Dr Nicolai Suppa (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative), Dr Ricardo Nogales (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative)

Monday 23 July 2018

• 12:30 - Bodleian iSkills: Open Access Oxford - what's happening?
  Judith Ames (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford), Juliet Ralph (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Wednesday 10 October 2018

• 17:00 - 'Islamic charities since the 1970s: a record of growth and suppression’
  Mr Jonathan Benthall (UCL)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - To be or not to be: questioning the value of refugee status
  Dr Georgia Cole (University of Cambridge)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 11 October 2018

• 16:30 - Local Models of Economy
  Professor Stephen Gudeman (University of Minnesota)
  ODID Special Lectures & Seminars

Friday 12 October 2018

• 16:00 - ‘War/Time: Global Histories of a Local Conflict in the Horn of Africa’
  Richard Reid (St Cross, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 15 October 2018

• 13:00 - Multidimensional poverty reduction in India: changes over time
  A sandwich lunch is available on a first come, first served basis.
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Sabina Alkire (University of Oxford)
  Archive: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series

Tuesday 16 October 2018

• 13:00 - Ransom tales: the refugee as storyteller
  Dr Carrie Dawson (Dalhousie University)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Wednesday 17 October 2018

• 17:00 - ‘”Becoming Muslim”: The archaeology and trade in Eastern Ethiopia’
  Professor Timothy Insoll (Exeter)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 18 October 2018

• 14:00 - Ghar Mein Kām Hai (There is Work in the House): When Female Factory Workers become ‘Coopted Domestic Labour’
  Thomas Chambers (Oxford Brookes University), Ayesha Asari (Oxford Brookes University)
  Social Life of Work Seminar Series
• 17:00 - In a troubled and polarized Middle-East: challenges for Palestine refugees and UNRWA | Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture 2018
  Pierre Krähenbühl (UNRWA)
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures

Friday 19 October 2018

• 16:00 - ‘Celebrating Religious Diversity: Early Modern Russia and the Power of Typological Thinking’
  Valerie Kivelson (Michigan)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - MEC Friday Seminar - Lords of the Desert: Britain’s struggle with America to dominate the Middle East
  James Barr ((King's College London))
  MEC Friday Seminar Series

Monday 22 October 2018

• 13:00 - Poverty traps and child well-being in South Africa
  A sandwich lunch is available on a first come, first served basis.
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Marisa von Fintel (Stellenbosch University)
  Archive: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series

Tuesday 23 October 2018

• 11:30 - Bodleian iSkills: Open Access Oxford - what's happening?
  Sarah Barkla (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Juliet Ralph (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 13:00 - What digitalization of humanitarian operations looks like: data, maps and new technologies in Zaatari refugee camp, Jordan
  Léa Macias (EHESS (Paris))
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series
• 17:00 - Book launch: Khalil Maleki -The Human Face of Iranian Socialism
  Homa Katouzian (Iran Heritage Foundation Research Fellow, St Antony's)

Wednesday 24 October 2018

• 14:00 - Women's Rights Research Seminar- Between Love and Lineage: Elopement, Rights and Violence in an Afghan Valley
  Naysan Adlparvar (Yale University)
  Women's Rights Research Seminar
• 17:00 - ‘The world in the year 1000: new connections within and beyond the Islamic world’
  Professor Valerie Hansen (Yale)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Asylum after empire: postcolonial legacies in the politics of asylum seeking
  Dr Lucy Mayblin (University of Warwick)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 25 October 2018

• 10:00 - Open Access: Digital Theses and open access
  Sarah Barkla (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 11:00 - Open Access: Your thesis, copyright and ORA
  Jason Partridge (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), David Watson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 14:00 - Ethical disregard among Indian migrant workers in a Chinese trade economy
  Ka-Kin Cheuk (University of Oxford and Leiden University)
  Social Life of Work Seminar Series

Friday 26 October 2018

• 16:00 - ‘Locating the Silk Road(s) in History and Today’
  Valerie Hansen (Yale)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - MEC Friday Seminar - Preventing Palestine: A political history from Camp David to Oslo
  Seth Anziska (Mohamed S. Farsi-Polonsky Lecturer in Jewish-Muslim Relations, University College London)
  MEC Friday Seminar Series

Monday 29 October 2018

• 17:00 - Zimbabwe’s 2018 Election Roundtable
  Sara-Rich Dorman (Senior Lecturer in Politics and IR, the University of Edinburgh), Farai Chipato (PhD candidate, Queen Mary), Nic Cheeseman (Professor of Democracy, the University of Birmingham)
  African History & Politics Seminars

Tuesday 30 October 2018

• 13:00 - A spatial model of internal displacement and forced migration
  Jon Echevarria (University of Basque Country)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series
• 17:00 - Book Launch: Christian Martyrs under Islam
  Christian C. Sahner (Associate Professor of Islamic History, Faculty of Oriental Studies)

Wednesday 31 October 2018

• 17:00 - ‘Jeddah 100 years ago…through the French lense’
  Dr Louis Blin (French Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - The business of modern slavery: forced migration and forced labour in a failed state
  Brad Blitz (Middlesex University London)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 1 November 2018

• 14:00 - Labour, laziness and resistance to cash transfers
  Hannah Dawson (ISCS/ODID), Elizaveta Fouksman (University of Oxford)
  Social Life of Work Seminar Series

Friday 2 November 2018

• 14:00 - Knowledge Production in Colonial and Post-colonial History
  In association with the ‘Comparing the Copperbelt’ ERC funded project.
  Various Speakers
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - MEC Friday Seminar - Iraq after the elections: A new beginning? (Panel discussion)
  Renad Mansour (Chatham House), Harith Hasan (Central European University), Hayder al-Khoei (University of Exeter)
  MEC Friday Seminar Series

Monday 5 November 2018

• 13:00 - A meta-analysis of Oxfam’s women’s empowerment projects
  A sandwich lunch is available on a first come, first served basis.
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Simone Lombardini (Oxfam)
  Archive: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series

Tuesday 6 November 2018

• 13:00 - The Dublin IV recast: A new institutionalist approach to explaining policy continuity
  Tamara Tubakovic (University of Melbourne)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Wednesday 7 November 2018

• 17:00 - ‘The Russian conquest of Central Asia in Persianate historiography’
  Dr Alexander Morrison
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - International society and the risk of statelessness
  Dr Kelly Staples (University of Leicester)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 8 November 2018

• 14:00 - The politics of work in a post-conflict state: Youth, Labour and Violence in Sierra Leone
  Luisa Enria (University of Bath)
  Social Life of Work Seminar Series

Friday 9 November 2018

• 16:00 - ‘The First World War and the Reimagination of Empire in the British and French Caribbean’
  Michael Joseph (Pembroke, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Film screening and book discussion - Transnationalism in Iranian Political Thought: The Fabulous Life and Thought of Ahmad Fardid
  Ali Mirsepassi (Albert Gallatin Research Excellence Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, New York University)
  MEC Friday Seminar Series

Monday 12 November 2018

• 13:00 - Defining and Measuring Health Poverty
  A sandwich lunch is available on a first come, first served basis.
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Philip Clarke (University of Oxford)
  Archive: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Between Conservatism and Pragmatism: Crafting a human rights-based approach to HIV/AIDS related services for women in the Middle East
  Dr Kamiar Alaei (Co-president, Institute for International Health and Education)
  Women's Rights Research Seminar
• 16:00 - Reducing Poverty and Building Peace in Colombia: Inextricably Linked Processes
  Juan Manuel Santos (Former President of Colombia and Nobel Peace Laureate)
  ODID Distinguished Speaker Series

Tuesday 13 November 2018

• 13:00 - When does harmonization backfire? Understanding the conditions that transformed the Family Reunification Directive into a tool that protects migrants and refugees' rights in the Netherlands
  Virginia Passalacqua (European University Institute)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Wednesday 14 November 2018

• 17:00 - ‘The political legacy of Islamic conquest’
  Dr Faisal Z. Ahmed (Princeton )
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Solidarity, vulnerability, and the labour of refugee activism
  Dr Jonathan Darling (Durham University)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 15 November 2018

• 14:00 - Skill, work and gendered identity in contemporary India: The business of delivering home-cooked food for domestic consumption
  Prof Nandini Gooptu (University of Oxford)
  Social Life of Work Seminar Series

Friday 16 November 2018

• 16:00 - ‘Comparing Russian Settler Colonialism’
  Alexander Morrison (New College, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - And then God created the Middle East and said let there be breaking news
  Karl Sharro (Architect, satirist and Middle East commentator)
  MEC Friday Seminar Series

Monday 19 November 2018

• 13:00 - Measurement of Multidimensional Inequality of Opportunity in India: changes across regions and time
  A sandwich lunch is available on a first come, first served basis.
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Sayli Javadekar (University of Geneva)
  Archive: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series

Tuesday 20 November 2018

• 13:00 - Renewable energy in humanitarian contexts and the UN Global Plan of Action: embedding research into international policy?
  Sarah Rosenberg-Jansen (University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Wednesday 21 November 2018

• 17:00 - ‘The politics of Islamic law: colonialism, mobility, translation’
  Dr Iza Hussin (Cambridge)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - The Kindertransport: Contesting memory
  Dr Jennifer Craig-Norton (University of Southampton)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 22 November 2018

• 14:00 - When the day hustle goes down, the night hustle goes up’: Temporalities of the hustle economy in Mathare, Nairobi
  Tatiana Thieme (University College London)
  Social Life of Work Seminar Series

Friday 23 November 2018

• 09:30 - TMCD-SBS Workshop
  Various Speakers
• 13:00 - Protecting Migrant Children: In Search of Best Practice | Seminar and Book Launch
  Prof Lenni Benson (New York Law School), Prof Mary Crock (University of Sydney), Dr Mimi Zou (University of Oxford)
• 16:00 - ‘Debating the Great Divergence from the Demise of the Ming (1618-44) to the Industrialization of Western Europe (1756-1846)’
  Patrick O’Brien (St Antony’s, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The future of Israel, its Arab minority and implication for Palestine
  Marwan Bishara (Al Jazeera/St Antony's College)
  MEC Friday Seminar Series

Monday 26 November 2018

• 13:00 - Towards a Global Asset Indicator: re-assessing the asset indicator in the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index
  A sandwich lunch is available on a first come, first served basis.
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Frank Vollmer (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative)
  Archive: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series

Tuesday 27 November 2018

• 13:00 - The Rohingyas in Myanmar and Bangladesh: A Case of “Subhuman”
  Professor Nasir Uddin (Chittagong University)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series
• 16:00 - Look Back in Anger: Visuality and Violence in Contemporary Women’s Movement in India
  Mallarika Sinha Roy (Centre for Women’s Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University)
  ODID Special Lectures & Seminars

Wednesday 28 November 2018

• 17:00 - ‘Siyasa Shari-iyya: some insights from nineteenth-century Egypt’
  Professor Khaled Fahmy (American University of Cairo )
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Border rescue
  Dr Kieran Oberman (University of Edinburgh)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Sheikh Zayed Book Award: Contemporary Arab Fiction - Event cancelled
  Khalil Sweileh, Abdel Rasheed Mahmoudi

Friday 30 November 2018

• 16:00 - Empire of Accumulation: Consumer Value and the Labor Question in British and American Nineteenth Century Expansion
  Bronwen Everill (Cambridge)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Exhibition and Panel Discussion: The Palestinian History Tapestry
  Shelagh Weir (Former Curator, British Museum), Jan.Lady Chalmers (Palestinian History Tapestry), Doaa Hammoudeh (St Antony’s College), Karl Sabbagh (Documentary maker and writer)
  MEC Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 5 December 2018

• 17:00 - Future of Salafism Conference - Opening Session
  Professor Masooda Bano (University of Oxford), Dr Saud Al-Sarhan (KFCRIS)
  Future of Salafism Conference

Tuesday 8 January 2019

• 09:00 - International Society for Bhutan Studies (ISBS) Inaugural Conference
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA

Wednesday 9 January 2019

• 15:00 - The First Ten Years of Democracy: Reflections from Bhutan
  Dasho Tshering Tobgay (Former Prime Minister of Bhutan)
• 17:00 - Development with Integrity: Bhutan’s development and its Gross National Happiness Index
  Dasho Karma Ura (President of the Center for Bhutan Studies & Gross National Happiness)

Monday 14 January 2019

• 13:00 - Women's empowerment in Tunisia: a discrete choice experiment to elicit weights for a multidimensional index
  A sandwich lunch is available on a first come, first served basis.
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Natalie Quinn (University of Oxford)
  Archive: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series

Tuesday 15 January 2019

• 13:00 - Employment barriers of Syrian refugees in Lebanon
  Dr Saja Al Zoubi (University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series
• 14:15 - Israel Studies Seminar - When Climate Takes Command: Jewish-Zionist Scientific Approaches to Climate in Palestine
  Ms. Netta Cohen ((Oxford))
  Israel Studies Seminar series Hilary Term 2019

Wednesday 16 January 2019

• 17:00 - Transnationalism, return visits, home and belonging: second generation from refugee backgrounds
  Professor Alice Bloch (University of Manchester)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - "Becoming Muslim”: The archaeology of Islamisation and trade in Eastern Ethiopia
  Professor Timothy Insoll (Exeter)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Friday 18 January 2019

• 16:00 - ‘Global science, national horizons: paleontology, astronomy and Antarctic research in South Africa’
  Saul Dubow (Cambridge)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - MEC Friday Seminar - Applying shari'a in modern times: Some reflections from 19th century Egypt
  Khaled Fahmy (Cambridge University)
  Middle East Centre Friday seminars Hilary Term 2019

Monday 21 January 2019

• 13:00 - Assessing deprivation with ordinal variables: depth sensitivity and poverty aversion
  A sandwich lunch is available on a first come, first served basis.
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Gaston Yalonetzky (University of Leeds)
  Archive: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series

Tuesday 22 January 2019

• 14:00 - The Cast(e) of the Colonial Police: Constables and Chaukidars in Colonial Bengal
  Partha Shil (Trinity College, Cambridge)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 23 January 2019

• 17:00 - Refugees and the UK labour market
  Dr Carlos Vargas-Silva (COMPAS, University of Oxford), Dr Isabel Ruiz (Harris Manchester College / Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The ontological (in)security of similarity: Islamism in Saudi foreign policy
  Dr May Darwich (Durham)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Friday 25 January 2019

• 16:00 - ‘Redefining the Caliphate: Indian Pan-Islamism in the early twentieth century’
  Faridah Zaman (Somerville, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - MEC Friday Seminar - The Middle East: Should We Give Up?
  Joost Hiltermann (International Crisis Group)
  Middle East Centre Friday seminars Hilary Term 2019

Monday 28 January 2019

• 17:00 - Disrupting Warfare: How we use technology to help mitigate the effects of violent conflict on civilians in Syria and beyond.
  John Jaeger (Co-Founder & CEO, Hala Systems)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series

Tuesday 29 January 2019

• 13:00 - Why Muslim men also care: ethnographic perspectives on ways of loving and caring among young Syrian men in exile in Amman
  Emilie Mortensen (Aarhus University)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series
• 14:00 - The Economics of Religion in India
  Sriya Iyer (University of Cambridge)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - MEC Seminar - The Rise of the Egyptian Middle Class: Socio-Economic Mobility and Public Discontent from Nasser to Sadat
  Relli Shechter (St Antony’s College)

Wednesday 30 January 2019

• 17:00 - Building inclusive cities: emerging learning from a knowledge exchange with UK cities
  Jacqueline Broadhead (COMPAS, University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Professor Hugh Kennedy (SOAS)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Friday 1 February 2019

• 16:00 - ‘Cash Rules: Money and the British Empire in the Age of Revolutions’
  Andrew Edwards (Brasenose, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - MEC Friday Seminar - European policy on the Middle East: Making a difference?
  Nick Westcott (Director, Royal African Society)
  Middle East Centre Friday seminars Hilary Term 2019

Monday 4 February 2019

• 13:00 - Child poverty in South Asia
  A sandwich lunch is available on a first come, first served basis.
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Sabina Alkire (University of Oxford)
  Archive: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series

Tuesday 5 February 2019

• 13:00 - Solidarity as co-responsibility: EU member states and the pursuit of justice in the field of refugee protection
  Eleonora Milazzo (European University Institute)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series
• 14:00 - Unfixed land and the making of Contemporary India
  Nikita Sud (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 6 February 2019

• 17:00 - From pledges to implementation: exploring local government responses for urban refugees in Ethiopia
  Annabel Mwangi (UNHCR Ethiopia)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - History in tables: Muʿīn al-Dīn Naṭanzī's “synoptic account” of the Timurid history and its complete manuscript
  Dr İlker Evrim Binbaş (Bonn)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Friday 8 February 2019

• 16:00 - ‘The Colonization of Elephants in the Making of Modern Malaya, c.1500-1900’
  Faizah Zakaria (Nanyang Technological University)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - MEC Friday Seminar - The Iraq War Inquiry: a study in contemporary political, diplomatic, military and reconstruction history
  Sir John Chilcot
  Middle East Centre Friday seminars Hilary Term 2019

Monday 11 February 2019

• 10:00 - Open Access and Plan S: a talk by David Sweeney
  David Sweeney (Research England)
  Open Scholarship
• 13:00 - Material deprivation and intra-household allocation across Europe
  A sandwich lunch is available on a first come, first served basis.
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Tania Burchardt (London School of Economics)
  Archive: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 15:00 - Social Bonding in Diplomacy: Face-to-Face Interactions and Rituals in the 4th Image
  Nicholas J Wheeler (University of Birmingham)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series

Tuesday 12 February 2019

• 13:00 - What is owed to refugees when attributing responsibilities to states in institutionalized responsibility sharing regimes?
  Lukas Dziedzic (Tilburg University)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series
• 14:00 - Connected Histories? Arabia, India and the Architecture of Medieval Ethiopia
  Finbarr Barry Flood (Director, Silsila: Center for Material Histories, New York University)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 13 February 2019

• 17:00 - Urban refugee economies in Ethiopia
  Professor Alison Brown (Cardiff University), Dr Peter Mackie (Cardiff University)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The Mongol empire and Islamisation
  Professor Andrew Peacock (St Andrews)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Friday 15 February 2019

• 14:00 - Broadcasting Decolonisation: The Radio Boom and the End of Empire
  Dr Peter Brooke (Wolfson, Oxford), Professor Simon Potter (Bristol), Dr Kristin Roth-Ey (UCL), Stephen Hocking (Department for Continuing Education, Oxford), Dr Massoumeh Torfeh (School of Oriental and African Studies)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - MEC Friday Seminar - title tbc
  Abbas Kadhim (Atlantic Council)
  Middle East Centre Friday seminars Hilary Term 2019

Monday 18 February 2019

• 13:00 - How effective are CCT programs in reducing multiple deprivations? Some insights from Philippines’ 4Ps program
  A sandwich lunch is available on a first come, first served basis.
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Suman Seth (University of Leeds)
  Archive: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series

Tuesday 19 February 2019

• 13:00 - Network analysis techniques for refugee and forced migration research
  Dr Alex Tasker (University of Sussex)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series
• 14:00 - What's the Party like? The Normative state of the Politcial Party in Souh Asia
  Change of venue - Syndicate Room - Old Main Building, St Antony's College
  Udit Bhatia (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 20 February 2019

• 14:00 - Women's Rights Research Seminar - From Kurdistan to Europe: Kurdish Literary, Artistic and Cultural Activism by Kurdish Women Intellectuals
  Dr Özlem Belçim Galip (Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow, The School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford)
• 17:00 - The accidental city of Kakuma, Kenya: humanitarian urbanism and the development of the refugee camp environment
  Dr Bram J Jansen (Wageningen University)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - British-Islamic identity: third-generation Bangladeshis from East London
  Dr Aminul Hoque (Goldsmiths)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Friday 22 February 2019

• 16:00 - Physicians, agents and collectors: the importation and study of natural specimens from the Middle East in seventeenth-century Europe
  Federica Gigante (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - MEC Friday Seminar - Struggles for Justice during the Arab Uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia
  Heba Morayef (Amnesty International)
  Middle East Centre Friday seminars Hilary Term 2019

Monday 25 February 2019

• 13:00 - In quest of a better life: international labour migration and poverty in rural Bangladesh
  A sandwich lunch is available on a first come, first served basis.
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Ricardo Nogales (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative), Dr Christian Oldiges (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative)
  Archive: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Roundtable on ‘Protest and Violence in Post-Coup Zimbabwe’
  Shari Eppel (Director, Solidarity Peace Trust), Dr Miles Tendi (University of Oxford)
  ODID Special Lectures & Seminars

Tuesday 26 February 2019

• 14:00 - Continuity in mind: Imagination and migration on India and the Gulf
  Change of Venue - Syndicate Room, Old Main Building, St Antony's College
  Thomas Chambers (Oxford Brookes University)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 27 February 2019

• 17:00 - Sudanese constellations of home: refugee NGOs, social networks and urban homemaking in Cairo
  Dr Anita Fábos (Clark University)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The making of Ottoman kingship at the dawn of empire
  Dr Christopher Markiewicz (University of Birmingham)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 28 February 2019

• 16:00 - The violence of humour and ridicule in typewriter and tweet diplomacy
  Akos Kopper (Head of Department of International Relations and European Studies, ELTE University, Budapest)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series
• 17:00 - MEC Seminar - Revolution in Iran 1978-1979: Assessments and Reassessments upon the Fortieth Anniversary
  Touraj Atabaki (International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam), Stephanie Cronin (University of Oxford), Siavush Ranjbar Daemi (University of St Andrews)

Friday 1 March 2019

• 10:00 - Global and Imperial History graduate student research presentations
  Various Speakers
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 13:30 - TMCD & SBS Joint Workshop on "Innovation and Development"
  Dr Garang Dut (University of Oxford, Said Business School), Dr Hui Yan (TMCD and Shanghai University), Brandon Chye Zhi Han (Oxford Department of International Development), Anna Isabelle Villafuerte (Oxford Department of International Development)
• 17:00 - MEC Friday Seminar - Lebanon and the twenty-first century: populism, neoliberalism, and their discontents
  Andrew Arsan (University of Cambridge)
  Middle East Centre Friday seminars Hilary Term 2019

Monday 4 March 2019

• 13:00 - Taking into account gender and intra-household dynamics: Oxfam’s experience of assessing resilience capacities at the household and individual levels
  A sandwich lunch is available on a first come, first served basis.
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Ms Alexia Pretari (Oxfam)
  Archive: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 14:00 - The Convergence of Open: Open Access, Education, Data & Culture
  Martin Poulter (Wikimedia UK)
  Open Scholarship

Tuesday 5 March 2019

• 13:00 - Who illegally migrates and why? Descriptive evidence from the Comoros archipelago
  Jules Gazeaud (CERDI)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series
• 14:00 - Before the Nation-State: Christian Internationalism and the Inter-War Years
  Sneha Krishnan (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Open Access and Monographs: publishers, policies, practicalities
  Various Speakers
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - MEC Seminar: Iran and sanctions
  Zep Kalb (UCLA), James Landale (BBC)

Wednesday 6 March 2019

• 16:15 - Paywall: the movie
  Various Speakers
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - Exploring gendered ‘vulnerability’: Syrian refugee men and humanitarianism in urban Jordan
  Dr Lewis Turner (Arnold Bergstraesser Institute)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The Qur’an in English: challenges and choices for Surat an-Nisa
  Professor Bruce Lawrence (Duke University), Professor Miriam Cooke (Duke)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 7 March 2019

• 15:30 - Learned Societies and the transition to Open Access
  Various Speakers
  Open Scholarship
• 16:00 - Digital Transformation of the Commonwealth
  Nabeel Goheer (Assistant Secretary General, Commonwealth Secretariat)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series

Friday 8 March 2019

• 10:00 - Global and Imperial History graduate student research presentations
  Various Speakers
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 14:00 - Play the 'Publishing Trap' board game
  Jane Secker (UK Copyright Literacy), Chris Morrison (UK Copyright Literacy)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - MEC Friday Seminar - Inside Tunisia’s al-Nahda: Between Politics and Preaching
  Rory McCarthy (Magdalen College, Oxford)
  Middle East Centre Friday seminars Hilary Term 2019

Tuesday 12 March 2019

• 14:00 - Bodleian iSkills: Open Access Oxford - what's happening?
  Juliet Ralph (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship

Tuesday 19 March 2019

• 09:30 - 2019 Interdisciplinary History of War Conference
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Centre for Global History events

Wednesday 24 April 2019

• 14:00 - Open Access Oxford: what's happening?
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries), Juliet Ralph (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Tuesday 30 April 2019

• 14:00 - Fundamental Rights Lawfare: Religious Freedom and Public Order in Pakistan and Malaysia
  Matthew Nelson (SOAS)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Book Launch: In Their Own Words -Understanding Lashkar-e-Tayyaba
  C. Christine Fair (Georgetown University)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 1 May 2019

• 16:00 - Tokyo 2020 and Japan's Soft Power
  Professor Yasushi Watanabe (Keio University), Professor Corneliu Bjola (University of Oxford)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series

Thursday 2 May 2019

• 10:00 - Open Access: Your thesis, copyright & ORA
  Jason Partridge (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), David Watson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 16:30 - Islamization and the formation of a vernacular tradition: Muslim funerary monuments in 15th-century northern Sumatra
  R. Michael Feener (Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Friday 3 May 2019

• 17:00 - House of Stone: An Evening with Novelist Novuyo Rosa Tshuma
  Novuyo Rosa Tshuma

Tuesday 7 May 2019

• 09:00 - TMCD & SBS Joint Workshop Programme
  Professor Jing Zhang (Assistant Professor in Industrial Economics at Nottingham University), Jean-Christophe Spiliotis (University of Oxford, Department of Economics and TMCD), Liu Shi (University of Oxford, Department of International Development and TMCD)
• 11:00 - In Praise of Floods and Wetland Refuges
  Professor James C Scott (Yale University)
  Oxford Development Studies Annual Lectures
• 14:00 - Commodities, Merchants, and Refungees: Inter-Asian circulations and Afghan mobilty
  Magnus Marsden (University of Sussex)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Parental absence and preference development in left-behind children: an experimental study in rural China
  Please note that the advertised date and time submitted to the printed Gazette is incorrect. 7 May, 5pm is the correct date and time.
  Professor Yexin Zhou (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 8 May 2019

• 17:00 - Civil solidarity and the hunt for undocumented migrants. Two Belgian case studies
  Dr Robin Vandevoordt (University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Tuesday 14 May 2019

• 14:00 - Single in the City: Women, Migration and Domestic Work in India
  TBA
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Poverty and shared prosperity 2018: piecing together the poverty puzzle
  Dr Maria Ana Lugo (World Bank), Dr Dean Jolliffe (World Bank)
• 17:00 - Available light: towards a history of community and political practice under apartheid
  Prof. Daniel Magaziner (Yale University)

Wednesday 15 May 2019

• 14:00 - Trafficking and slavery under ISIS: Trauma and rehabilitation of Yezidi female survivors
  Behnaz Hosseini (University of Vienna)
  Women's Rights Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Mobility economies: immobility, accumulation and migration in Libya
  Dr Marthe Achtnich (University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - 'What a "Textual Forensics" Might Tell us about How Arabic Writers Conserved the Past (ca. 900-1200)'
  Sarah Savant
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Friday 17 May 2019

• 17:30 - The Cognitive Empire: Struggles for Cognitive Justice and Global Peace
  Professor Sabelo J Ndlovu-Gatsheni (University of South Africa)
  Olof Palme Lectures

Tuesday 21 May 2019

• 13:00 - Conceptualizing forced migration: beyond the open orders debate
  Laura Santi Amantini (University of Genoa)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series
• 14:00 - The Paradox of Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalism
  Mick Moore (Institute of Development Studies)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Book Launch and Talk: Chinese hydropower development in Africa and Asia: Challenges and opportunities for sustainable global dam-building
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 22 May 2019

• 17:00 - Endurance and involuntary return to Senegal
  Dr Anne-Line Rodriguez (Queen Mary University of London)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - 'Escaping the Nafs in Socialist Egypt: Abd al-Halim Mahmud’s Search for a Sufi Master'
  Hatsuki Aishima
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 23 May 2019

• 12:30 - Academia to the Public Square: Media Engagement on Immigration and Asylum Issues
  Ben Doherty (The Guardian), Rob McNeil (The Migration Observatory, University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures

Friday 24 May 2019

• 14:00 - Film screening: The Eastern
  TBA
• 17:00 - Situating the Study of Islam in Global Intellectual History: Toshihiko Izutsu's Middle-Earth
  TBA

Saturday 25 May 2019

• 09:30 - Workshop -Neither Near Nor Far: Encounters and Exchanges between Japan and the Middle East
  TBA

Tuesday 28 May 2019

• 13:00 - Intergenerational impacts of IDPs on children’s early childhood development in host communities: evidence from Burundi
  Soazic Elise Wang Sonne (United Nations University in Maastricht)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Wednesday 29 May 2019

• 14:00 - Open Access Oxford: what's happening?
  Juliet Ralph (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - Sonopolis: Sound, Citizenship, and Migrant Activisms in Athens
  Dr Tom Western (University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - '"A most thrilling drama hastening to a tragic end": The Spectacle of Ottoman Decline in Early Twentieth-Century India'
  Faridah Zaman
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Friday 31 May 2019

• 17:00 - Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Lecture: The 1953 Roots of 1979
  Ervand Abrahamian

Tuesday 4 June 2019

• 13:00 - What would an ethical, but feasible, response to the refugee crisis look like? An exploration
  Adam Dalgleish (University of Auckland)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Wednesday 5 June 2019

• 14:00 - Women's Football and Futsal in Iran - their challenges and struggles
  Tomoko Yamagishi (St Antony's College)
  Women's Rights Research Seminar
• 17:00 - A Mobile Milieu: Humanitarian Equipment and the Politics of Need | Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture 2019
  Professor Peter Redfield (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures

Tuesday 11 June 2019

• 13:00 - From emergency shelters to dwellings: on the role of refugees as architects and the construction of dwellings in Zaatari Camp, Jordan
  Ayham Dalal (Habitat Unit)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Wednesday 12 June 2019

• 17:00 - 'Another Genealogy of Critique: On Islam and Reason'
  Irfan Ahmad
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Friday 14 June 2019

• 09:00 - BRICS: Unpacking land-use transformation conference
  Various Speakers
• 17:00 - Lecture and Book Launch- The politics of family law reform in Jordan and Morocco: Two seemingly similar monarchies, two different approaches
  Dr Dörthe Engelcke (Max Planck Institute, Hamburg)

Thursday 20 June 2019

• 17:00 - George Antonius Memorial Lecture
  Dr Saeb Erekat (Palestine Liberation Organization Negotiation Affairs Department)

Monday 24 June 2019

• 11:00 - Amazonia under Bolsonaro's government: new risks for forests and forest defenders
  TBA

Monday 19 August 2019

• 14:00 - Open Access: Authors, copyright and open access - making it work for you
  Sarah Barkla (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Juliet Ralph (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Sally Rumsey (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Wednesday 28 August 2019

• 14:00 - Open Access Oxford: what's happening?
  Juliet Ralph (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Sarah Humphries (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Tuesday 15 October 2019

• 14:00 - Cultural Practices and Child Health in Pakistan
  Professor Theresa Thompson Chaudhry (Lahore School of Economics)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 16 October 2019

• 17:00 - The political economy of refugee self-reliance
  Prof Alexander Betts (University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 17 October 2019

• 13:00 - Narrow Fairways: Getting By & Falling Behind in the New India
  Patrick Inglis (Grinnell College )
  Social Life of Work Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Open Access: Your thesis, copyright & ORA
  Jason Partridge (University of Oxford, Bodleian Libraries), David Watson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:15 - Representing Philosophical Selfhood 1911-2014
  Please note corrected time - 5.15pm start
  Jeanne-Marie Jackson
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Friday 18 October 2019

• 13:00 - The first revision of the global MPI: Empirical insights and robustness
  Dr Ricardo Nogales (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 16:00 - Global Struggles and Africa’s Cold War
  Professor David Anderson (University of Warwick)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Martyrs and Tricksters: An Ethnography of the Egyptian Revolution
  Dr Walter Armbrust (MEC Albert Hourani Fellow)
  MEC Friday Seminar Series

Tuesday 22 October 2019

• 13:00 - Civil society and the everyday politics of the global refugee regime: early lessons from the Local Engagement Refugee Research Network (LERRN)
  Prof James Milner (Carleton University)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series
• 13:30 - Tribal land and alienation and Adivasi movement for autonomy in India and Bangladesh
  Dr Dalel Benbabaali (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Area Studies, St John's Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 15:00 - Open Access Oxford: What's happening? (Part of International Open Access Week 2019)
  Sarah Humphries (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Juliet Ralph (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Wednesday 23 October 2019

• 14:00 - Open Access: Authors, copyright and open access - making it work for you (Part of International Open Access Week 2019)
  Sarah Barkla (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Juliet Ralph (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Sally Rumsey (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - Postcolonial boundaries, self-determination and the Rohingya refugee crisis
  Dr Mohammad Shahabuddin (University of Birmingham)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 24 October 2019

• 17:15 - Timothy Mo’s fiction and witnessing injustice
  Kelly Tse
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Friday 25 October 2019

• 13:00 - Multidimensional energy poverty: A quasi-experimental approach applied to education
  Mr Jeff Pagel (University of Barcelona)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 16:00 - “You taught me language and my profit on it is I know how to curse”: Shakespeare’s The Tempest in postcolonial criticism and performance
  Dr Cheryl Birdseye (Oxford Brookes)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Tuesday 29 October 2019

• 13:00 - Localized integration: Syrian refugee experience with German bureaucracy
  Morgan Etzel (Ludwig Maximilian’s University Munich)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series
• 14:00 - Centralisation and nationalism in the making of Indian capitalism
  Professor Pritam Singh (Wolfson College, Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 30 October 2019

• 17:00 - The Map is Not the Territory: Story-making, Place and Performance | Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture 2019
  Professor Dame Marina Warner
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures

Thursday 31 October 2019

• 14:00 - ´They want to change us by charging us´: basic services, wage labour and the changing values of the finca among the Quichua people of the Lower Napo river (Ecuadorian Amazon)
  Julie Dayot (Oxford Department of International Development)
  Social Life of Work Seminar Series

Friday 1 November 2019

• 13:00 - The role of inequality in poverty measurement
  Professor Sabina Alkire (University of Oxford)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 16:00 - The “federal moment” in East Africa: regionalism and the nation-state, 1958-1963
  Dr Chris Vaughan (Liverpool John Moores)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 4 November 2019

• 17:00 - Skill Diversity and the Evolution of Formal Employment in Cities
  Eduardo Lora (Harvard University)

Tuesday 5 November 2019

• 13:00 - The Returns Network: Journalism, academia and measuring post-deportation risks
  Daniel Howden (Lighthouse Reports)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series
• 14:00 - Nationalism, Development, and Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka
  TBA
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 6 November 2019

• 17:00 - A human right to international freedom of movement
  Dr Sarah Fine (King's College London)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 7 November 2019

• 17:15 - The Aesthetic Cold War: Decolonization and Global Literature
  Peter Kalliney (University of Kentucky)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar
• 17:30 - The Turkish state's military operation in Northern Syria: a discussion with members of the Kurdish community in Oxford
  Dr Dilar Dirik (University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures

Friday 8 November 2019

• 16:00 - 'The view from Ikoyi: negotiating late colonialism in Nigeria
  Dr Tim Livsey (Northumbria)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Tuesday 12 November 2019

• 13:00 - Member States contribution to refugee protection provision in the EU: a public goods perspective
  Diego Caballero Vélez (Sant´Anna School of Advanced Studies)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series
• 14:00 - Gandhi @150: Rethinking India’s Non-Violent Revolutionary
  Dr Talat Ahmed (Edinburgh)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 13 November 2019

• 17:00 - Humanitarian wearables and digital bodies: problems of gifts and labour
  Professor Kristin Sandvik (University of Oslo)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 14 November 2019

• 14:00 - Incorporating into difference: everyday life in the manufacturing plants of Pedreros, Mexico
  Emilia Pool Illsley (Oxford Department of International Development)
  Social Life of Work Seminar Series

Friday 15 November 2019

• 13:00 - Relationships between monetary poverty and the global MPI: Joint, separate or correlated distributions?
  Dr Matthew Robson (University of York)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 16:00 - Droughts, Pastoralists and Identities in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Kenya: an Archaeological Perspective
  Professor Paul Lane (Cambridge)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 18 November 2019

• 17:00 - A film discussion evening on Shelter without Shelter
  Professor Tom Scott-Smith (University of Oxford), Dr Mark E Breeze (University of Cambridge)
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures

Tuesday 19 November 2019

• 13:00 - Seeking protection from a place of refuge: refugees as the modern day Tantalus
  Dr Kate Ogg (Australian National University)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series
• 14:00 - Towards a Religious Internationalism? The Indian Khilafat Movement in Interwar Europe
  Faridah Zaman
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 20 November 2019

• 17:00 - Continuums of exploitation – the legal framework on trafficking in persons
  Professor Siobhan Mullally (National University of Ireland, Galway)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Friday 22 November 2019

• 13:00 - Revisions of the global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI): Indicator options and their empirical assessment
  Dr Usha Kanagaratnam (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 16:00 - Global(izing) Africa: the case of economic history
  Professor Gareth Austin (Cambridge)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Tuesday 26 November 2019

• 14:00 - Gandhi's Spell on the Bollywood Hero
  Sanjay Suri (Europe correspondent, CNN News18 media group)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 28 November 2019

• 12:15 - Women and Children amidst the Cameroonian Anglophone Crisis: A Testimony by NGO Leader Esther Omam Njomo
  The talk will take place as originally planned, despite the strike. Even though we were unsuccessful in finding an alternative time or venue, we wish to hereby express our solidarity with the strike. We encourage everyone to join this (student-organised) talk.
  Esther Omam Njomo (Reach Out Cameroon)
• 14:00 - CANCELLED: Emotional labour as workplace freedom? Ethical judgements from north India
  CANCELLED
  Akanksha Awal (University of Oxford)
  Social Life of Work Seminar Series
• 17:15 - POSTPONED - Placeless People
  Postponed until Trinity Term
  Lyndsey Stonebridge
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Friday 29 November 2019

• 13:00 - The Creative Wealth of Nations
  Mr Patrick Kabanda
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 16:00 - Slavery in the Nigerien Sahel: A Resilient Institution
  This seminar has been cancelled due to the industrial action
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Benedetta Rossi (Birmingham)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Tuesday 3 December 2019

• 13:00 - Bargains of inclusion: why some states give refugees the right to work
  CANCELLED
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Prof Alexander Betts (University of Oxford), Dr Olivier Sterck (University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Wednesday 4 December 2019

• 17:00 - Third World Approaches to International Law: A retrospective with some implications for refugee and migration law
  Professor Antony Anghie (University of Utah)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 5 December 2019

• 14:00 - Silicon Dreams: Black Start-Up Entrepreneurship in Johannesburg, South Africa
  Dhruva Bhat (Oxford Department of International Development)
  Social Life of Work Seminar Series
• 15:00 - Open Access Oxford: What's happening?
  Juliet Ralph (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:15 - Writers Make Worlds - Patience Agbabi Reading
  Patience Agbabi
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Friday 6 December 2019

• 13:00 - Sensitivity analyses in poverty measurement: The case of the global Multidimensional Poverty Index
  Dr Nicolai Suppa (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 16:00 - 'The Condition of Exile: Ghanaian Political Exile Networks in the Post-Independence Period
  Harriet Aldrich (St Hugh's, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 16 December 2019

• 14:00 - Workshop: Consistency in the Practice of Human Protection
  Dr John Gledhill (University of Oxford)), Dr Noele Crossley (University of Oxford), Prof. Eric Heinze (Queen Mary University of London), Dr Cecilia Jacob (Australian National University), Prof. James Pattison (University of Manchester), Prof. Richard Caplan (University of Oxford), Prof. Alex Bellamy (University of Queensland), Dr Jonathan Leader Maynard (University of Oxford), Dr Sophie Rosenberg (University of Oxford), Dr Gerrit Kurtz (German Council on Foreign Relations)

Wednesday 15 January 2020

• 14:30 - Open Access Oxford: What's happening?
  Sarah Humphries (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Juliet Ralph (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Tuesday 21 January 2020

• 14:00 - Capitalism in the Himalaya
  Professor Barbara Harriss-White ((Emeritus Professor of Development Studies, Oxford))
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 22 January 2020

• 17:00 - Kurdish women’s knowledge of the state: from the guerrilla to the refugee camp
  Dr Dilar Dirik (University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Friday 24 January 2020

• 13:00 - Too young to die: Deprivation measures combining poverty and premature mortality
  Dr Benoît Decerf (University of Namur)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 16:00 - International treaties as imperial social contracts
  Professor Saliha Belmessous (University of South Wales)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 27 January 2020

• 17:00 - Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa
  Ambassador Prof Dr Claas Knoop
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series

Tuesday 28 January 2020

• 13:00 - Externalization and the erosion of refugee protection: an initial enquiry
  Dr Jeff Crisp (Refugee Studies Centre)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series
• 13:00 - Adventure Capital: Migration and the Making of an African Hub
  Julie Kleinman (Fordham University)
  ODID Special Lectures & Seminars
• 14:00 - Forests, Famines and livlihoods: towards an environmental history of Eastern India
  CANCELLED
  Vinita Damodaran (Sussex)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 30 January 2020

• 17:15 - The Visibility of the Writer as Prisoner
  Dr Michelle Kelly (University of Oxford)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Friday 31 January 2020

• 16:00 - "A Pack of Knaves": The Royal African Company, large plantations and the rise of the planter class and imperial commitment to the support of slavery in British America 1672-1708
  Professor Trevor Burnard (University of Melbourne)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Tuesday 4 February 2020

• 14:00 - Arms, Arts and Agriculture: Indo-Mexican Intellectual Connections in the Early Twentieth Century
  Jesus Chairez-Garcia (Manchester)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 5 February 2020

• 15:00 - Degradation by design: corrosive control in the lives of women seeking asylum in bordered Britain
  Dr Victoria Canning (University of Bristol)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Friday 7 February 2020

• 13:00 - Building a composite Multidimensional Poverty Index using Delphi dimensions, indicators and weights
  Putu Natih (Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 16:00 - Materials, design and revolution in the making of modern China
  Dr Jennifer Altehenger (Merton College, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Book launch - Palestinian Refugees in International Law | Middle East Centre and Refugee Studies Centre event
  Lex Takkenberg ((Former chief of the Ethics Office at the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees)), Francesca Albanese ((The Institute for the Study of International Migration (ISIM),Georgetown University))
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures

Monday 10 February 2020

• 17:00 - Book Launch: The Political Life of an Epidemic by Simukai Chigudu
  Simukai Chigudu (University of Oxford)
  ODID Special Lectures & Seminars

Tuesday 11 February 2020

• 14:00 - 'For a better future': Education and unstable future-making in Nepal
  Uma Pradhan
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 12 February 2020

• 17:00 - Colonial mobilities and global inequality: why European settlers ought not to be regarded as migrants
  Professor Gurminder K Bhambra (University of Sussex)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 13 February 2020

• 14:00 - Open Access: Your thesis, copyright & ORA
  David Watson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:15 - Prison poetics - the poetry of Soyinka and Mapanje
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Rachel Knighton
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Friday 14 February 2020

• 13:00 - The quality of employment (QoE) in nine Latin American countries: A multidimensional perspective
  Professor Kirsten Sehnbruch (London School of Economics), Dr Mauricio Apablaza (Universidad del Desarrollo)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 16:00 - Slavery in the Nigerien Sahel: A Resilient Institution
  Dr Benedetta Rossi (Birmingham)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Tuesday 18 February 2020

• 13:00 - Bargains of Inclusion: Why Some States Give Refugees the Right to Work
  Prof Alexander Betts (University of Oxford), Dr Olivier Sterck (University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series
• 14:00 - A millenarian sultan and a teacher to the world: New directions in early modern Indo-Muslim kingship
  Roy Fischel (SOAS, University of London)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 19 February 2020

• 17:00 - Forced migration in the United Kingdom: women’s journeys to escape domestic violence
  Dr Janet Bowstead (Royal Holloway, University of London)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Friday 21 February 2020

• 13:00 - Unidimensional underpinnings of multidimensional counting measures
  Professor James Foster (Georges Washington University)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 16:00 - Napoleon III, the invasion of Mexico, and mid-Victorian liberalism
  Dr Alex Middleton (Christchurch College, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Tuesday 25 February 2020

• 13:00 - Multilocality and Refugee-Nomad Interchange in Northern Mauritania
  Matthew Porges (RSC Student Visitor)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series
• 14:00 - Highways to the end of the World: Roads, Road-Builders and the Archiecture of Power in South Asia
  CANCELLED
  Ed Simpson (SOAS< University of London)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 26 February 2020

• 17:00 - SEMINAR CANCELLED: An intersectional approach to policy and decision making on SOGI asylum claims in Europe
  Professor Nuno Ferreira (University of Sussex)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 27 February 2020

• 17:15 - West African Artists and Playwrights in Contemporary London Theatres
  Tiziana Morosetti (African Studies, Oxford)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Friday 28 February 2020

• 13:00 - On synthetic income panels
  Dr Hector Moreno (OPHI)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 16:00 - Revolution, Empire and Entangled History in the Southern Caribbean
  Dr Dexnell Peters (Exeter College, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Tuesday 3 March 2020

• 13:00 - Rohingya Refugee Crisis: Examination of the Causes of Persecution
  Mohammad Didarul Islam (University of Leeds), Ayesha Siddikha (University of Dhaka)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Wednesday 4 March 2020

• 17:00 - SEMINAR CANCELLED | Bordering
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Georgie Wemyss (University of East London), Professor Nira Yuval-Davis (University of East London)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 5 March 2020

• 12:30 - The Asian Miracle: Learning from a Half-century of Development
  Professor Deepak Nayyar (JNU)
  ODID Special Lectures & Seminars
• 17:15 - Presentation by Teacher Alexandra Brown on critical pedagogy and the classroom
  Ann Ang (Wadham College), Achas Burin (Wadham College)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Friday 6 March 2020

• 10:00 - Global & Imperial History graduate student research presentations
  These presentations will be from 10:00-17:00
  Various Speakers
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 13:00 - Identifying inequality benchmark incomes
  Dr Laurence Roope (Health Economics Research Centre, University of Oxford)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 17:00 - Exiled: The Plight of Rohingya Refugees | Screening and Discussion with the Director
  Shahida Tulaganova (Director)
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures
• 17:00 - Book Launch - “Deep States and Deep Troubles in the MENA,” Palestinian multilingualism: A perfectly normal adaptation to colonialism, conflict and late capitalism
  Professor Robert Springborg ((Kings College London))

Monday 9 March 2020

• 14:00 - Plan S and cOAlition S (Part of Open Access Oxford Week 2020)
  Sally Rumsey (Jisc & cOAlition S)
  Open Scholarship

Tuesday 10 March 2020

• 14:30 - The International FAIR movement for Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable research data (Part of Open Access Oxford Week 2020)
  Professor Susanna-Assunta Sansone (Oxford e-Research Centre & Dept of Engineering Science, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Wednesday 11 March 2020

• 14:00 - Implementing the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) - Part of Open Access Oxford Week 2020
  David Carr (Open Research, Wellcome Trust), Professor Alis Oancea (University of Oxford), Professor Anne Trefethen (University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - SEMINAR CANCELLED | Access to SGBV protection services for Syrian and Palestinian refugees in Lebanon
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Menaal Munshey (University of Cambridge)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 12 March 2020

• 14:00 - Robust research: a practical guide (Part of Open Access Oxford Week 2020)
  Dr Verena Heise (Nuffield Dept of Population Health, Univ of Oxford; & Reproducible Research Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:15 - Unmasking Violence, Writing Nostalgia: Revisiting the Socialist Period in Angolan Art and Literature
  Dorothée Boulanger (University of Oxford)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Friday 13 March 2020

• 10:00 - Global and Imperial History graduate students research presentations
  Postponed to Trinity Term
  Various Speakers
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 13:00 - *Postponed* Robust non-parametric estimation of inequality measures with contaminated data
  The talk has been postponed, a new date will be communicated soon.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay (Queen Mary University of London)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 14:00 - Authors, copyright and open access - making it work for you (Part of Open Access Oxford Week 2020)
  Sarah Barkla (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Juliet Ralph (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Monday 23 March 2020

• 14:00 - Young Lives: Data Harmonization in Longitudinal Studies Masterclass
  Professor Aryeh Stein (Emory University)

Tuesday 28 April 2020

• 14:00 - The white ant's burden: Insects, empire and entomo-politics in South Asia
  Rohan Deb Roy (University of Reading)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Monday 4 May 2020

• 17:00 - Tinkering: Can a State-Sanctioned Informal Forum for Land Dispute Resolution Reduce Land Cases in Courts? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Sierra Leone
  This event will be held online through Teams. Anyone can join this event by clicking the meeting link below at the time of the meeting.
  Henry Musa Kpaka (London School of Economics), Mariana Borges (PPRF, Nuffield College)

Tuesday 5 May 2020

• 14:00 - Mobility, Livelihood, and COVID-19
  This event will take place online on Zoom. To register, please visit https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wukBfYFHTqmdkJSbDgTVaA
  Professor Biao Xiang (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 6 May 2020

• 17:00 - Global agenda setting, from the bottom up: the Global Refugee-Led Network (GRN)
  This seminar will be held online via Zoom
  Mustafa Alio, Shaza Al Rihawi, Anila Noor, Najeeba Wazefadost
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 7 May 2020

• 13:00 - Seeking Asylum in Literature: Reclaiming the Refugee Narrative
  This event will take place through Zoom. To register, please visit bit.ly/alghurabi
  Lur Alghurabi (University of Oxford)

Monday 11 May 2020

• 17:00 - Life under lockdown in Nigeria
  Online via Zoom
  Various Speakers
  African History & Politics Seminars

Tuesday 12 May 2020

• 14:00 - Anthropological solace? Social analysis between understanding and caring in the COVID-19 crisis
  Registration via https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9Mnzuuj-QVK48isRQBOq4A
  Prof. Pietro (Piero) Vereni (Tor Vergata University of Rome), Kushal Sohal (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 13 May 2020

• 14:00 - Open Access Oxford: What's happening?
  Juliet Ralph (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Catherine Dockerty (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - Without recognition, without assistance: Refugee-led responses in urban contexts
  This seminar will be held online via Zoom
  Bahati Ghislain, Robert Hakiza, Janemary Ruhundwa
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Monday 18 May 2020

• 09:30 - Hegemonic Narratives: Global, national and local dynamics of memory politics in (post)conflict societies
  Various Speakers
  ODID Conferences and Workshops
• 14:00 - How Covid-19 Will Affect the Global Poor
  Professor Sabina Alkire (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Development

Tuesday 19 May 2020

• 14:00 - Fear and Loathing in Times of COVID-19
  Online via Zoom. Please register via https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Bvjp4xk3R7SfZovpmDJ3ow
  Prof. Jörg Friedrichss (University of Oxford), Niklas Stoehr (ETH Zurich)

Wednesday 20 May 2020

• 17:00 - New partnerships: How international organisations can support refugee-led organisations
  This seminar will be held online, via Zoom
  Dana Al Anzy, Edmund Page
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 21 May 2020

• 13:00 - ODID Flash Talk: Framing Protest at Political Summits - An Analysis of Dominant Protest Narratives and Failing Democratic Accountability
  Online via Zoom
  Finn Klebe (University of Oxford)

Friday 22 May 2020

• 14:00 - ODID/LAC - UNDP Special Roundtable: Power, Governance and Inequality in Latin America in the Era of Pandemics
  This event will take place online via Zoom. Please register via https://bit.ly/2YRDP5b
  Diego Sánchez-Ancochea (Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford), Santiago Levy (Brookins Institute), Rebeca Grynspan (SEGIB), Luis Felipe López-Calva (UNDP), Nora Lustig (Tulane University)

Tuesday 26 May 2020

• 14:00 - China's Growth Strategy, and What It Means for the World
  Prof Xiaolan Fu (Oxford TMCD)
  Oxford Development
• 14:00 - Reflections on Emptiness in Times of COVID-19
  Dace Dzenovska (University of Oxford), Mathilde Morin (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 27 May 2020

• 14:00 - Open Access Oxford: What's happening?
  Juliet Ralph (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Catherine Dockerty (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - Rapid response to funding gaps: Philanthropic support for refugee-led initiatives
  This seminar will be held online, via Zoom
  Anna Crowley, Annemieke de Jong, Mingo Heiduk
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 28 May 2020

• 13:00 - Using the MPI as a tool for crafting government responses to the Covid-19 pandemic
  Various Speakers

Monday 1 June 2020

• 15:30 - Overcoming Boko Haram: A Book and a Conversation
  Various Speakers
  ODID Special Lectures & Seminars

Tuesday 2 June 2020

• 14:00 - COVID-19 Flash Talk: Domestic Violence During the Great Lockdown
  Dr Cathy McIlwaine (King's College London), Vidya Ramachandran (University of Oxford)
  Covid-19 Flash Talks

Monday 8 June 2020

• 14:00 - Space, Class and Social Distancing in the Indian City
  Prof Nandini Gooptu (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Development
• 14:00 - Migration Control and Human Rights in the Pandemic Era
  Cathryn Costello (St Antony's College)
  Oxford Development
• 17:00 - Life and Politics in Zimbabwe
  Arnold Chamunogwa (University of Oxford), Rudo Mudiwa (Princeton University), Ushehwedu Kufakurinani (University of Zimbabwe), Novuyo Rosa Tshuma (Emerson College)
  African History & Politics Seminars

Wednesday 10 June 2020

• 17:00 - Limited room to manoeuvre: Refugee-led responses in camp settings
  This seminar will be held online, via Zoom
  Nhial Deng, Innocent Magambi, Samuel Ouma Mijwang’a
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 11 June 2020

• 12:30 - A Lunchtime Online Seminar
  Bhagya Casaba-Somashekar (University of Oxford), Tom McLean (University of Oxford)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Friday 12 June 2020

• 14:00 - National lockdowns and global spill-overs: some macroeconomic aspects of Covid-19 in Sub Saharan Africa
  Professor Christopher Adam (University of Oxford), Prof Alexander Betts (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Development

Monday 15 June 2020

• 14:00 - The Growing Costs of Inequality: Lessons from Latin America
  Diego Sánchez Ancochea (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Development
• 15:00 - Politics in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique
  Paolo Israel (University of the Western Cape), Liazzat Bonate (University of the West Indies), Fredson Guilengue (Wits University & Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung), Brooke Parkin (University of Oxford)
  African History & Politics Seminars

Tuesday 16 June 2020

• 14:00 - Learning in Governance in times of COVID-19
  Jomo Kwame Sundaram (United Nations), Mukta Naik (CPR India), Isabella Blumm (University of Oxford)
  Covid-19 Flash Talks

Wednesday 17 June 2020

• 14:00 - Open Access Oxford: What's happening?
  This session will be delivered through Microsoft Teams
  Juliet Ralph (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Catherine Dockerty (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - Affecting change from within: Refugees in international humanitarian organisations
  This seminar will be held online, via Zoom
  Joelle Hangi, Bahati Ernestine Hategekimana, Foni Joyce
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Friday 19 June 2020

• 14:00 - Islam in the Changing World
  Professor Masooda Bano (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Development

Monday 22 June 2020

• 14:00 - The Politics of Pandemics in Africa
  Simukai Chigudu (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Development

Wednesday 24 June 2020

• 15:00 - Mobility and immobility in the time of coronavirus: reflections from long-term study of migration and displacement | Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture 2020
  This talk will take place via Zoom webinar
  Professor Laura Hammond (SOAS, University of London)

Monday 29 June 2020

• 14:00 - Should We Abolish Immigration Control?
  Prof Matthew Gibney (Refugee Studies Centre)
  Oxford Development

Wednesday 15 July 2020

• 14:00 - Open Access Oxford: What's happening?
  Juliet Ralph (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Sarah Barkla (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Thursday 24 September 2020

• 14:00 - Poverty at a Crossroad: Using leadership and the multidimensional poverty index to build back better
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 13 October 2020

• 14:00 - Global histories of hierarchy? Reflections from India on caste, race and the Black Lives Matter movement
  Rosalind O'Hanlon (Oxford), Dr Nayanika Mathur (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 14 October 2020

• 17:00 - AI: simulation and dissimulation
  Dr Yaqub Chaudhary (Cambridge Muslim College)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 15 October 2020

• 17:00 - Special Seminar: Saudi Arabia and the rise and fall of Political Islam
  Special Seminars are held on Thursdays at 17:00
  Professor Bernard Haykel (Princeton)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Friday 16 October 2020

• 13:00 - A journey of acute poverty: the global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI)
  Professor Sabina Alikre (Director of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative), Dr Usha Kanagaratnam (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 16:00 - The Human Rights of Political Detainees — Nelson Mandela, Robben Island and the International Committee of the Red Cross
  Professor Andrew Thompson (Nuffield, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The Dictatorship Syndrome (REGISTRATION ESSENTIAL)
  Alaa Al Aswany

Tuesday 20 October 2020

• 14:00 - Open Access Oxford: What's happening?
  Sarah Barkla (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 14:00 - Pandemic as event: thinking modern Indian society through a crisis
  Dilip Menon (Witswatersrand)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 21 October 2020

• 17:00 - Islamist transformations after the Arab Uprisings: Tunisia’s Ennahda Movement
  Dr Rory McCarthy (Durham)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Deporting Extremists: A Qualified Defence
  Rutger Birnie (European University Institute)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Friday 23 October 2020

• 13:00 - Measuring human recognition for women in Malawi using the Alkire-Foster method of multidimensional poverty counting
  Dr Ebelechukwu Maduekwe (Technical University of Munich)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 16:00 - Escaping the Global Event: India, Islam and the Great War
  Professor Faisal Devji (St Antony's, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Authoritarian or Revolutionary? Reflections on the Nature of the State in the Islamic Republic of Iran (REGISTRATION ESSENTIAL)
  Maryam Alemzadeh ((Princeton)), Siavush Randjbar-Daemi ((St Andrews))
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Social Assistance and Climate Adaptation: Impacts and Design
  Professor Arun Agrawal (University of Michigan)
  Climate Change and the Challenges of Development

Tuesday 27 October 2020

• 11:00 - Open Access Oxford: What's happening?
  Sarah Barkla (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 14:00 - “Chai – why?” The making of the Indian “national drink”
  Philip Lutgendorf (Iowa)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Psychoanalysis of the Oppressed, a Practice of Freedom: Free Clinics in Urban India
  Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Wednesday 28 October 2020

• 14:00 - Challenging the Limited View - The Case of the Women in Mosques Movement (REGISTRATION ESSENTIAL)
  Dr Yildirim
  MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars
• 17:00 - Archives and archival sensibilities in medieval Arabic Historiography
  Dr Fozia Bora (Leeds)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Carceral Junctions - Stuckness and Connectedness in Camps
  Simon Turner (University of Copenhagen)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Friday 30 October 2020

• 13:00 - Catastrophic payments and multidimensional poverty: A longitudinal analysis
  Dr Mónica Pinilla-Roncancio (Universidad de Los Andes and OPHI), Dr Paul Rodriguez (Universidad del Rosario)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 16:00 - Chinese Partition: Islamophobic Inheritances in the Legacies of the Great Northwestern Rebellion, 1860-1874
  Dr Hannah Theaker (St Anne's, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Illiberal Liberals and the Future of Dictatorship in Egypt (REGISTRATION ESSENTIAL)
  Dalia Fahmy ((Long Island University)), Daanish Faruqi ((Duke))
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 2 November 2020

• 14:00 - Open Access Oxford: What's happening?
  Sarah Barkla (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Tuesday 3 November 2020

• 14:00 - Domestic audience costs and foreign policy making in India: recent shifts in the BJP's strategy
  Happymon Jacob (JNU)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 4 November 2020

• 17:00 - Money, markets and monarchies: The Gulf Cooperation Council and political economy of the Middle East
  Dr Adam Hanieh (SOAS)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Unlivable Life: Ordinary Disasters and the Atmosphere of Crisis in Haiti
  Greg Beckett (University of Western Ontario)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Friday 6 November 2020

• 10:00 - Open Access: New Wellcome Trust Policy
  Sarah Barkla (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 13:00 - Construction of an internationally comparable Child Multidimensional Poverty Index
  Mr Richard Freund (Young Lives)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 16:00 - Eric Williams Revisited: The State, Protectionism, Slavery, and Industrialisation, 1700-1800
  Dr William Ashworth (Liverpool)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The New Populist nationalism in Saudi Arabia (REGISTRATION ESSENTIAL)
  Madawi Al-Rasheed ((KCL and LSE)), Ben Hubbard ((The New York Times))
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Tuesday 10 November 2020

• 14:00 - Rajput loyalties in the Mughal age
  Cynthia Talbot (Texas at Austin)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Literary Activism in Contemporary Africa: Notes on Form and Social Production
  Professor Madhu Krishnan (University of Bristol)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Wednesday 11 November 2020

• 17:00 - Islam, liberalism and national identity: Lessons from British Islamic institutions
  Dr Stephen H. Jones (Birmingham)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Reflecting on Refugia
  Nicholas Van Hear (University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Friday 13 November 2020

• 13:00 - Poor households or poor individuals? The issue of the unit of identification when designing an MPI
  Dr María Emma Santos (Universidad Nacional del Sur, CONICET and OPHI)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 16:00 - Toussaint Louverture, the Black Spartacus of Saint-Domingue
  Dr Sudhir Hazareesingh (Balliol, Oxforfd)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Asking Fundamental Questions of the State, Space and Nature
  Please email events@qeh.ox.ac.uk to register.
  Nikita Sud (University of Oxford)
  Frontiers of Development Lecture Series
• 17:30 - The Trajectory of the Tunisian Revolution: between Continuities and Disjunctures (REGISTRATION ESSENTIAL)
  Professor Sami Zemni ((Ghent))
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 16 November 2020

• 14:00 - Open Access: New Wellcome Trust Policy
  Sarah Barkla (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Tuesday 17 November 2020

• 14:00 - Domestic devotion: Jain wooden house shrines from Gujarat in American museum collections
  John E Cort (Denison)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 18 November 2020

• 10:00 - Open Access: Your thesis, copyright & ORA
  David Watson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Sarah Barkla (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - Counting Shaykhs in hadith collections
  Professor Christopher Melchert
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Democracy after Right-Wing Populism | Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture
  Jan-Werner Mueller (Princeton University)
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures
• 17:00 - Africa and the Global Outbreak Narrative
  Simukai Chigudu (University of Oxford)

Thursday 19 November 2020

• 17:00 - Special Seminar: Using field experiments to learn about religious behavior
  Special Seminars are held on Thursdays at 17:00
  Professor Adam Osman (Illinois (Urbana-Champaign))
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Friday 20 November 2020

• 13:00 - Measuring rural poverty with a multidimensional approach: conceptual framework and empirical results
  Dr Frank Vollmer (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative), Dr Piero Conforti (FAO), Dr. José A. Rosero Moncayo (Director of the Statistics Division in the Economic and Social Development Department, FAO)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 16:00 - Revenge of the Commons: property, debt and collateral in the history of African financial capitalism
  Professor Keith Breckenridge (Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Apocalymbo: Trickster Politics in the Age of the Pandemic (and Other Crises) (REGISTRATION ESSENTIAL)
  Dr Walter Armbrust (MEC Albert Hourani Fellow)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 23 November 2020

• 17:30 - Refugees as Human Shields: In Conversation with Neve Gordon
  Prof Neve Gordon (Professor of International Law and Human Rights, Queen Mary University of London)

Tuesday 24 November 2020

• 14:00 - Jeko Khere So Khaye (He who tills has the right to eat): 'development' and the politics of agrarian reform in late 1940s and early 1950s in Sindh
  Sarah Ansari (RHUL)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 25 November 2020

• 17:00 - Nana Asma’u (d. 1864): The erudite poet and mystic of the Sokoto Caliphate
  Dr Minlib Dallh
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - ‘Belongers’ and ‘non-belongers’: dividing citizens in 1968
  Deirdre Troy (Queen Mary University of London)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 26 November 2020

• 15:00 - The Pluralism of Place: India and the Muslim World in the Political Thought of Abul Kalam Azad
  Shaunna Rodrigues (Columbia University)

Friday 27 November 2020

• 12:00 - Matsuo Bashô 松尾芭蕉 and the Poetics of Fûkyô 風狂
  Professor Peipei Qiu (Vassar College)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
• 13:00 - Endogenous weights and multidimensional poverty: A cautionary tale
  Dr Gaston Yalonetzky (University of Leeds)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 16:00 - Ordering the East- publishers’ series and the invention of the oriental classic, 1878-1950
  Dr Mishka Sinha (St John's, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Why Syria Still Matters and Why Assad is Still There
  Dr Lina Khatib ((Chatham)), Jeremy Bowen ((BBC News))
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
• 19:00 - Book Panel: Ather Zia's Resisting Disappearance: Military Occupation and Women's Activism in Kashmir
  Mihika Chatterjee (University of Oxford), Ather Zia (University of Northern Colorado), Mona Bhan (Syracuse University), Sharika Thiranagama (Stanford University), Sneha Krishnan (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 1 December 2020

• 10:00 - Open Access: New Wellcome Trust Policy
  Sarah Barkla (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Wednesday 2 December 2020

• 17:00 - Alchemical interpretations of the Qur’an in the Shudhūr al-dhahab (Shards of Gold) and its commentaries
  Dr Richard Todd (Birmingham)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Special Seminar: Book talk: Islam, authoritarianism, and underdevelopment
  Special Seminars are held on Thursdays at 17:00
  Professor Ahmet Kuru (San Diego State)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Refugees and Racial Capitalism: What ‘Integration’ In the Labour Market Means
  Elizabeth Dunn (Indiana University Bloomington)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 3 December 2020

• 16:00 - Towards Party Constitutionalism: On Freedom of Speech within Political Parties
  Udit Bhatia (University of Oxford)

Friday 4 December 2020

• 12:00 - Family-Run Universities in Japan
  Dr Jeremy Breaden (Monash University), Professor Roger Goodman (University of Oxford)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
• 13:00 - A bird’s eye view of well-being: Exploring a multidimensional measure for the UK
  Professor Sabina Alikre (Director of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative), Miss Fanni Kovesdi (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 16:00 - "Kin Beyond Sea": W E Gladstone on Liberalism, Empire, and America, 1846-1898
  Dr Graeme Thompson (Harvard)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The logic of chaos: The pattern of dictatorships (REGISTRATION ESSENTIAL)
  Ece Temelkuran
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Tuesday 8 December 2020

• 11:00 - Open Access Oxford: What's happening?
  Sarah Barkla (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Thursday 10 December 2020

• 16:00 - Open Access: New Wellcome Trust Policy
  Sarah Barkla (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Friday 11 December 2020

• 10:30 - Climate Change and the Challenges of Development: Himalayan Forum
  Various Speakers
  Climate Change and the Challenges of Development

Wednesday 6 January 2021

• 14:00 - Open Access: New Wellcome Trust Policy
  Sarah Barkla (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Monday 11 January 2021

• 14:00 - Open Access: New Welcome Trust Policy
  Sarah Barkla (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Friday 15 January 2021

• 14:00 - Open Access: New Wellcome Trust Policy
  Sarah Barkla (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Monday 18 January 2021

• 15:00 - Sensitivity analyses in poverty measurement: The case of the global Multidimensional Poverty Index
  Dr Nicolai Suppa (OPHI, CED)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 16:00 - Nation and Its Discontents: The Poetics and Politics of Siraiki Nationalism in Pakistan
  Ali Usman Qasmi (LUMS)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Tuesday 19 January 2021

• 14:00 - Kalki and the Mahdi: The Twenty-Four Avatars of the Dasam Granth
  Professor Robin Rinehart (Lafayette College)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 20 January 2021

• 10:00 - Open Access: New Welcome Trust Policy
  Sarah Barkla (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - Refugee denial: Settler colonialism & the making of the Global North imaginary
  Laura Madokoro (Associate Professor of History, Carleton University)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Friday 22 January 2021

• 16:00 - The Bonds of Family
  Dr Katie Donington (London South Bank University)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Algeria and Sudan: A Late Spring or an Early Summer?
  Mohanad Hashim (BBC), Dalia Ghanem (Carnegie)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 25 January 2021

• 12:30 - Analysing Visions Experienced by Saints and Supplicants in Coptic Sources: What, How, and Why?
  Chloé Agar (St Cross College, Oxford)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 15:00 - Changes over time in the global Multidimensional Poverty Index
  Professor Sabina Alkire (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 16:00 - Gandhian Satyagraha in the Mirror of Marxism
  Karuna Mantena (Columbia University)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Tuesday 26 January 2021

• 14:00 - Open Access Oxford: What's happening?
  Sarah Barkla (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 14:00 - Highway 31: A road trip through the heart of modern India
  Ed Simpson (SOAS< University of London)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 27 January 2021

• 17:00 - Refugees, escapees & migrants: International migration and the politics of naming displacement in the Biafran War
  Bonny Ibhawoh (Professor of History & Senator William McMaster Chair in Global Human Rights, McMaster University)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 28 January 2021

• 10:00 - Open Access: New Welcome Trust Policy
  Sarah Barkla (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Friday 29 January 2021

• 16:00 - Plagued Legacies: Rethinking Black Death Narratives
  Dr Nükhet Varlik (Rutgers University)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Iraq and Lebanon – Revolt Against Sectarianism?
  Maha Yahya ((Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Centre)), Maysoun Pachachi ((Film Director))
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 1 February 2021

• 12:30 - A Byzantine story of Allegory as told by John Tzetzes
  Alberto Ravani (Exeter College, Oxford)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 15:00 - Moderate internationally comparable MPI
  Dr Elina Scheja (Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 16:00 - The Making of "Veer Savarkar": Methods for Writing an Intellectual History
  Vinayak Chaturvedi (University of California, Irvine)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Tuesday 2 February 2021

• 14:00 - A Contrapuntal History of Hindustan
  Dr Manan Ahmed Asif (University of Columbia)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 3 February 2021

• 14:00 - Qatari Women and the Labour Market- Towards an Empowering Alternative
  Dr. Mawahib Abubakr (Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics)
  MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars
• 17:00 - The international refugee regime and postcolonial sovereignty: Algeria, refugees and the UNHCR, 1954-63
  Malika Rahal (Research Fellow, Institut d’histoire du temps présent), Benjamin Thomas White (Senior Lecturer in History, Glasgow University)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Friday 5 February 2021

• 16:00 - Colonial public spheres, liberal thought and indirect rule in interwar Africa
  Professor Emma Hunter (Edinburgh)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The Place of Religion After the Uprisings
  Shadi Hamid (Brookings), Nadia Oweidat (University of Kansa)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The Climate Emergency in LAC: threats and opportunities for sustainable development
  Alicia Barcena (Executive Secretary of the Economic Comission for Latin America and the Caribbean)
  ODID Special Lectures & Seminars

Monday 8 February 2021

• 12:30 - Discussing Byzantine stucco decoration (850-1453): people and materials
  Flavia Vanni (University of Birmingham)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 15:00 - Multidimensional Poverty Indices and Children: Four Measurement Strategies
  Mr Jakob Dirksen (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 16:00 - The Curious Career of Shunya: Politics and Metaphysics of Caste Thinking in India
  Prathama Banerjee (Centre for the Study of Developing Societies)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Tuesday 9 February 2021

• 14:00 - Open Access Oxford: What's happening?
  Sarah Barkla (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 14:00 - Delusional states: Love, Citzenship and resistance in Gilgit-Baltistan
  Dr Nosheen Ali (NYU)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The Arab and the Jewish Questions: Geographies of Engagement in Palestine and Beyond
  Bashir Bashir (Open University of Israel), Leila Farsakh (University of Massachusetts Boston), Amal Ghazal (Simon Fraser University), Brian Klug (Universiy of Oxford), Hadeel Abu Hussein (University of Oxford)
• 17:00 - PEN and Literary Activism: Colonial/Postcolonial/World
  Peter McDonald (Oxford), Rachel Potter (University of East Anglia), Laetitia Zecchini (CNRS, Paris)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Wednesday 10 February 2021

• 17:00 - Refugees, minority citizens and the law: Sindh’s deterritorialised partition
  Uttara Shahani (Postdoctoral researcher, RSC, University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Friday 12 February 2021

• 16:00 - “Stop the World”: The end of empire and the “break-up of Britain”
  Professor Stuart Ward (Copenhagen)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Libya: Past, Present and Future
  Anas al-Gomati (Sadeq Institute), Mary Fitzgerald (King's College London)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 15 February 2021

• 12:30 - Commemoration in Graffiti in the Late Antique East c. 300-700 CE
  Rachael Helen Banes (University of Birmingham)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 15:00 - Multidimensional Deprivation Index: an experimental measure for European developed countries
  Dr Cecilia Calderon (UNDP Human Development Report Office)
• 16:00 - Bedil’s Bisemic Ghazal Poetics
  Prashant Keshavmurthy (McGill University)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 17:00 - The Decline of Work and the Trouble with Masculinity
  Professor Raka Ray (UC Berkeley)
  Oxford Development Studies Annual Lectures

Tuesday 16 February 2021

• 14:00 - Encoutering Kabir: From Old Manuscripts to Living Oral Traditions
  Dr Linda Hess (Standford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 17 February 2021

• 17:00 - The Long Journey Home: African American Forced Migration & Exile from the Civil War to the Vietnam War.
  Saje Mathieu (Associate Professor of History, University of Minnesota)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Friday 19 February 2021

• 16:00 - Andrew Roth's End of Empire: An Unfinished History of Decolonization
  Professor Philip Murphy (School of Advanced Study)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Russia and the Arab Uprisings
  Vitaly Naumkin (Russian Academy of Sciences), Alexey Vasiliev (Russian Academy of Sciences)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 22 February 2021

• 12:30 - Growing up in Late Byzantium: A Life Course approach
  Stephanie Novasio (University of Birmingham)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 15:00 - Analysing Individual Deprivations alongside Household Poverty: Possibilities for Gendered, Intrahousehold, and Multidimensional Analyses
  The topic of this event has changed
  Dr Rizwan ul Haq (Pakistan Institute of Development Economics)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 16:00 - On Violence or the Civil War of 1947 and the Importance of Indian Political Thought
  Shruti Kapila (University of Cambridge)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 18:00 - Current Debates in the Study and Protection of Displaced LGBT+ People
  Eirene Chen (UNHCR), Dr Mengia Tschalaer (City University of New York), Dr Kate Pincock (Overseas Development Institute)
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures

Tuesday 23 February 2021

• 14:00 - Communist Internationalism and Decolonization in South Asia
  TBA
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 24 February 2021

• 14:00 - Debating the Law, Creating Gender
  Professor Irene Schneider ((Georg-August-Universität Göttingen))
  MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars
• 17:00 - Crucibles of Exile: Palestinian education and the politics of regeneration, 1948 - 1967
  Mezna Qato (Margaret Anstee Centre Research Fellow, University of Cambridge)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Friday 26 February 2021

• 13:00 - How to fight inequality? A conversation
  Various Speakers
• 16:00 - Empire and China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)
  Professor Krishan Kumar (Virginia)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Tunisia – Unfinished Revolutions (Held jointly with the British-Tunisian Society)
  Hela Ammar, Mohamed Kerrou (University of Tunis El Manar)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 1 March 2021

• 12:30 - The visibility of Aikaterine as a former empress (1059-63)
  Ewan Short (Cardiff University)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 15:00 - Inequality among the multidimensionally poor in over 100 countries
  Dr Maria Emma Santos (OPHI, CONICET)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 16:00 - Graduate Student Research Presentations
  Various Speakers
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Tuesday 2 March 2021

• 14:00 - The Play of the Guru: Braj Historical Poetry in Early Modern Punjab
  Dr Julie Vig (University of Toronto)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 3 March 2021

• 17:00 - Haitian refugees, the US state, and precedents for global border regimes
  A.Naomi Paik (Associate Professor of Asian American Studies, University of Illinois)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Friday 5 March 2021

• 09:00 - Global and Imperial History graduate student research presentations
  TBA
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Counter-Revolutions Vs. Counter-Marginalization Movements: (Re)Visiting the Online Tug-of-War a Decade After the Arab Spring
  Dr. Marc Owen Jones ((Hamad Bin Khalifa University)), Dr Sahar Mohamed Khamis ((University of Maryland))
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 8 March 2021

• 12:30 - Anti-Jewish Polemic in Anastasius of Sinai’s Hexaemeron
  Paul Ulishney (Christ Church, Oxford)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 15:00 - Growth elasticity of multidimensional poverty in India between 2005/06 and 2015/16
  Dr Suman Seth (University of Leeds)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 16:00 - Graduate Student Research Presentations
  Various Speakers
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Tuesday 9 March 2021

• 10:00 - Open Access: Your thesis, copyright & ORA
  David Watson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Tuula Lindgren (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - Writing Empire Across the Indies: Literature and Colonial Identities in British Malaya and the Dutch East Indies, c. 1780-1930
  Marijke Denger (Bern)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Wednesday 10 March 2021

• 17:00 - Rethinking forced migration: Legacies of the Greek-Turkish population exchange
  Asli Igsiz (Associate Professor of Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies, New York University)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Friday 12 March 2021

• 09:00 - Global and Imperial History graduate student research presentations
  TBA
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Annual Lecture - Iran and the Arab Uprisings: Opportunity Grasped or Squandered?
  Professor Anoush Ehteshami (Durham University)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 15 March 2021

• 12:30 - Manasses or not Manasses? Paraenetic poetry in Late Byzantium
  Giulia Maria Paoletti (Exeter College, Oxford)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar

Thursday 25 March 2021

• 14:00 - Young Lives Seminar “The impact of Covid-19 lockdown on physical domestic violence: Evidence from a list randomization experiment.”
  Douglas Scott (University of Oxford)

Monday 19 April 2021

• 15:00 - Horizontal and Intersecting Wealth Inequalities in Mozambique – 1997 to 2017
  Dr Ricardo Santos (UNU-WIDER)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty

Thursday 22 April 2021

• 14:00 - Young Lives Seminar The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Peru on food insecurity, the role of government support, and its potential implications for malnutrition
  Please email the Young Lives email address if you would like to attend and you will be sent a Teams invite.
  Katherine Curi (Young Lives Peru)
• 22:00 - Peace in the Age of Chaos: The Best Solution for a Sustainable Future
  Steve Killelea (Institute for Economics and Peace)

Monday 26 April 2021

• 12:30 - Rereading the "Canon" in Latin Late Antiquity: Exemplarity and Allusion in Macrobius’ Saturnalia
  Katherine Krauss (Somerville College, Oxford)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 15:00 - The Policy and Advocacy Use of Multidimensional Poverty Measures
  David Stewart (UNICEF), Sólrún (Sola) Engilbertsdóttir (UNICEF)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 16:00 - Theft of Time: Notes on Spolia and the Writing of Indian History
  Sudipta Sen (University of California, Davis)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Thursday 29 April 2021

• 14:00 - Open Access: How to make CC licences work for you
  Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Sarah Barkla (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - The Byzantine Near East: Opportunities and Hesitations
  Scott Johnson (University of Oklahoma)
  After Rome and Further East Seminar

Friday 30 April 2021

• 17:00 - Hamid Dabashi in conversation about his new book:The Last Muslim Intellectual: The Life and Legacy of Jalal Al-e Ahmad
  Hamid Dabashi ((Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York))
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 3 May 2021

• 12:30 - Defining the "Byzantine Variable" in Early Byzantine Italy: The Case of Liguria (500-700 CE)
  Alessandro Carabia (University of Birmingham)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 15:00 - The Impact of the Emergency Social Safety Net (ESSN) programme on multidimensional poverty of refugees in Turkey
  Nils Grede (World Food Programme)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 16:00 - Emotions and Temporalities. On Ghosts, Jinns and their Exorcism
  Margrit Pernau (Max Planck Institute for Human Development)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Tuesday 4 May 2021

• 14:00 - Open Access Oxford: What's happening?
  TBA
  Open Scholarship
• 14:00 - Maoists, peasant rebellion and state formation in post-colonial Northwest Pakistan
  Noaman G Ali (LUMS)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The Times of Rights and Writing
  Lyndsey Stonebridge
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Wednesday 5 May 2021

• 15:00 - Open Access: Authors, copyright and open access - making it work for you
  Sarah Barkla (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - The Rise of the Refugee Research Industry: Some Reflections
  Dr Mayssoun Sukarieh (Senior Lecturer in Middle Eastern Studies, King’s College London)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 6 May 2021

• 14:00 - The Challenges of School to Work Transition in Ethiopia, presented by Yisak Tafere and Alula Pankhurst
  Please email to request an invite.
  Yisak Tafere, Alula Pankhurst
• 17:00 - Monastic Documents and Islamic Governance in Abbasid Egypt
  Cecilia Palombo (Leiden University)
  After Rome and Further East Seminar

Monday 10 May 2021

• 12:30 - Feeling Repentance in Byzantium: A Study on the Literary Sources of Katanyktic Poetry
  Cristina Cocola (Universiteit Gent & Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 15:00 - "Our History": The Everyday Social and the Sense of Historical Touch
  Sundar Sarukkai (Centre for Society and Policy, Indian Institute of Science)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 15:00 - A Multi-Country Analysis of Multidimensional Poverty in Contexts of Forced Displacement
  Dr. Yeshwas Admasu Bogale (The World Bank)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty

Tuesday 11 May 2021

• 14:00 - The place of many moods: Udaipur's painted lands and India's eighteenth century
  Dipti Khera (NYU)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 14:00 - COVID-19 and longitudinal research: opportunities and challenges
  Sarah Baird (Gender and Adolescence Global Evidence), Marta Favara (University of Oxford), Talip Kilik (World Bank), Sarah Ssewanyana (Economic Policy Research Centre)
  Learning from longitudinal studies in LMIC countries: pre & post COVID
• 17:00 - “Reading Indigeneity across Cultures and Epistemologies: Problems, Methods, Solutions”
  Doro Wiese (Dusseldorf; WIRL research fellow, IAS, University of Warwick)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Wednesday 12 May 2021

• 14:00 - Women's Rights on The Altar of a Strategic Stake: The New Population Policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran
  Professor Marie Ladier-Fouladi ((CNRS)/CETOBaC)
  MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars
• 14:00 - Innovation in longitudinal research
  Yyannu Cruz (Inter-American Development Bank, IDB), Paul Glewwe (University of Minnesota), Claire Zanuso (French Development Agency, AFD), Juan León (GRADE)
  Learning from longitudinal studies in LMIC countries: pre & post COVID
• 15:00 - The Afterlives of Return and the Limits of Refugee Protection | Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture
  Professor Heath Cabot (Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh)
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures

Thursday 13 May 2021

• 14:00 - Doing and Adapting Longitudinal Research: What have we learned?
  Jo Boyden (Young Lives), Rebecca Hardy (UCL, CLOSER), Caroline Moreau (Johns Hopkins University, Global Early Adolescent Study), Virginia Morrow (Young Lives), Sabina Faiz Rashid (Brac University, Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence), Alan Sánchez (GRADE, Young Lives)
  Learning from longitudinal studies in LMIC countries: pre & post COVID
• 17:00 - Manichaean Roads
  Étienne de la Vaissière (École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris)
  After Rome and Further East Seminar

Friday 14 May 2021

• 14:00 - Special session: Longitudinal evidence on skills inequality in Peru
  This panel will be conducted in Spanish.
  Jorge Agüero (University of Connecticut), Alan Sánchez (GRADE)
  Learning from longitudinal studies in LMIC countries: pre & post COVID

Monday 17 May 2021

• 12:30 - Themistius and the Muses: Religion, Rhetoric, and Classical Statuary in Fourth-Century Constantinople
  Ben Kybett (Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 15:00 - Who is Being Left Behind? Closing the Horizontal Inequality Gap
  Professor Sabina Alkire (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative), Miss Fanni Kovesdi (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative), Dr Rachel Gisselquist (UNU-WIDER), Maren Andrea Jimenez (UN-DESA)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 16:00 - Pure Kashmir: Nature in the Political Thought of Sheikh Abdullah, Muhammad Iqbal and Jawaharlal Nehru
  Amar Sohal (University of Cambridge)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Tuesday 18 May 2021

• 10:30 - Time to Care: The intersection between social norms, unpaid care work and gender-based violence
  Amitabh Behar (CEO, Oxfam India), Diya Dutta (independent consultant, Oxfam GB & Oxfam US), Amita Pitre (Lead Specialist Gender Justice, Oxfam India)
  ODID Special Lectures & Seminars
• 14:00 - Open Access Oxford: What's happening?
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship
• 14:00 - Printing the Urdu public: Madinah newspaper and lithography as Muslim technology
  Megan Eaton Robb (Pennsylvania)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 19 May 2021

• 13:00 - With, for, or by refugees? Practical and ethical challenges of participatory research
  Dr Kate Pincock (Overseas Development Institute)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 20 May 2021

• 17:00 - Written Literature in the Kingdom of the Persian Sasanids
  Kevin van Bladel (Yale University)
  After Rome and Further East Seminar

Friday 21 May 2021

• 17:00 - War on Bodies: Moral Immunity and the Psychopolitics of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Iran
  Dr Orkideh Behrouzan (SOAS University of London), Dr Maziyar Ghiabi (Wellcome Trust Lecturer in Medical Humanities, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter)

Saturday 22 May 2021

• 16:00 - The Sudanese Programme - Youth, Inclusivity and Participation in Politics, the Economy and Society
  Various Speakers

Monday 24 May 2021

• 12:30 - Between the Living and the Dead: Use, Reuse, and Imitation of Painted Portraits in Late Antiquity
  Grace Stafford (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 15:00 - Using multidimensional poverty and vulnerability indices to inform equitable policies and interventions in health emergencies
  Dr. NILUKA WIJEKOON KANNANGARAGE (WHO), Juan Daniel Oviedo (DANE Colombia)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 16:00 - POSTPONED - Freedom Between Order and Chaos: Reading a Political Satire From India
  Jyotirmaya Sharma (Lichtenberg-Kolleg, University of Göttingen)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Wednesday 26 May 2021

• 17:00 - Critical Localism: Reflections on the Localisation of Humanitarian Action in Theory and (Research) Practice
  Dr Kristina Roepstorff (IFHV, Bochum university)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 27 May 2021

• 17:00 - The Making of the Marwanid "Language Reform": Translations, Economic Incentives, and Scribal Training in the Umayyad State
  Marie Legendre (University of Edinburgh)
  After Rome and Further East Seminar
• 19:00 - Oxford Syria Society Event with Dr. Sami Moubayed and Dr. Eugene Rogan: On the Syrian National Congress of 1919
  Various Speakers

Friday 28 May 2021

• 10:00 - Open Access: Your thesis, copyright & ORA
  David Watson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Tuula Lindgren (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Monday 31 May 2021

• 12:30 - Ageing, Rejuvenation and Patronage in Twelfth-Century Byzantium
  Josh Hitt (St Hilda's College, Oxford)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 16:00 - A Historian among the Goddesses of Modern India
  Sumathi Ramaswamy (Duke University)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Tuesday 1 June 2021

• 17:00 - "The Form and Function of Disaffection"
  Tanya Agathocleous (Hunter College, CUNY)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Wednesday 2 June 2021

• 14:00 - Negotiating Respectability between the Space of the Prison and the Place of Woman, Egypt 1946-1965.
  Dr Hannah Elsisi (Pembroke College, University of Cambridge)
• 17:00 - Digital methodologies in forced migration and refugee research: rethinking voices, representation and power
  Professor Giorgia Donà (Centre for Migration, Refugees and Belonging, University of East London)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 3 June 2021

• 14:00 - Webinar: Refugees or labour migrants? From the Middle East to the world, 1920s-2020s
  Professor Laura Robson (Penn State University), Dr Ann-Christian Zuntz (University of Edinburgh), Dr Victoria Abrahamyan (Université de Neuchâtel)
• 14:00 - Young men and women's work experiences in Ethiopia
  Alula Pankhurst
• 17:00 - Applying the Lens of Unfreedom to Early Islamic History: Possibilities and Challenges
  Elizabeth Urban (West Chester University)
  After Rome and Further East Seminar

Monday 7 June 2021

• 12:30 - Monastic Presence and Book Circulation in the Lands North of the Danube (15th-16th Centuries)
  Constanța Burlacu (Merton College, Oxford)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 16:00 - Monuments in Replica: Imperial Commemorations in Britain and its Colonies
  Durba Ghosh (Cornell University)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Wednesday 9 June 2021

• 17:00 - Syrian Refugees and Local Assistance in Berlin
  Yahya Alaous (Founder, Zusammenwachsen NGO; Journalist, Die Suddeutsche Zeitung)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 10 June 2021

• 17:00 - "Those Who Pray Without Ceasing": Ascetic Reading and Recitation in the Qur'an
  Nora K Schmid (Oxford)
  After Rome and Further East Seminar

Monday 14 June 2021

• 12:30 - (Re)contextualising a Late Antique City through the Ceramic Record: The Case of Dion in Macedonia (Pieria, Greece)
  Kyriakos Fragkoulis (University of Birmingham)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 16:00 - Conceptual Problems in Distinguishing Global from Planetary Histories
  Dipesh Chakrabarty (The University of Chicago)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Thursday 17 June 2021

• 14:00 - Foundational cognitive skills and executive functions in Young Lives
  Marta Favara (University of Oxford)
• 17:00 - Prosopgraphy as a Tool for Microhistory and Macrohistory. A Close Examination of P. Lond. IV 1447
  Naïm Vanthieghem (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris)
  After Rome and Further East Seminar

Thursday 1 July 2021

• 14:00 - Early Childhood undernutrition and growth catch-ups in mid-childhood contribute to gender disparity in adolescent cognitive outcomes
  Duc Le Thuc (University of Oxford), Nguyen Thang (University of Oxford)

Thursday 15 July 2021

• 14:00 - Young Lives Seminar 'Returns to Human Capital during a Negative Economic Shock' with Marcello Perez-Alvarez
  Marcello Perez (Assistant Professor of Development Economics at Erlangen-Nürnberg University (FAU))

Friday 16 July 2021

• 15:00 - Webinar: Challenges and rewards of integrating qualitative and quantitative data in gender research
  If you want to be updated on the upcoming seminars you can subscribe to our newsletter: http://eepurl.com/hyNYND. You can share this subscription link with anyone who may be interested. We keep your email solely for the purpose of disseminating this newsletter approximately two times a month. You can unsubscribe anytime. We do not share your data with any of the third party.
  Dr. Ruth Meinzen-Dick (Senior Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute)
  Gender, Research and Action in the Global South

Thursday 23 September 2021

• 14:00 - "Envisioning a More Equitable Future: Using Multidimensional Poverty Indices as a Policy Tool" High-Level Side Event at the 76th UN General Assembly
  Various Speakers

Monday 4 October 2021

• 17:00 - Classical Learning and the Politics of the Common Good in Early China
  The talk will be conducted in hybrid format. The in-person part of the event has limited space (max. 18 people) and pre-booking is required. If you are an Oxford student or staff member and wish to book a space, please contact Giulia Falato (giulia.falato@orinst.ox.ac.uk). To attend online, please see registration details below.
  Professor Michael Nylan (University of California, Berkeley)
  China Studies Seminar series

Monday 11 October 2021

• 16:00 - The making of a populist: Entering politics and autonomy-seeking in contemporary India
  Dr Jean-Thomas Martelli (Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 16:00 - Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2021 - Unmasking Disparities: Ethnicity, Race, and Gender
  Professor Sabina Alkire (University of Oxford), Heriberto Tapia (UNDP HDRO), Yanchun Zhang (UNDP HDRO), Sophie Scharlin-Pettee (University of Oxford)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 17:00 - The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives - Opening session
  Full conference agenda can be found here: https://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/webinar_series_programme_0.pdf
  Cyrus Schayegh, Stephanie Cronin (University of Oxford)
  The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives

Tuesday 12 October 2021

• 13:00 - Open Access: UKRI Policy briefing
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Ruth Mallalieu (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Beth Gibbs (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 14:00 - Borders and Identities: Who is a “Bangladeshi” in Assam?
  Malini Sur (University of Western Sydney)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 13 October 2021

• 17:30 - Encountering the refugee camp beyond recognition
  Numbers will be limited, and you will be asked to register upon arrival.
  Dr Aya Musmar (University of Petra)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 14 October 2021

• 17:00 - An Archive of Comparison: Between Adab, Wenxue and Literature
  Professor Michael Gibbs Hill (William & Mary)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 15 October 2021

• 13:00 - The Construction of the Civil Service in China: Issues and Suggestions
  Talks are delivered in Mandarin, followed by bilingual Q&As
  Professor Guirong MAO (Meijigakuin University)
  Mandarin Forum
• 14:30 - The Future of Foreign Policy is Feminist - Insights from building a feminist startup to change the status quo of foreign policy
  Kristina Lunz (Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series
• 16:00 - Violent Fraternity: Indian Political Thought in the Global Age
  Dr Shruti Kapila (Cambridge)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Roundtable: The Environment and the Middle East
  Various Speakers

Monday 18 October 2021

• 14:00 - Open Access Oxford: what's happening?
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship
• 16:00 - Savarkar and the Making of Hindutva “Secularism”
  Dr Vikram Visana (University of Huddersfield)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 16:00 - On Data Availability for Assessing Monetary and Multidimensional Poverty
  Change of topic for this session. The original session is postponed.
  Professor Sabina Alkire (University of Oxford), Yanchun Zhang (UNDP HDRO), Heriberto Tapia (UNDP HDRO)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 17:00 - The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives Webinar Series - Transnationalism in the Middle East
  Full conference agenda can be found here: https://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/webinar_series_programme_0.pdf
  Marral Shamshiri-Fard, Jeremy Randall, Fadi Kafeety, Dr Toby Matthiesen (LSE), Golnar Nikpour
  The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives

Tuesday 19 October 2021

• 14:00 - Affect as a Technology of Rule: Militarism in Pakistan
  Maria Rashid (UCL)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Postcolonial Writing and Theory Seminar - ‘The politics of extinction in Henrietta Rose-Innes’s Green Lion’
  Filippo Menozzi (Liverpool John Moores)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Wednesday 20 October 2021

• 17:30 - Gender and humanitarian representations of Syrian refugees during displacement
  Numbers will be limited and you will be asked to register upon arrival.
  Dr Michelle Lokot (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 21 October 2021

• 17:00 - The Politics of Financial Control in China: Mutual Endangerment in State-Business Relations
  Professor Meg Rithmire (Harvard University)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 22 October 2021

• 12:00 - Red/White/Yellow: Considering the Racial Situation in Japan from the Perspective of Marriage Discrimination Experienced by Ainu Women
  TBA
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
• 16:00 - Colombo as Idea and Artefact
  Professor Sujit Sivasundaram (Cambridge)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - From Economic Fantasy to Ecological Reality on Climate Change
  Professor Steve Keen (UCL)
  Climate Change and the Challenges of Development
• 17:00 - MEC Friday Webinar Series - Dr Hussam Hussein - The politics of water scarcity in the case of Jordan
  Registration is essential
  Dr. Hussam Hussein, Lecturer in International Relations at DPIR, Oxford Martin School Fellow in Water Diplomacy, and Fulford Junior Research Fellow at Somerville College
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 25 October 2021

• 12:30 - Holy Fools in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Rus
  Sofia Simões Coelho (Oxford)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 16:00 - Feminist Historiography and the Political: Reflections on the Past and Future Tense
  Professor Mrinalini Sinha (University of Michigan)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 16:00 - Measuring the Statistical Capacity of Nations
  Professor James Foster (Georges Washington University)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 17:00 - The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives Webinar Series - A Global Palestine
  Full conference agenda can be found here: https://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/webinar_series_programme_0.pdf
  Sune Haugbolle, Pelle Valentin Olsen, Sorcha Thomson, Ilan Pappé
  The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives

Tuesday 26 October 2021

• 14:00 - Decolonise Mosquitoes
  Rohan Deb Roy (University of Reading)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:45 - Young Lives Data Presentation
  Mr Richard Freund (Young Lives), Annina Hittmeyer (Young Lives), Maria Molina (Young Lives)

Wednesday 27 October 2021

• 17:30 - Refugeedom’s Subjects and Subjectivities
  Numbers will be limited and registration will be required on arrival.
  Dr Arek Dakessian (Queen Margaret University of Edinburgh)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 28 October 2021

• 17:00 - ‘Cybersecurity and Informatization: Restructuring Chinese Governance Through Technology’
  Dr Rogier Creemers (Leiden University)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:30 - Refugee Entrepreneurship and Gender Paradoxes
  Numbers will be limited and you will be asked to register upon arrival.
  Dr Farah Al Taji (Al-Balqa University)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Friday 29 October 2021

• 13:00 - ‘The Devil is in the Details’: Mao Zedong before and after the Luochuan Conference, August 1937
  Talks are delivered in Mandarin, followed by bilingual Q&As
  Dr Sherman Xiaogang Lai (Queen’s University at Kingston and the Royal Military College of Canada)
  Mandarin Forum
• 15:30 - Book discussion on 'Mountain Tales: Love and Loss in the Municipality of Castaway Belongings' by Saumya Roy
  Saumya Roy (Journalist and activist)
• 16:00 - The 1972 Ugandan Asian Expulsion: Making a Transnational Diaspora fit a World of Nation-States
  Dr Ria Kapoor (Manchester)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - MEC Friday Webinar Series - The Blue-Clad Fennec: Authoritarian Environmentalism in Tunisia, and its Afterlives
  Registration essential.
  Dr. Jamie Furniss, Institut de recherche sur le Maghreb contemporain (Tunis)/Department of Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 1 November 2021

• 12:30 - Julian, Constantinople, and the Role of Civic Patriotism in the Fourth Century
  Thomas R Langley (Cambridge)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 16:00 - The Nomos of the Globe: Currency, Empire and Financialization
  Professor Ritu Birla (University of Toronto)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 17:00 - The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives Webinar Series - Maoism in the Middle East and North Africa
  Full conference agenda can be found here: https://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/webinar_series_programme_0.pdf
  Jiayi Zhu, William Figueroa, Leonard Michael, Idriss Jebari, Afshin Matin-Asgari
  The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives

Tuesday 2 November 2021

• 14:00 - The Lessons of 1950: Partition, and the making of the India- Pakistan Dynamic
  Pallavi Raghavan (Ashoka University, Delhi)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - ‘Acts of Resistance: Writing Reproductive Dystopia’ and ‘States of exception and narrative humanity in detention narratives’
  Sarah Waltcher (University of Oxford), Chelsea Haith (University of Oxford)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Wednesday 3 November 2021

• 09:30 - The 6th Sino-UK Innovation and Development Forum
  Various Speakers
• 17:15 - Creating a Concept: ‘Friendship’ in International Relations
  Felix Berenskötter (Head of Department and Senior Lecturer in International Relations at SOAS, University of London)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series
• 17:30 - "A Refugee-Led Study on Refugee-Led Organisations" | RSC/BIEA Refugee Led Research Hub
  We are hoping to make this a hybrid event. If you would like to be here in person, please be aware that this option is only available to students and staff of the University of Oxford, numbers are limited, and you may be asked to register on arrival.
  Abis Getachew, Andhira Kara, Mary Gitahi, Uwezo Ramazani, Mark Okello
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 4 November 2021

• 09:30 - Inclusive Digital Model (IDMODEL) China High Level Conference
  Various Speakers
• 17:00 - Classical Learning and the Politics of the Common Good in Early China
  The talk will be conducted in hybrid format. The in-person part of the event has limited space (max. 18 people) and pre-booking is required. If you are an Oxford student or staff member and wish to book a space, please contact Giulia Falato (giulia.falato@orinst.ox.ac.uk). To attend online, please see registration details below.
  Professor Michael Nylan (University of California, Berkeley)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 5 November 2021

• 16:00 - Intimate Solidarities: Mobility and Hospitality in the Women’s International Socialist Movement 1955-1970
  Dr Su Lin Lewis (Bristol)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The Cinematic Reenactment of Naomi Kawase
  TBA
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
• 17:00 - MEC Friday Webinar Series -Environment Discounted: Energy and Economic Diversification Plans in the Gulf
  Dr. Manal Shehabi, Academic Visitor, St. Antony's College, University of Oxford; Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 8 November 2021

• 12:30 - Michael VIII Palaiologos and the southern shore of Constantinople
  Jessica Varsallona (Birmingham)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 16:00 - Freedoms after Freedom: Lawyering as Political Practice in Post-Independent India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka
  Professor Rohit De (Yale University)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 16:00 - Social Protection and Multidimensional Poverty
  Dr Liyousew Borga (University of Luxembourg), Dr Conchita D’Ambrosio (University of Luxembourg)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 17:00 - The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives Webinar Series - Late Pahlavi Iran
  Full conference agenda can be found here: https://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/webinar_series_programme_0.pdf
  Ali Mirsepassi, Arash Azizi, Siavush Ranjbar Daemi, Edmund Herzig
  The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives

Tuesday 9 November 2021

• 14:00 - Citizenship, Publicness and the Politics of Inclusive Democracy in India
  Suryakant Waghmore (IIT-Bombay), Hugo Gorringe (University of Edinburgh)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Climate Diplomacy: Indigenous Voices on Negotiating Climate Action
  Terri-Lynn Williams-Davidson, Gidahl-Guudsdllyaay (Counsel to the Haida Nation, artist and Masters student, UBC Law), Beze Gray (Two-spirit climate youth activist and Anishnaabe land/water protector), Deborah McGregor (Research Chair in Indigenous Environmental Justice at York University)
  Climate Change and the Challenges of Development

Wednesday 10 November 2021

• 17:00 - 'Empire, Asylum, and Refugee Responsibility Sharing' l The Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture 2021
  E. Tendayi Achiume
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures
• 17:00 - The Tunisian Political Crisis; the end of Democracy?
  Registration essential
  Youssef Cherif (Director, Columbia Global Centers|Tunis), Dr Anne Wolf (Fellow, All Souls College, University of Oxford)

Thursday 11 November 2021

• 10:00 - Open Access: UKRI Policy briefing
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Ruth Mallalieu (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Beth Gibbs (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - Rural Development in China and East Asia
  Professor Kristen Looney (Georgetown University)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 12 November 2021

• 13:00 - Missionary Yijing in Qing China: Dialogues between the Yijing and the Bible
  Talks are delivered in Mandarin, followed by bilingual Q&As
  Professor John T. P. LAI (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
  Mandarin Forum
• 16:00 - Russian Turkestan and the First World War
  Dr Alexander Morrison (New College, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Air Pollution, Toxicity, and Environmental Politics in the History of Iranian Oil Nationalisation
  Registration essential
  Dr Mattin Biglari (SOAS London)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 15 November 2021

• 12:00 - Open Access: UKRI Policy briefing
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Ruth Mallalieu (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Beth Gibbs (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 12:30 - The Athanasian Emperors: Reconsidering Orthodox and Heretical Emperors in the 340s
  Nicola Ernst (Exeter)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 15:00 - Afghanistan: What went wrong? Who is to blame? What next?
  Please note this is open to members of Oxford University only. Please register using your Oxford email address.
  Peter W Galbraith (former US diplomat)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series
• 16:00 - They Refused to Tell Me Their Dreams: Psychoanalysis, Colonialism, Trans
  Dr Akshi Singh (Queen Mary University of London)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 16:00 - On Track or Not? Projecting the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index
  Dr Nicolai Suppa (OPHI, CED)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 17:00 - The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives Webinar Series - Lebanon
  Full conference agenda can be found here: https://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/webinar_series_programme_0.pdf
  Nathaniel George, Yvonne Albers, Zeina Maasri, Fadi Bardawil
  The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives

Tuesday 16 November 2021

• 14:00 - Hidden histories of science; Ammal, Darlington, Haldane, and India, 1930-1060
  Vinita Damodaran (Sussex)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - ‘Unmasking Violence, Writing Nostalgia: Revisiting the Socialist Period in Angolan Art and Literature’
  Dorothée Boulanger (University of Oxford)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Wednesday 17 November 2021

• 13:15 - Policy challenges to reducing poverty in Nigeria
  Ambassador Adeyemi Dipeolu (Special Adviser to the President on Economic Matters in the Office of the Vice President of Nigeria), Dr Simon B. Harry (Statistician-General of the Federation and Chief Executive of the National Bureau of Statistics Nigeria), Mr Iorwa Apera (National Coordinator, National Social Safety Net Coordinating Office (NASSCO)), Ms Sola Afolayan (National Coordinator for the MPI, National Social Investment Office (NSIO))
• 16:00 - Social Change through Presence: White Marriage in Iran
  Dr Maral Sahebjame (Near and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Washington)
  MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars
• 17:30 - African Migration, Human Rights and Literature
  Professor Fareda Banda
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 18 November 2021

• 17:00 - Dog Days and Salted Fish: Malaise of Indolence among Young Migrant Café Workers in Shanghai
  TBA
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 19 November 2021

• 14:00 - Decolonising research: strategies from a feminist perspective
  Dr. Michelle Lokot (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM))
  Gender, Research and Action in the Global South
• 16:00 - From Bohemia to Balintawak, Baku to Bandung, Antananarivo and Guangzhou to Điện Biên Phủ: Cosmopolitan Circuitries of Revolution in Southeast Asia
  Professor John T Sidel (London School of Economics)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Failing Flows: The Politics of Water Management in Southern Iraq
  Registration essential
  Dr Michael Mason (Director of the Middle East Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 22 November 2021

• 12:30 - Roman? Greek? Byzantine? Some thoughts on the trial of Maximus the Confessor and Roman identity
  Callan Meynell (Oxford)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 14:00 - Sharing Food, Vulnerability and Intimacy in a Global Pandemic: The Digital Art of the Chinese Diaspora in Europe
  Professor Hongwei Bao (University of Nottingham)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 16:00 - British Imperial Thought, British Nationality, and Overseas Indians after 1947
  Dr Ian Sanjay Patel (London School of Economics)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 16:00 - Predicting and Mapping MPI using Geospatial and Combined Disparate Data Sources
  Dr Neeti Pokhriyal (Dartmouth), Dr Damien Christophe Jacques (Louvain)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 17:00 - The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives Webinar Series - The Developmental State
  Full conference agenda can be found here: https://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/webinar_series_programme_0.pdf
  Touraj Atabaki, Max Ajl, Philip Marfleet, Cyrus Schayegh
  The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives
• 17:00 - Rethinking the Sahel: Climate, Social Capital and Knowledge
  Nora Berrahmouni (FAO), Ousseyne Kalilou (Chair of the Forest Interest Group of the Environmental Peacebuilding Association), Dr Cheikh Mbow (University of Pretoria)
  Climate Change and the Challenges of Development

Tuesday 23 November 2021

• 14:00 - Atrocity Nation / State Amnesia : The Photographic Debris of the Sri Lankan Civil War
  Vindhya Buthpitiya (University of St Andrews)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The Battle of Images: The Sino-Hollywood Negotiation
  Prof. Ying Zhu (Hong Kong Baptist University)
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China

Wednesday 24 November 2021

• 17:00 - History on the Margins: The Problem of Persian Historiography in the Deccan Sultanates
  Dr Roy Fischel (Department of History, SOAS)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:30 - Subcontinental Defiance to the Global Refugee Regime: Global Leadership or Regional Exceptionalism
  Jay Ramasubramanyam (York University, Toronto)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 25 November 2021

• 11:00 - Open Access Oxford: What's happening?
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Ruth Mallalieu (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Beth Gibbs (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - Afghanistan and the Middle East
  Dr Ibrahim al-Marashi (California State University), Kate Clark (Journalist)

Friday 26 November 2021

• 13:00 - The Reform of the Legal System of Taxation in China in the Last Two Decades and Future Prospects
  Talks are delivered in Mandarin, followed by bilingual Q&As
  Professor Yan XU (China University of Political Science and Law)
  Mandarin Forum
• 16:00 - The Law of Force: The Violent Heart of Indian Politics
  Professor Thomas Blom Hansen (Stanford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Climate, Colonialism, and Zionism in Palestine (1882-1948): New Historiographical Perspectives
  Dr Netta Cohen (Christ Church, Oxford University)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 29 November 2021

• 12:30 - Byzantine Catholics (exact title TBC)
  John-Francis Martin (Oxford)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 12:30 - Reimagining the World Order: Chinese Literary Conventions and the Representation of International Relations in the Mongol Yuan Dynasty
  Dr Ming Tak Ted Hui (University of Oxford)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 16:00 - The Option of Nonviolence
  Dr Humeira Iqtidar (King's College London)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 16:00 - Distributional Impacts of Cash Transfers on the Multidimensional Poverty of Refugees: The ESSN programme in Turkey
  Dr Matthew Robson (University of York)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 17:00 - The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives Webinar Series - Gender in the Global Middle East and North Africa
  Full conference agenda can be found here: https://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/webinar_series_programme_0.pdf
  Faika Çelik, Aliye Gamze Sarıtunalı, Amy Kallander, Hannah Elsisi Ashmawi, Laleh Khalili
  The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives
• 17:00 - SDG Impact Lab launch event
  For more information about the Lab and how to apply to be a fellow go to our website: sdglab.uk
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 30 November 2021

• 17:00 - POSTPONED - Postcolonial Writing and Theory Seminar - Title TBC
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Carolyn Burdett (Birkbeck, University of London)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Wednesday 1 December 2021

• 16:00 - Surviving the 21st Century
  Space is limited to 38 people.
  TBA
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series
• 17:30 - The Changing Contestations of Deportation in the UK: From Race to Asylum and Humanity
  Diletta Lauro (University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 2 December 2021

• 16:00 - Virtual Book Launch - The Politics of Food Provisioning in Colombia: Agrarian Movements and Negotiations with the State
  Various Speakers

Friday 3 December 2021

• 16:00 - Empire of the Sand? Persian Gulf “Piracy”, the French threat to India, and British imperial responses
  Dr Guillemette Crouzet (Warwick)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - What does political ecology tell us about the environmental crises in the Middle East
  Registration essential
  Dr Christian Henderson, Assistant Professor at Leiden Institute for Area Studies, Leiden University
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Land, territory, agroecology and climate change
  Joelson Ferreira de Oliveira (Activist and teacher)
  Climate Change and the Challenges of Development

Monday 6 December 2021

• 12:30 - The Case Romane del Celio: Living in Rome in Late Antiquity
  Kelly E McClinton (Oxford)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 16:00 - Why are Kurdish people risking their lives to seek asylum?
  Kamal Chomani
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures

Monday 13 December 2021

• 12:30 - The Many Byzantine Chrysostoms: A Look at Competing Sanctification Narratives at the Heart of Byzantine Spirituality
  Mark Huggins (Edinburgh)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar

Thursday 16 December 2021

• 14:00 - Open Access Oxford: What's happening?
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Ruth Mallalieu (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Beth Gibbs (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Monday 10 January 2022

• 15:00 - Undoing Discriminatory Borders
  Professor Shreya Atrey (University of Oxford), Professor E. Tendayi Achiume ((UCLA and UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance)), Professor Cathryn Costello (Hertie School and University of Oxford), Dr Catherine Briddick (University of Oxford), Professor Anuscheh Farahat (Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg), Professor Liav Orgad (WZB, EUI, IDC, STL), Professor Colm O’Cinneide (UCL)
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures

Wednesday 12 January 2022

• 15:00 - Oxford Political Thought Seminar - Caliphate
  Hüseyin Yilmaz (George Mason University), Elizabeth Alexandrin (University of Manitoba)
  Contemporary Islamic Studies Programme

Monday 17 January 2022

• 15:00 - Open Access Oxford: What's happening?
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), David Phillips (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 16:00 - Rule by Fear: Conceptualizing Democracy and Authoritarianism in Pakistan
  Dr Ammar Ali Jan (Haqooq-e-Khalq Movement)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Tuesday 18 January 2022

• 14:00 - Researching South Asia: Kashmir
  Mona Bhan (Syracuse University), Mohamad Junaid (MCLA), Hafsa Kanjwal (Lafayette College)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - ‘Imagining Manila’
  Tom Sykes (University of Portsmouth), Ann Ang (Wadham College)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Wednesday 19 January 2022

• 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

• 17:00 - Distant Shores: Colonial Encounters on China’s Maritime Frontier
  TBA
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 21 January 2022

• 13:00 - Making Sustainable Urbanization in China: Environmental Externalities, Income Inequality and Resources Governance in the Post-carbon Era
  Mandarin presentation; English PPT; bilingual Q&As
  Professor Xiaoling Zhang (City University of Hong Kong)
  Mandarin Forum
• 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 and 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

• 13:00 - Being Transgender in China: Trans Celebrity, Queer Activism and Feminist Politics
  Professor Hongwei Bao (University of Nottingham)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 16:00 - How 'Dynasty' Became a Modern Global Concept: Intellectual Histories of Sovereignty and Property
  Dr Milinda Banerjee (University of St Andrews)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Tuesday 25 January 2022

• 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

• 15:00 - Social Cohesion as a Humanitarian Objective?
  Cory Rodgers (Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures
• 15:00 - Oxford Political Thought Seminar - Religion
  Madawi al-Rasheed (LSE), Pascal Menoret (Brandeis University)
  Contemporary Islamic Studies Programme
• 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

Friday 28 January 2022

• 16:00 - The Problem of Legal Pluralism in the Eighteenth-Century British Empire
  Dr Hunter Harris (Nuffield College, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The Fate of Colonial Elites in Post-Colonial Regimes: Evidence from the 1952 Egyptian Revolution
  Dr Neil Ketchley (Associate Professor in Politics, St Antony’s College)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 31 January 2022

• 16:00 - "Downward Equalization”: A Gandhian Inversion of Dignity and Rights-Claims
  Professor Manu Samnotra (University of South Florida)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Tuesday 1 February 2022

• 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

• 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
• 17:00 - Informal Unions in MENASA: A New Form of Cohabitation?
  Janet Afary (Mellichamp Chair, Professor of Religious Studies, University of California Santa Barbara), Roger Friedland (Dept of Sociology, University of California Santa Barbara)
  MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars

Thursday 3 February 2022

• 17:00 - The Future Is Now: Theory and Method of the Newborn Socialist Thing
  Professor Laurence Coderre (New York University)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 4 February 2022

• 13:00 - The Impact of COVID-19 on Mental Health and Beyond: Reflections from China
  Mandarin Forum: Mandarin presentation, English PPT, bilingual Q&As
  TBA
  Mandarin Forum
• 16:00 - The most illuminating thing I have ever seen’: Photography, Violence and the Bud Dajo Massacre of 1906
  Dr Kim Wagner (QMUL)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - HYBRID EVENT - 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

• 12:30 - Avitus of Vienne and Roman Approaches to Burgundian Royal Women: Ascetics, Virgins and Heretics
  Becca Grose (Royal Holloway)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 13:00 - Typographic Bodies: Futurist Biopoetics in Republican China
  Dr Chloe Estep (Columbia University)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 16:00 - A Debatable Empire
  Dr Mishka Sinha (St John's, Oxford)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 16:00 - Multidimensional Poverty and Children in Punjab, Pakistan
  Rizwan ul Haq (University of Oxford)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty

Tuesday 8 February 2022

• 14:00 - Researching South Asia: Climate Change
  Various Speakers
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 9 February 2022

• 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
• 15:00 - Oxford Political Thought Seminar - Sovereignty
  Neguin Yavari (University of Leipzig), Samy Ayoub (University of Texas-Austin)
  Contemporary Islamic Studies Programme
• 17:00 - Security Imperialism
  Professor Catherine Besteman (Colby College)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Abrahamic Interpretations of the Sacrifice of Abraham’s Son
  Dr Edward Kessler MBE (Founder-President of the Woolf Institute, University of Cambridge)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Friday 11 February 2022

• 16:00 - International Law and War in the White British Empire: Ireland and South Africa 1899-1921
  Dr Lia Brazil (Nuffield College, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - HYBRID EVENT - Book Launch: 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

• 12:30 - Manzikert 1071: The Arabic and Persian Poetry
  Marc Czarnuszewicz (St Andrews)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 16:00 - Waiting for the People: Anticolonialism and the Idea of Democracy in India
  Dr Nazmul Sultan (University of Cambridge)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 16:00 - Extending Multidimensional Poverty Identification. From Additive Weights to Minimal Bundles
  Sam Jones (UNU-WIDER)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 16:15 - Religion and World Politics: Presence, Absence or Resurgence?
  This event is open to members of the University only; spaces are limited.
  Ali Al Youha (DPIR, University of Oxford)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series

Tuesday 15 February 2022

• 14:00 - MPPN - OPHI Side Event to the 53rd UN Statistical Commission: Using Multidimensional Poverty Data to Leave No One Behind
  https://mppn.org/mppn-side-event-unsc-2022/
  Various Speakers
• 17:00 - Postcolonial Criticism today--the state of the art
  Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford), Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford), Rob Nixon (Princeton), Ato Quayson (Stanford), Poulomi Saha (Berkeley), Jennifer Wenzel (Columbia), Robert Young (NYU)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Wednesday 16 February 2022

• 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
• 17:00 - A New Cold War in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)?
  Dr Guy Burton (Adjunct Professor, Brussels School of Governance), Dr Christopher M. Davidson (Associate fellow, RUSI), Dr Diana Galeeva (Academic Visitor to St. Antony’s College, Oxford University), Dr Michael Willis (St. Antony's College, Oxford University)

Thursday 17 February 2022

• 11:00 - Open Access Oxford: What's happening?
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Polly Bannister (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - Back Down to the Countryside: Contextualizing the Fanxiangqingnian ‘Return Youth’ Phenomenon, A Case Study of Heyang Village
  Linda Qian (University of Oxford)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 18 February 2022

• 13:00 - Developing 'Street Brains': Actors and Smart City Governance at Neighbourhood Level in Beijing
  Mandarin presentation; English PPT; bilingual Q&As
  Shuwen Zhou, (University of Oxford)
  Mandarin Forum
• 16:00 - A Zambian not at Bandung and the uses of global biography
  **THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED**
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Ismay Milford (Edinburgh)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - HYBRID EVENT - All Jihad 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
• 17:00 - Climate Change, Agrarian Transformation, and the Origins of COVID-19
  Dr Li Zhang (University of California, Irvine)
  Climate Change and the Challenges of Development

Monday 21 February 2022

• 12:30 - The Minority Experience of a Central Asian Christian Community, Explored Through Syriac Gravestone Inscriptions (c. 1201-1345) from the Chu Valley, Kyrgyzstan
  Benjamin Sharkey (Oxford)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 16:00 - The Infrastructure of Rumor: Development and Democracy in a Postcolony
  Professor Nusrat S. Chowdhury (Amherst College)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 16:00 - Profiling gendered multidimensional poverty and inequality in post-apartheid South Africa
  Kehinde O. Omotoso
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty

Tuesday 22 February 2022

• 10:00 - Open Access: Your thesis, copyright & ORA
  David Watson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 14:00 - Joint African Studies/South Asian Centre Seminar: Queer Politics
  Dr Adriaan Van Klinken (University of Leeds), Erick Keizi (Cosmopolitan Affirming Community, Nairobi)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 23 February 2022

• 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
• 15:00 - Oxford Political Thought Seminar - Violence
  Murad Idris (University of Michigan), Nesrine Badawi (American University in Cairo)
  Contemporary Islamic Studies Programme
• 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
• 17:00 - Threatened motherhood in the Israeli welfare state: The discourse and the practice behind the disqualification of disadvantaged women's motherhood
  Prof. Esther Hertzog (Social Anthropologist, Zefat Academic College)
  MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars
• 17:00 - Reflections on the Arab Spring Ten Years On
  Sir Geoffrey Adams KCMG (British Ambassador to Egypt (2018-2021))
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 24 February 2022

• 17:00 - (Film showing) 'Lebanon. Explosion of Anger' film by Krzysztof Dzięciołowski
  Michael Willis (St. Antony's College), Raphaël Lefèvre (Department of Politics and International Relations), Krzysztof Dzięciołowski
• 17:00 - Jokebooks and Humour Publications in Late-Ming China
  Dr Elizabeth Smithrosser (International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 25 February 2022

• 09:30 - Nobel Prize Laureate Prof Mohammad Yunus to speak at IDMODEL final conference.
  Various Speakers
• 16:00 - Modes of Historical Analysis: Digital Approaches to Global and Imperial History
  Professor James Smithies (KCL)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - HYBRID EVENT - The Global Merchants: The Enterprise and Extravagance of the Sassoon Dynasty
  Joseph Sassoon (Director of the Centre for Contemporary Arab Studies and Professor of History and Political Economy at Georgetown University)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Indian farmers' struggle and climate change: Defending small farming against agro-business takeover
  This event has been cancelled - we hope to reschedule for Trinity Term.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Professor Pritam Singh (Oxford Brookes University)
  Climate Change and the Challenges of Development

Monday 28 February 2022

• 12:30 - Christianising Elites and the Religious Topography of Late Roman and Visigothic Iberia
  Carolyn Tyler La Rocco (St Andrews)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 12:30 - The Micro-institutional Foundations of Capitalism: Sectoral Pathways to Globalization in China, India, and Russia
  Professor Roselyn Hseuh (Temple University)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 16:00 - B.R. Ambedkar's Sociophilia and Other Anti-Caste Sciences
  Professor J. Daniel Elam (University of Hong Kong)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 16:00 - Multidimensional Poverty in Brazil in the Early 21st Century. Evidence from the Demographic Census
  Adriana Stankiewicz Serra (University of Campinas)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 17:30 - Devon Matthews of LGBT+ refugee rights charity Rainbow Railroad, in conversation
  Devon Matthews (Rainbow Railroad)
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures

Tuesday 1 March 2022

• 14:00 - Joint African Studies/South Asian Centre Seminar: Covid-19
  Shaeera Kalla (C19 Peoples’ Coalition, South Africa), Tarangini Sriraman (Goldsmiths), Jeevan Baniya (Social Science Baha, Nepal)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 2 March 2022

• 15:00 - Reconciliation as Both Healing and Prevention: Mending Ruptures within the Self and between Generations
  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
• 17:00 - Smallpox, Polio, and Muslim "Resistance": reconsidering trust in global health
  Professor Sanjoy Bhattacharya (York)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 3 March 2022

• 10:00 - Global and Imperial History graduate student research presentations
  Various Speakers
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The UK government approach to crisis management
  This event is open to members of the University only. Numbers are limited and admission will be on a first come, first served basis.
  David Munroe (UK Cabinet Office)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series

Friday 4 March 2022

• 10:00 - Global and Imperial History graduate student research presentations
  Various Speakers
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 13:00 - Do you feel accepted? Perceived acceptance and its spatially varying determinants of migrant workers among Chinese cities
  Presentation in Mandarin; English PPT; bilingual Q&As
  Dr Hengyu Gu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
  Mandarin Forum
• 17:00 - HYBRID EVENT - Panel Discussion – The Future of Syria
  Ms Waad Alkhatib (Film Maker, For Sama)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 7 March 2022

• 12:30 - Inventing the Tyrant and the Dissident: Procopius and the Limits on Acceptable Speech
  Matthew Hassall (Cambridge)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 13:00 - Foreigners and Outsiders: Chinese Views of Jesuit Missionaries in the Late Ming Period
  Dr Ana Carolina Hosne (National Council for Scientific Research (CONICET), Argentina)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 14:00 - Youth work, prosocial behaviour, and micro-foundation of working-class solidarity in China
  Ngai Pun (Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University)
  Oxford Development Studies Annual Lectures
• 16:00 - Reflections on Gandhi’s Anti-Modernism
  Professor Akeel Bilgrami (Columbia University)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 16:00 - Measuring Vulnerability to Multidimensional Poverty with Bayesian Network Classifiers
  Professor Mauricio Gallardo (Universidad Católica del Norte)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 16:15 - Humanitarian Diplomacy: What it is and how it works
  Dr Hugo Slim (Oxford)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series

Tuesday 8 March 2022

• 14:00 - Joint African Studies/South Asian Centre Seminar: Corruption
  Rui Verde and Rafael Marques (Oxford and Maka Angola), Malini Ranganathan (American University)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - ‘Forms of Enclosure: Tsitsi Dangarembga and Kojo Laing'.
  Penny Cartwright (Queen's College)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar
• 17:00 - Poverty and Squalor in Modern Chinese Realism
  Dr Keru Cai (University of Oxford)
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China

Wednesday 9 March 2022

• 15:00 - Oxford Political Thought Seminar - Law
  Mohammad Fadel (University of Toronto)
  Contemporary Islamic Studies Programme
• 15:00 - Land Tenure Registration in Situations of Protracted Displacement: Reconciling or Dividing?
  Prof Mathijs van Leeuwen (Radboud University)
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures
• 17:00 - Carceral Geographies, Racial Violence: The contested Mediterranean borderzone
  Dr Maurice Stierl (University of Sheffield)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Daulat, Saltanat and the Sultan in the Mughal and Ottoman Worlds
  Dr Gagan Sood (Department of International History, LSE)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Friday 11 March 2022

• 16:00 - Global and Imperial History graduate student research presentations
  Various Speakers
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - HYBRID EVENT - Yemen’s Enduring Crisis
  TBA
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
• 17:00 - How to Overcome Global Crises: Climate Change and Pandemics
  Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (Nelson Mandela Fellow)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Monday 14 March 2022

• 12:30 - Churches at a Crossroads: Archaeological and Landscape Assessment of a Rural Sacred Landmark in Central Sicily
  Margherita Riso (Leicester)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar

Monday 21 March 2022

• 12:30 - Clerics and Building in Early Byzantine Inscriptions
  Canan Arıkan (Vienna)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar

Thursday 24 March 2022

• 12:00 - Open Access Oxford: What's happening?
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Beth Paton (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Monday 28 March 2022

• 12:30 - The Epigraphy of the Dome of the Rock in Relation to the Sacred Landscape of Jerusalem
  Blake Lorenz (KU Leuven)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 13:00 - Growing Young Lives: Past, Present and Future
  Catherine Porter (University of Oxford)

Thursday 31 March 2022

• 09:00 - Visions of Life Symposium: Utopian Dreams, Revolutionary Filmmaking and the Politics of the Film Archive in Africa
  Various Speakers

Monday 11 April 2022

• 15:00 - Open Access Oxford: What's happening?
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), David Phillips (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Monday 25 April 2022

• 12:30 - Byzantium and the Black Sea, c.1000-1204
  Jack Sheard (Royal Holloway)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 16:00 - Justice Beyond Rights
  Dr Humeira Iqtidar (King's College London)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Tuesday 26 April 2022

• 14:00 - Fashioning Subjects: From Farmer, to Soldier, to Patriot
  Thiruni Kelegama (Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 15:00 - Rewriting the Bazaar: Vernacular Histories of Capitalism in the Indian Ocean World
  Fahad Ahmad Bishara (University of Virginia)
  Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire

Wednesday 27 April 2022

• 15:00 - Oxford Political Thought Seminar Series - Seminar 1 - EMPIRE
  Janet O’Brien, The Courtauld, Azfar Moin, University of Texas-Austin
• 16:00 - Governing Planetary Health in an Unequal World
  Anna-Katharina Hornidge (Director of the German Development Institute and member of the German Government of Global Change (WBGU)), Nicole de Paula (Senior SDGs Expert at FAO of the UN & Founder of the Women Leaders for Planetary Health)
  Climate Change and the Challenges of Development
• 17:00 - Islam and the Strategic Global Rivalry over Energy: Illustrations from Afghanistan
  Dr Mohammad Talib (OCIS)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Friday 29 April 2022

• 13:00 - 'Today Hong Kong, Tomorrow Taiwan': History, Geopolitics and Transboundary Civil Society between China’s Two Peripheral Societies
  Mandarin presentation; English PPT; bilingual Q&As
  Professor Ming-sho Ho (National Taiwan University)
  Mandarin Forum
• 17:00 - BOOK LAUNCH 'Algiers’ lynching, 1956. A social history of colonial racism'
  Andrea Brazzoduro (MFO/Turin), James McDougall (Trinity)

Monday 2 May 2022

• 12:30 - Literary Imitation (mimesis) in Twelfth-Century Byzantium: The Case of Theodore Prodromos
  Yan Zaripov (Oxford)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 16:00 - Seeing the People in Mughal India
  Professor Abhishek Kaicker (UC Berkeley)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Tuesday 3 May 2022

• 14:00 - ‘British Bolé Baap Re Baap’ - World War II and the Prospect of ‘Quit India’ in Bengal: ‘War’ Rumours and ‘Revolutionary’ Parties
  Anwesha Roy (Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The Bride: An Illustrated History of Palestine, 1850-1948
  Roger Hardy (Former Middle East analyst with the BBC World Service)
• 17:00 - The Vibrant Material and Digital Geographies of Contentious Politics in China
  Dr Carwyn Morris (University of Manchester)
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China
• 17:15 - ‘Nguyen, Hagedorn, Coppola, Conrad: Global Residues of the Anglo-American Genre System’
  Professor Jed Esty (University of Pennsylvania)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Wednesday 4 May 2022

• 15:00 - The struggle for self-determination and grassroots liberation from neocolonial NGO-ism: perspectives from Kenya
  Grassroots Liberation group (Kenya), Dr Thomas Jeffrey Miley (University of Cambridge)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 5 May 2022

• 17:00 - The Remarkable Science of Nanopores: From Gene Sequencing to Organ Repair
  Professor Hagan Bayley (Founder, Oxford Nanopore)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies - Events
• 17:00 - Book Launch: The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators between Qing China and the British Empire
  Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford)
  China Studies Seminar series

Monday 9 May 2022

• 12:30 - Justin II and the Miaphysites
  Silvio Roggo (Cambridge)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 16:00 - Queer Azaadi and the origins of Indian homonationalism in Kashmir
  Anish Gawande (University of Oxford)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 17:00 - Book presentation - The Ethics of Exile: A Political Theory of Diaspora
  Dr Ashwini Vasanthakumar (Queen’s Law School), Professor Matthew J Gibney (Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford), Professor Cathryn Costello (Hertie School and University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures

Tuesday 10 May 2022

• 14:00 - ‘Technology at the Wheel’: Computers, Data and Tech-Utopianisms in the Political Imagination of 1980s India
  Amogh Dhar Sharma (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 15:00 - Open Access: Your Thesis, Copyright & ORA
  David Watson (Bodleian Libraries), Thomas Mitchell (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - The Kangaroo Man in the Paddock: Reproductive Technologies and Body Politics in Lily Hsueh’s Writings of Family History
  Dr Po-hsi Chen (University of Cambridge)
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China

Wednesday 11 May 2022

• 14:00 - HYBRID EVENT - The Right to Move: Gender and Space in Iranian Cinema
  Various Speakers
• 17:00 - Islam and Child Rights: The Role of Religion in the Development of the Law
  Justice Imman Ali (Supreme Court of Bangladesh, Appellate Division)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - A materialist account of patriarchy under the post-colonial state
  Mohammed Elnaiem (University of Cambridge)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 12 May 2022

• 17:15 - "Ishq Vishq, Pyar Vyar: Reading with a loving eye in the new India."
  Ulka Anjaria (Brandeis)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Friday 13 May 2022

• 13:00 - Organised Crime in Rural China: Gang Evolution, Crime–State Relations and State Infrastructural Power
  Mandarin presentation; bilingual Q&As
  Professor Peng Wang (University of Hong Kong)
  Mandarin Forum

Monday 16 May 2022

• 12:30 - Creating the Female Martyr in Late Antiquity
  Alice van den Bosch (Exeter)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 16:00 - Freedom Between Order and Chaos: Reading a Political Satire From India
  Professor Jyotirmaya Sharma (University of Hyderabad)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 17:00 - George Rousseau Lecture: Edward Gibbon and Lausanne
  Professor Béla Kapossy (University of Lausanne & EPFL)
  George Rousseau Lectures
• 17:00 - How will ending poverty impact climate change? A well-being centred approach to energy transitions
  Narasimha D Rao will speak in person at the Oxford Martin School. To attend online, please sign up via the link below.
  Narasimha D Rao (Yale University)
  Climate Change and the Challenges of Development

Tuesday 17 May 2022

• 14:00 - The Cosmopolitan Standard of Civilization: A Critical Sociology of Elite Belonging among Indian Diplomats
  Dr Kira Huju (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 18 May 2022

• 17:00 - Truth, Knowledge, and Power in Islam Before the Nineteenth Century: A Heuristic Perspective on the Separation of Powers and the Rule of Law
  Professor Wael Hallaq (Columbia University)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 19 May 2022

• 11:00 - Open Access Oxford: What's happening?
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Polly Bannister (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Friday 20 May 2022

• 17:00 - Fascism is not dead: violence of Hindu nationalism in India and the possibilities of resistance
  Professor Dibyesh Anand (University of Westminster)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Monday 23 May 2022

• 12:30 - Blueprints of Power: Roman Statecraft and Politics in Konstantinos VII’s "Book of Ceremonies"
  Tiffany VanWinkoop (Wisconsin-Madison)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 16:00 - Ma'na and War
  Dr James Caron (SOAS University of London)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Tuesday 24 May 2022

• 11:00 - Open Access: British Heart Foundation (BHF) Open Access policy briefing
  Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 15:30 - Political Entrepreneurship in the Digital World: What it is and how it works
  Kristina Lunz (Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series
• 17:00 - The struggle for peace by LGBTI+ and women’s organisations in Turkey
  Nisan Alıcı (Ulster University), Güneş Daşlı (Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The Ambiguities of Kurdish “Nationalism”
  Dr. Djene Rhys Bajalan

Wednesday 25 May 2022

• 10:00 - Asylum after the Act | A panel discussion
  Zoe Bantleman (Immigration Law Practitioners' Association), Behrouz Boochani (UNSW), Lawrence Bottinick (UNHCR London), Baroness Shami Chakrabarti (House of Lords)
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures
• 12:00 - Chinese Legal Thought on the Global Stage
  Professor Samuli Seppänen (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 15:00 - Oxford Political Thought Seminar Series - Seminar 2 - ARAB SPRING
  Maria Malmström, Lund University, Usaama al-Azami, University of Oxford
• 16:00 - Multilingual Perspectives on the Colonial Novel
  Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford), Marijke Denger (Bern), Richard Drayton (KCL), Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford), Rick Honings (Leiden), Coen van ’t Veer (Leiden)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar
• 17:00 - Caliph, Sultan and Scholar: The Political Career of Fakhr al-Din al-Razi (d. 1210)
  Dr Ayman Shihadeh (SOAS)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Bordering and Ordering among Refugees from Burma/Myanmar | Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture 2022
  Professor Kirsten McConnachie (University of East Anglia)
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures

Friday 27 May 2022

• 13:00 - The Online 'Informing' System: Popularized Internet Regulation in Mainland China
  Mandarin presentation; bilingual Q&As
  Professor Chelsea C. Chou (National Taiwan University)
  Mandarin Forum

Monday 30 May 2022

• 12:30 - Arabo-Greek Astrological Manuscripts: The Vind. Phil. Gr. 115 and Its Anonymous Chapters
  Luca Farina (Tübingen)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 16:00 - POSTPONED - The Poetics of Hindutva
  Professor Janaki Bakhle (UC Berkeley)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Tuesday 31 May 2022

• 17:00 - Epidemics, Continuity and Change
  Professor Erica Charters (University of Oxford), Professor Mark Harrison (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies - Events

Wednesday 1 June 2022

• 16:00 - The UN at a Crossroads: The Ukrainian War and the Challenge of Multilateral Diplomacy
  Ambassador Rytis Paulauskas (Permanent Representative of the Republic of Lithuania to the United Nations), Richard Gowan (UN director, International Crisis Group)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series
• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Mr Simon Collis (Former British Ambassador to Saudi Arabia (2015-20))
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 2 June 2022

• 17:00 - Fathoming the Changes between Heaven and Earth. Reconsidering the Status of the Book of Changes in Wang Bi’s Philosophy
  Hybrid event: in-person and online (via Zoom). Registration required for online attendance.
  Dr Raphaël Van Daele (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:15 - POSTPONED: “Listening Through Walls: Towards an Aural Feminist Poetics of Asylum”
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Anna Ball (NTU)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Friday 3 June 2022

• 17:00 - The Potential Impact of European Aids on National Curriculum in Emerging Entities Under and Post-Conflicts: Palestine As a Case
  Haya Fayyad Abu Hussein (Birzeit University/ Palestine)

Monday 6 June 2022

• 12:30 - Sanctity in Late Antiquity (exact title TBC)
  Natacha Puglisi (KCL)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 13:00 - Beyond Heteronormativity? Intimacy and Intersectionality of Lesbians and Gay Men in Post-Reform China
  Hybrid event: In-person and online (via Zoom). Registration required to attend online.
  Professor Susanne Choi (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 16:00 - Climate and Environmental Justice Matters: Towards connected knowledge and policy in a development pluriverse
  This is a hybrid event; it will take place in person and online via Zoom. To attend via Zoom, please register at the url below.
  Professor Melissa Leach (Director, Institute of Development Studies)
  Climate Change and the Challenges of Development
• 16:00 - Pan-Nationalist Notions of Rights, Indian Khilafat Movement and the Treaty of Lausanne (1923)
  Professor Cemil Aydin (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Tuesday 7 June 2022

• 17:00 - Applications of Machine Learning in Healthcare
  Professor Lionel Tarassenko (Reuben College, Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies - Events

Wednesday 8 June 2022

• 17:00 - The Quest for Reforms of Islamic Systems of Education in Nigeria
  Professor Kabiru Chafe (Ahmadu Bello University)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Writing and researching Palestine: reflections on positionality and decoloniality
  Dr Yara Hawari (Al-Shabaka)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Friday 10 June 2022

• 13:00 - Tensions and Paradoxes: An Investigation of Internationalisation of Chinese Higher Education
  Mandarin presentation; bilingual Q&As
  Dr Xin Xu (University of Oxford)
  Mandarin Forum
• 17:00 - 'The Unremembered Nation-Bhutan' by Karma Ura
  Dasho Karma Ura (President of the Center for Bhutan Studies & Gross National Happiness), Professor Sabina Alkire (University of Oxford), Dinah Rose (University of Oxford), Sir Simon Bowes Lyon KCVO (President of The Bhutan Society of the United Kingdom)

Monday 13 June 2022

• 12:30 - Byzantine-Armenian Doctrinal Discourse in the Period of the Early Islamic Conquests, c. 630-720 (exact title TBC)
  Stephanie Forrest (Cambridge)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 16:00 - ‘Jim-Crowed the World Over’: Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay and the Idea of the Global South
  Professor Nico Slate (Carnegie Mellon University)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 17:00 - Liberal violence
  Dr Ayça Çubukçu (London School of Economics and Political Science)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Wednesday 15 June 2022

• 15:00 - Oxford Political Thought Seminar Series - Seminar 3 - RELIGION
  Rushain Abbasi, Stanford University, Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, Northwestern University
• 17:00 - The Reconstruction of the Awliya Domes in Hadramut, Yemen (2019-2021)
  Professor Salma Damluji (American University of Beirut)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 16 June 2022

• 17:00 - *Annual George Antonius Memorial Lecture* - The Enduring Legacy of Oslo
  Diana Buttu (IMEU Communications Director, DAWN Fellow)
• 17:15 - "I'm-possible": The Singlish Poetics of parsetreeforestfire by Hamid Roslan” & “Continuity over Rupture: Rewriting Caribbean Literary History"
  Ann Ang (Wadham College), Gavin Herbertson (St Catz)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Tuesday 21 June 2022

• 12:30 - Poverty and the SDGs: Engaging the UK Parliament
  For online-only participation, please use this link to get your unique access code: https://bit.ly/zoom-OPHIOPEN
  Kelly-Ann Fonderson (Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative)
  Oxford Policy Engagement Network (OPEN) Showcase 2022

Wednesday 22 June 2022

• 17:00 - CANCELLED - Oxford Political Thought Seminar Series - Seminar 4 - MARXISM
  Fadi Bardawil, Duke University, Nadia Bou Ali, American University of Beirut

Friday 24 June 2022

• 10:00 - Development policy and wellbeing: Bhutan's Gross National Happiness Index
  Professor Sabina Alkire (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative), Dasho Karma Ura (Centre for Bhutan Studies and GNH)
  Oxford Policy Engagement Network (OPEN) Showcase 2022

Thursday 7 July 2022

• 14:30 - Open Access: National Institute for Health and Care Research open access policy briefing
  Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Monday 3 October 2022

• 16:00 - Necessary Fictions: The State, Stock Markets and Growth in East Asia
  Professor John Yasuda (Johns Hopkins University)
  China Studies Seminar series

Monday 10 October 2022

• 16:00 - An environmentally-augmented Multidimensional Poverty Index: The Case of Madagascar
  Light refreshments from Currydor, a local Indian restaurant in Oxford, will be served to in-person attendees.
  Various Speakers
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 16:30 - The Burning Field: Film screening and Q&A
  Anita Afonu (Documentary filmmaker)
• 17:00 - Demystifying China's Innovation and Entrepreneurial System
  Professor David Gann (University of Oxford)
  China Centre talks

Tuesday 11 October 2022

• 14:00 - A ‘Harry Potter’ in 1354 and the emergence of a vernacular literary tradition in the Hindi Belt
  Imre Bangha (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Asia’s Self-Discovery: Intercultural Understanding and the Infrastructure of Empire
  Nile Green (University of California, Berkeley)
  Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire
• 17:00 - Book launch: “The Condor Trials: Transnational Repression and Human Rights in South America” by Francesca Lessa
  This is a hybrid event. To attend online please register via the link below. Registration is not required for in person attendance.
  Professor Jocelyn Alexander (University of Oxford), Ezequiel Gonzalez Ocantos (Nuffield College), Dr Francesca Lessa (Oxford Department of International Development and Oxford School of Global and Area Studies, University of Oxford), Dr Par Engstrom (Associate Professor of Human Rights, Institute of the Americas, University College London)
• 17:00 - How Artifical Intelligence is Changing our Newsrooms
  Ms Subhransu Priyadarshini (Chief Editor, Nature India)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)
• 17:00 - Iran Protests: A Panel Discussion
  Walking vigil 3pm from Bonn Square to St Antony’s College directly preceding this event.
  Edmund Herzig (Soudavar Professor of Persian Studies), Maryam Alemzadeh (Associate Professor in History and Politics of Iran), Zuzanna Olszewska (Associate Professor in the Social Anthropology of the Middle East)

Wednesday 12 October 2022

• 17:00 - Continuity and Change in US Strategy toward the Middle East and the Islamic World
  Professor Vali Nasr (Johns Hopkins University)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 13 October 2022

• 17:00 - The Chinese Latrine: a Pigstory
  Professor Roel Sterckx (University of Cambridge)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 14 October 2022

• 13:00 - Women and Heroin Addiction in China’s Reform Era (ONLINE ONLY)
  Mandarin presentation; English PPT; bilingual Q&As
  Professor Huan Gao (California State University, Stanislaus)
  Mandarin Forum
• 16:00 - Oxford Centre for Global History Inaugural Anthony Gwilliam Annual Lecture: Why Europe? Y. Pestis. The Black Death and the rise of Europe
  Professor James Belich (Beit Professor of Imperial and Commonwealth History, University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Global History events
• 16:00 - Oxford Centre for Global History Inaugural Annual Lecture: Why Europe? Y. Pestis. The Black Death and the Rise of Europe
  Please note this seminar is at the H B Allen Centre, Keble College, 25 Banbury Road, but all other seminars will be in the Colin Matthew Room, History Faculty, George Street.
  James Belich (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Jihad, Radicalism, and the New Atheism
  Professor Mohammad Khalil (Michigan State University, USA)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022

Monday 17 October 2022

• 16:00 - The 2022 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index
  Light refreshments from Currydor, a local Indian restaurant in Oxford, will be served to in-person attendees.
  Various Speakers
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty

Tuesday 18 October 2022

• 11:30 - Oxford SDG Impact Lab Lunch - Fellowship Opportunities 2023
  Merolyn Whitaker (SDG Impact Lab), Oliver Cook (SDG Impact Lab)
• 13:00 - Social cohesion policies in displacement-affected contexts: promoting solidarity or preserving the protection space?
  Cory Rodgers (Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford), Watfa Najdi (Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs, Beirut)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Rising India's Hidden Transcripts: The Long Shadow of 'Nuclear Apartheid' in the Global Nuclear Order
  Kate Sullivan de Estrada (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Muslim Values and End of Life Care Decision Making
  Dr Mehrunisha Suleman (The Ethox Centre and Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)
• 17:00 - Book Launch: The Making of the Modern Middle East
  Jeremy Bowen (BBC)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022

Wednesday 19 October 2022

• 16:00 - Oxford Political Though Seminar: Dissent
  This series is online only, registration essential to receive your personal ZOOM link https://tinyurl.com/ywpewudw
  Professor Valerie Hoffman (University of Illinois)
  Political Thought
• 17:00 - Ben Ali’s Tunisia: Power and Contention in an Authoritarian Regime
  Dr Anne Wolf (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 20 October 2022

• 13:00 - Taiwan’s Postwar Student Movement and the Making of Democracy
  Online event, but can be watched online at the China Centre, in the Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre
  Professor Ming-sho Ho (National Taiwan University)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:00 - Missing, Remembering, Revival
  Krikor Momdjian (Artist and poet)
  Silence and Visuality Seminar Series in Armenian Art and History
• 17:15 - The Curation of European Imperial Legacies
  Rosemarie Buikema (Utrecht)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Friday 21 October 2022

• 16:00 - Men of their time? The afterlife of the Indian Raj in Oxford
  Yasmin Khan (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 16:00 - Coloniality, Global Health and Reparations
  Eugene Richardson (Harvard Medical School)
• 17:00 - Resurrecting the Caliphate: The Creed of Abraham and ISIS’s Hermeneutics of Power
  Professor Asma Afsaruddin (Indiana University, Bloomington, USA)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022

Monday 24 October 2022

• 12:30 - The reliquary-cross of Saint Constantine and the military use of holy relics
  Joaquin Serrano (University of Edinburgh)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 16:00 - The many forms of poverty: Analyses of deprivation interlinkages in the developing world
  Light refreshments will be served to in-person attendees.
  Dr Ricardo Nogales (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative), Dr Nicolai Suppa (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty

Tuesday 25 October 2022

• 13:00 - Reconsidering the Principles of Zheng Xuan’s 鄭玄 Canonical Scholarship
  The talk will be in Chinese
  Hashimoto Hidemi 橋本秀美 (Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan)
  China Centre talks
• 14:00 - A supercyclone, landscapes of ‘emptiness’ and shrimp aquaculture: The lesser-known trajectories of disaster recovery in coastal Odisha, India
  Professor Vasudha Chhotray (University of East Anglia)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 14:30 - Research Tools
  Various Speakers
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 15:00 - Made In Hong Kong: Transpacific Networks and a New History of Globalization
  Peter E Hamilton (Lingnan University)
  Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire
• 17:00 - All Necessary Measures? The United Nations and International Intervention in Libya
  No registration needed; just turn up; all welcome
  Ian (Martin)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022

Wednesday 26 October 2022

• 14:30 - Informal Lives: Welfare, Underemployment and Gender in Mid-Twentieth Century Mexico
  This is a hybrid event. To attend online, please register via the link below.
  Sara Hidalgo (CIDE, Mexico City)
  Social Life of Work Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Righteous Demagogues: The Moral Economy of Populism
  Dr Adnan Naseemullah (Kings College London)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Online Book Launch: In the Shade of the Sunna: Salafi Piety in the 20th-Century Middle East
  This event is online
  Dr Aaron Rock-Singer (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022
• 17:30 - Collaborating with organisations to advance the UN Sustainable Development Goals
  Prof Alexander Betts (University of Oxford), Clara van der Pol (UNWTO), Matt Callaghan (Director of Customers & Operations, easyJet holidays), Fiona Jeffrey OBE (Just a Drop), Anjali Sarker (University of Oxford)

Thursday 27 October 2022

• 13:00 - MPPN Dialogues: Communication and Engagement Strategies for the MPI
  Various Speakers
• 17:00 - Fighting Imperialism – Forging Solidarity: Africa in PRC Visual Propaganda, 1950s to 1980s
  Dr Thoralf Klein (Loughborough University)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 28 October 2022

• 13:00 - Decoding the Illegal Online Market: The Governance Mechanisms of Internet Gambling (ONLINE ONLY)
  Mandarin presentation; English PPT; bilingual Q&As
  Dr Lin Wanlin (The University of Hong Kong)
  Mandarin Forum
• 16:00 - “Disorders of Bestial Origin”: Race and Venereal Disease in the Atlantic World
  Katherine Paugh (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The Evolution of Contemporary China Studies: Coming Full Circle?
  This is an in-person and online event. To attend online (via Zoom), registration is required
  Professor David Shambaugh (George Washington University)
  China Centre talks
• 17:00 - The struggle for Salafism in Egypt’s post-revolutionary period
  Stéphane Lacroix (Sciences Po, Paris, France)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022

Monday 31 October 2022

• 12:30 - Saint Thekla’s popularity in Rough Cilicia
  Nuna Terri (Université libre de Bruxelles)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 16:00 - Unidimensional Underpinnings of Multidimensional Counting Measures
  Light refreshments from Currydor, a local Indian restaurant in Oxford, will be served to in-person attendees.
  Professor James Foster (Georges Washington University)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 16:00 - ‘Power to the People?’: Citizens and the Everyday State in Early Postcolonial South Asia
  Professor Sarah Ansari (Royal Holloway, University of London)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Tuesday 1 November 2022

• 14:00 - Urdu as a language for Science? Textbook experiments in Roorkee College of Engineering in the nineteenth century
  Sajid Nizami (Government M.A.O. College, Lahore; Academic Visitor, OS)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 14:30 - Diaspora & Music
  John Pfumojena (University of Oxford), Pete Yelding (University of Bath Spa, University of Exeter)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 17:00 - Book Launch: Yemen, poverty and conflict
  Helen Lackner (SOAS, University of London)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022
• 17:00 - Economic Diversification in Nigeria: The Politics of Building a Post-Oil Economy
  This is a hybrid event. Please register via the link below to attend in person or online.
  Zainab Usman (Director, Africa Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)

Wednesday 2 November 2022

• 14:30 - ‘This is like addiction!’: aspirations, disaffections and hope amongst app- based food delivery workers and drivers in Bengaluru, India
  This is a hybrid event. To attend online, please register via the link below.
  Kaveri Medappa Kaliyanda (Sussex and Oxford)
  Social Life of Work Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Turkey’s Economic Development and Political Economy since 1980
  Professor Şevket Pamuk (Bogazici University)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 3 November 2022

• 16:00 - Necessary Fictions: The State, Stock Markets and Growth in East Asia
  Professor John Yasuda (Johns Hopkins University)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:15 - ‘Decolonising Debates: the case of Nelson Mandela (VSI)’, in discussion with Ankhi Mukherjee
  Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar
• 17:30 - A discussion with Dr. Markus Grüneisl,  Chief Executive BMW Group UK, on the new and exciting partnership with the Oxford SDG Impact Lab
  Prof Alexander Betts (University of Oxford), Dr. Markus Grüneisl (BMW Group UK)

Friday 4 November 2022

• 16:00 - Ideology and Economic Change: the Contrasting Paths to the Modern Economy in late 19th century China and Japan
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Debin Ma (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The International Thought of Turkish Islamists: History, Civilization and Nation
  Associate Professor Katerina Dalacoura (London School of Economics and Political Science, UK)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022

Saturday 5 November 2022

• 09:00 - The Sudanese Programme 1-Day Conference: Ecological Impacts of Proposed Jonglei Canal, National Identity Crisis, Communal Conflicts and the Peace in South Sudan
  This is a hybrid event, please join us in person if you can. Otherwise you can link in through ZOOM. To receive your personal ZOOM link please visit our website and register through there, https://www.sudaneseprogramme.org
  David S. Bassiouni (The Bassiouni Group), Abraham A. Awolich (People’s Coalition for Civil Actions), Laura Nunu Numirano (Medical Director and Researcher in Health Education), Rachel Ayrton (University of Birmingham), Tag Elkhazin (Carleton University), Yien Matthew Chol (Linguist, Literati and Human Rights Activist), Rita M. Lopidia (Eve Organization for Women Development, South Sudan and Uganda)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series

Monday 7 November 2022

• 12:30 - Representations of Jews in Middle-Byzantine hagiographical apocalypses
  Niels De Ridder (KU Leuven / Universität zu Köln)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 16:00 - Measuring Multidimensional Poverty: a Global Assessment of Data Availability and Data Gaps
  Light refreshments from Currydor, a local Indian restaurant in Oxford, will be served to in-person attendees.
  Miss Fanni Kovesdi (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 16:00 - Who are the Muslims? Savarkar on Indian Muslim Origin
  Professor Luna Sabastian (Northeastern University - London)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Tuesday 8 November 2022

• 13:00 - The secret life of energy in refugee camps: uncovering spaces of power and principles of governance within humanitarian energy
  Sarah Rosenberg-Jansen (University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Coercion and Compromise: Militarism and Informality in Everyday Policing
  Dr Zoha Waseem (University of Warwick)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 15:00 - Bound by Property in Death
  Nurfadzilah Yahaya (Yale University)
  Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire
• 17:00 - Food System Transformation, Food Futures and Climate Change
  Dr Monika Zurek (University of Oxford)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)
• 17:00 - Book Launch: Inside Qatar: hidden stories from the one of the richest nations on earth
  Dr John McManus (British Institute at Ankara)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022
• 17:00 - Diaspora & Indigeneity
  Tyler Tully (University of Oxford), Amber Starks
  Transnational & Global History Seminar

Wednesday 9 November 2022

• 14:30 - “Aur bhi taiyareeyan karni padti hai” (Even more preparation is needed): The everyday life of preparation for work in India’s government services
  This is a hybrid event. To attend online, please register via the link below.
  Abhishek Datta (University of Oxford)
  Social Life of Work Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Actualizing Ideal Islam: Principles of Islamic Revival at the Dawn of Modernity
  Dr Fitzroy Morrisey (All Souls, Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 10 November 2022

• 14:30 - Open Scholarship: Fundamentals of Open Access
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - What Justice for Famine Crimes? | Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture 2022
  Alex de Waal (World Peace Foundation)
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures
• 17:00 - Modernity on the Periphery: Urbanisation and Informality after the Chongqing Model
  Dr Asa Roast (University of Leeds)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:00 - Disowning the Past: Silences and Absences of the Art of Panos Terlemezian (1865-1941)
  Dr Gizem Tongo (Middle East Technical University)
  Silence and Visuality Seminar Series in Armenian Art and History

Friday 11 November 2022

• 13:00 - Life in Lhasa during the Republic Era: Dai Xinsan’s Diary (ONLINE ONLY)
  Mandarin presentation; English PPT; bilingual Q&As
  Professor Chuan Wang (Sichuan Normal University)
  Mandarin Forum
• 16:00 - Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic
  Jennifer Morgan (NYU)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The Reception of Sayyid Qutb’s Controversial Ideas Among Jordanian Muslim Brothers
  Professor Joas Wagemakers (Utrecht University & Netherlands Interuniversity School of Islamic Studies (NISIS))
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022
• 17:00 - Nature as an Asset or Nature as a Subject of Rights: Which way for addressing the global biodiversity crisis?
  This is a hybrid event. To attend online, please register via the link below.
  Roldan Muradian (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil)
  Climate Change and the Challenges of Development
• 17:00 - Green Ink: Plant-human Relations in Contemporary Sinophone Fiction
  Dr Astrid Møller-Olsen (Lund University)
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China

Monday 14 November 2022

• 12:30 - The Byzantine Heritage of the Liber ad honorem Augusti
  Elvira Miceli (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 16:00 - Human Development Report 2022 - Uncertain Times, Unsettled Lives. Shaping Our Future in a Transforming World
  Yu-Chieh Hsu (Human Development Report Office (HDRO)), Tasneem Mirza (United Nations Development Programme (UNDP))
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty

Tuesday 15 November 2022

• 13:00 - Right where we belong: how refugee teachers and students are changing the future of education
  Professor Sarah Dryden-Peterson (Harvard University)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Book Launch – Seeking Supremacy: The Pursuit of Judicial Power in Pakistan
  Registration required for zoom attendance
  Dr Yasser Kureshi (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Hong Kong – China’s canary down the mine?
  The Rt Hon, the Lord Patten of Barnes, CH PC Chancellor (University of Oxford)
  China Centre talks
• 17:00 - Book Launch: Deserts Are Not Empty
  3 of the 4 guest speakers joining online - 1 will join us in the lecture theatre. Audience will gather in the lecture theatre.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dala Musaed Alsayer (Kuwait University), Samia Henni (Cornell University), Menna Agha (Carelton University), Ariella Aisha Azoulay (Brown University)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022

Wednesday 16 November 2022

• 11:00 - Open Access: Your thesis, copyright and ORA
  David Watson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Thomas Mitchell (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship
• 14:30 - On Women's Backs - How Gender, Unpaid Care Work and Violence Interlink with Each Other in North India
  This is a hybrid event. To attend online please register below.
  Diya Dutta (Oxfam America Non-Resident Research Fellow 2022- 23/Independent researcher)
  Social Life of Work Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Why the Palestinians Still Don’t Have a State, and Why Their Need is More Urgent Than Ever
  Lord McDonald of Salford (Christ's College, Cambridge)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Obsessed with Reading: Bovarysm as a Phenomenon in the Reception of Translated Love Stories in Early Twentieth-Century China
  Date has been changed from 8 to 16 November. Location has changed to Ho Tim Seminar Room (first floor)
  Professor Jane Qian Liu (University of Warwick)
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China
• 17:00 - Why the Palestinians still don't have a State, and why their need is more urgent than ever
  Lord McDonald of Salford (Christ's College, Cambridge)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - The UK government approach to crisis management
  David Munroe (UK Cabinet Office)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series

Thursday 17 November 2022

• 17:15 - Un-Home-ly: Dwellings and the Construction of Refugee Identity
  Radhika Mohanran (Cardiff)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar
• 17:30 - How do movement parties learn lessons of defeat in Taiwan? The case of the Green Party Taiwan
  Dr Dafydd Fell (SOAS)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 18 November 2022

• 16:00 - Empire and the eighteenth-century origins of global temperature
  Harriet Mercer (Cambridge)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Thinking beyond the Islamic state versus modern liberalism: Islamism, non-Muslims, and communitarian citizenship
  Professor Rachel Scott (Virginia Tech, USA)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022

Monday 21 November 2022

• 12:30 - Barbarians of Eusebius
  Bahattin Bayram (İstanbul Medeniyet University)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 16:00 - Inclusive absolute well-being changes: An application with multidimensional cross-country analysis
  Light refreshments from Currydor, a local Indian restaurant in Oxford, will be served to in-person attendees.
  Dr Suman Seth (University of Leeds)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty

Tuesday 22 November 2022

• 14:00 - Global India and the politics of accountability in South-South Cooperation
  Laura Trajber Waisbich (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 14:30 - Diaspora & Radicals
  Tionne Parris (University of Hertfordshire)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 15:00 - Southern Arabian Revolutions: Challenging Colonial Capitalism in the Indian Ocean
  Abdel Razzak Takriti (University of Houston)
  Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire
• 17:00 - Book Launch: Pacted Democracy in the Middle East: Tunisia and Egypt in Comparative Perspective
  Hicham Alaoui (Hicham Alaoui Foundation)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022

Wednesday 23 November 2022

• 16:00 - POSTPONED - Uncivil Liberalism and the Globalisation of Dadabhai Naoroji’s Ideas of Sociality
  Dr Vikram Visana (University of Leicester)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 17:00 - Islamic Prohibition, National Regulations and International Norms
  Dr Elife Biçer-Deveci (Universität Bern)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - She’s an Icon, She’s Your Type: Linguistic Gender through Typographic and Visual Perspectives in Republican China
  Dr Coraline Jortay (University of Oxford)
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China

Thursday 24 November 2022

• 17:00 - Du Fu (712‒770) and his Troubled Search for Identity (POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE)
  This seminar has been postponed until further notice
  Professor David McMullen (University of Cambridge)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 25 November 2022

• 11:00 - Islamic Values and Disruptive Technologies
  Mr Ehsan Masood
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)
• 13:00 - The Resistance War in the Diary of Huang Tirun (1933‒1939) (ONLINE ONLY)
  Mandarin presentation; English PPT, bilingual Q&As
  Dr Haonan Xiang (Minzu University of China)
  Mandarin Forum
• 16:00 - "Fellow Travelling" in the age of decolonisation: Basil Davidson and the independence struggles in Lusophone Africa
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Pedro Aires Oliveira (Instituto de História Contemporânea, Lisbon)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Shi‘i visions of Muslim unity in contemporary Britain
  Cancelled
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Elvire Corboz (University of Edinburgh)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022

Monday 28 November 2022

• 12:30 - Emotions in Late Antiquity
  İrem Kısacık (İstanbul Medeniyet University)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 15:00 - Building a global fundraising career: a view from the MENA region and UNHCR
  This event is taking place online only so please register via the link below if you would like to attend. The event finishes at 4pm UK time.
  Houssam Chahine (UNHCR)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series
• 16:00 - Multidimensional Poverty Dynamics in Indonesia in the time of COVID-19: Lessons Learned and Policy Implications
  Light refreshments from Currydor, a local Indian restaurant in Oxford, will be served to in-person attendees.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Putu Natih (University of Oxford)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty

Tuesday 29 November 2022

• 13:00 - Voluntary statelessness
  Dr Rebecca Buxton (University of Cambridge)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Annual Lecture: Centres, Peripheries and New Histories of the Left in Iran
  Rasmus Christian Elling (University of Copenhagen)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022

Wednesday 30 November 2022

• 16:00 - Secularity
  This is an online ZOOM webinar, please register through the Middle East Centre events webpages to receive your personal ZOOM link
  Provost Professor Winnifred Fallers Sullivan (Indiana University Bloomington), Professor Armando Salvatore (McGill University)
  Political Thought
• 17:00 - Islamic Socialism: Radical Individuality and Equality?
  Dr Humeira Iqtidar (King's College London)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 1 December 2022

• 16:00 - Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia
  Professor Victor Seow (Harvard University)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:15 - Stephen Donovan (Uppsala), "Charterland: The Image of Rhodesia in British Culture, 1889-1930."
  Stephen Donovan (Uppsala)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Friday 2 December 2022

• 16:00 - The De-Imperialization of Colonialism: Revisiting Colonial Reforms and Anti-Colonial Movements in the 1920s
  Geert Castryck (Leipzig)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Contesting Muslim Legal Sovereignty in Colonial India
  With sincere apologies, this event is Cancelled
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Associate Professor Sohaira Siddiqui (Georgetown University in Qatar)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022

Monday 5 December 2022

• 12:30 - Translating Chivalry: The Aesthetics of Warfare in the Age of the Komnenoi
  Carlo Berardi (University of Michigan)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar

Friday 9 December 2022

• 17:00 - Rethinking traumatic silence through materiality in contemporary Armenian art
  Tsovinar Juiumchian (St Peter's College, Oxford)
  Silence and Visuality Seminar Series in Armenian Art and History

Monday 12 December 2022

• 12:30 - The Duchy of Naples under Byzantine rule
  Nila Namesechi (University of Birmingham)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 15:00 - Pirates of the Gulf of Kachchh: Capital, Power, and Violence
  This seminar has been postponed due to illness
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Professor Chhaya Goswami (University of Mumbai)
  Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire

Tuesday 13 December 2022

• 10:00 - Open Scholarship: Fundamentals of Open Access
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship

Tuesday 10 January 2023

• 14:30 - Open Scholarship: Fundamentals of Open Access
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship

Monday 16 January 2023

• 16:00 - The Logic of Cruelty and Violence in Ambedkar and Gandhi
  Professor Uday Singh Mehta (The City University of New York)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 16:00 - Valuing the Dirty work: A Study of Caste and Waste Work in Delhi
  This is a hybrid event. To attend online please register via the link below. Attendees at Oxford are strongly encouraged to attend in person.
  Aparna Agarwal (University of Oxford)
  Social Life of Work Seminar Series

Tuesday 17 January 2023

• 14:00 - The Ethical Impulse(s) behind Civil Rights Activism in India
  Ankita Pandey (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Empty Cradles: Israel’s Disappeared Children
  Dr James Eastwood (Queen Mary)
  Israel Studies Seminar Series Hilary Term 2023
• 15:00 - Historicizing Human Capital: Rickshaws, Narcotics, and a Global History of Labor
  Johan Mathew (Rutgers University)
  Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire
• 17:00 - The challenge of providing healthy, sustainable and equitable diets for all
  Professor Sir Charles Godfray (Director, Oxford Martin School)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)
• 17:00 - The Challenge of Providing Healthy, Sustainable and Equitable Diets for All
  Professor Sir Charles Godfray FRS (Oxford Martin School)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies - Events

Wednesday 18 January 2023

• 17:00 - Syria: The glory and the agony
  Ghayth Armanazi (Former Ambassador of the Arab League)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 19 January 2023

• 17:00 - Reader, Author, Icon, Superhero? Lu Xun and his Literature in Chinese Comics
  Dr Lena Henningsen (University of Freiburg)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:00 - Disowning the Past: Silences and Absences of the Art of Panos Terlemezian (1865-1941)
  Dr Gizem Tongo (Middle East Technical University)
  Silence and Visuality Seminar Series in Armenian Art and History

Friday 20 January 2023

• 16:00 - Abolitionism and the Global Suppression of "Piracy" in the Nineteenth Century
  Manuel Barcia (University of Leeds)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - IRAQ: The Political Economy of Institutional Decay and Government Dysfunction
  Dr Ali Allawi (Former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Republic of Iraq and author of The Occupation of Iraq (2007))
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 23 January 2023

• 12:30 - Manuscripts in Motion: The Parma Gospel Book (Ms. Pal. 5) and Its Journey to Italy
  Rebecca Amendola (La Sapienza Università di Roma)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar

Tuesday 24 January 2023

• 13:00 - Improving refugee resettlement
  Alex Teytelboym (University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Free Speech in Mughal India: Dissent and Resistance in Poetic Expression
  Saif Mahmood (Bonavero Institute, Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Invisible Settles: Resettling Palestinian Collaborators in Israel
  Prof. Menachem Hofnung (Hebrew University)
  Israel Studies Seminar Series Hilary Term 2023
• 17:00 - Mind Shift: How culture transformed the human brain
  Associate Professor John Parrington (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)
• 17:00 - Mind Shift: How Culture Transformed the Human Brain
  Dr John Parrington (Worcester College, Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies - Events

Wednesday 25 January 2023

• 17:00 - States of subsistence: the politics of bread in contemporary Jordan
  Jose Ciro Martinez (University of York)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Toward Social Diplomacy
  Professor Dr. Alisher Faizullaev (The University of World Economy and Diplomacy, Tashkent, Uzbekistan)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series

Thursday 26 January 2023

• 14:30 - CANCELLED - The Republic of South Sudan: Coming out of the Peace Process and the Path to Economic Development
  His Excellency Honourable Minister Puot Kang Chol, Minister of Petroleum for the Republic of South Sudan
• 17:00 - The Rise and the Fall of the EAST: Examination, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology in Chinese History and Today
  Prof. Yasheng Huang (MIT Sloan School of Management)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:15 - Postcolonial Writing and Theory Seminar: 'Restless Acoustics: Sonic Politics and Vocal Dissonance in the Soundscapes of Asylum-Seeker Detention'
  Anna Ball (NTU)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Friday 27 January 2023

• 16:00 - From Anti-Slavery to East India Reform: Trans-Atlantic Abolitionism, British Colonial Philanthropy, and Empire in India, 1838-43
  Andrea Major (University of Leeds)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Clerics in the time of Tishreen: The evolution of religion-civil society relations in post-2003 Iraq
  Marsin Alshamary, Research Fellow with the Middle East Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
• 17:00 - China and the UK in 2023, is there a Progressive Way Forward?
  Catherine West (MP)
  China Centre talks

Monday 30 January 2023

• 12:30 - Stephanites and Ichnelates: recovering the Eugenian recension?
  Emma Huig (Universiteit Gent)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 13:00 - Divergent Trajectories of China’s Email-Order Brides (ONLINE ONLY)
  Online only.
  Professor Monica Liu (University of St Thomas)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 16:00 - Christian Identities in Domestic Service: The Church, Non-Kin Sociality, Class and Gender.
  This is a hybrid event. To attend online please register via the link below. Attendees at Oxford are strongly encouraged to attend in person.
  Shalini Grover (LSE)
  Social Life of Work Seminar Series

Tuesday 31 January 2023

• 14:00 - Musical Citizens and Postcolonial Custodians: Inter-religious Dialogue in Post-Partition Punjab and Beyond
  Radha Kapuria (Durham University)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 14:30 - Open Scholarship: Your thesis, copyright and ORA
  David Watson (Bodleian Libraries), Thomas Mitchell (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship
• 15:00 - "The Fire Under the Sea": Arbitrage and Smuggling in the Western Indian Ocean
  Nidhi Mahajan (University of California, Santa Cruz)
  Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire
• 16:00 - Book Talk: 'Peacebuilding Legacy: Programming for Change and Young People's Attitudes to Peace'
  Sukanya Podder (Reader in Post-war Reconstruction and Peacebuilding, King's College London)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series
• 16:00 - Oxford Political Thought Seminar - Power/knowledge
  Sohaira Siddiqui (Georgetown), Ovamir Anjum (Toledo)
  Contemporary Islamic Studies Programme
• 17:00 - Book Launch Algeria: Politics and Society from the Dark Decade to the Hirak
  Dr Michael Willis (St Antony's College)
  Middle East Centre Tuesday Book Launch (Book Talk)

Wednesday 1 February 2023

• 12:00 - Lab Lunch: Sustainability Start-ups & Venture Capital with Stephen Murphy
  Stephen Murphy (CTC Advisory)
• 16:00 - Nigeria National Multidimensional Poverty Index
  Light refreshments from Currydor will be served
  Sola Afolayan (Federal Government of Nigeria), Prince Adeyemi Adeniran (Federal Government of Nigeria)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 17:00 - Inventing the Middle East: Britain and the Persian Gulf in the age of global imperialism
  Dr Guillemette Crouzet (Warwick)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 2 February 2023

• 12:00 - Engineering the Middle Classes – online special issue launch
  Please register in advance for this meeting. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
  Various Speakers
  ODID Special Lectures & Seminars
• 14:00 - A Defeated Samurai of Japan’s Civil War and the Transnational Re-imagination of Civilisation in the Late Nineteenth-Century United States
  Dr Chinami Oka (Tanaka Junior Research Fellow in Japanese Studies, Pembroke College, Oxford)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
• 17:00 - Self-Fashioning in Tang China: From the 'Casual Gaffer' to the 'Master of Extreme Torment'
  Dr Xiaojing Miao (University of Oxford)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 3 February 2023

• 16:00 - Enforcing Abolition and the Emergence of Humanitarian Intervention in the Nineteenth Century
  Fabian Klose (Cologne)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Transformative Education: Lessons from a new eco-campus
  This is a hybrid event. Please register via the link to attend online.
  Professor Cécile Renouard (ESSEC Business School, Ecole des Mines, and Centre Sèvres)
  Climate Change and the Challenges of Development
• 17:00 - Tracing Fragments: Art, Youth and Feminist Activism in Iraqi Kurdistan
  Houzan Mahmoud, Feminist Activist, Writer, and founder of Culture Project, Isabel Käser, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bern & Visiting Fellow at the Middle East Centre, LSE
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 6 February 2023

• 12:30 - Adults, Children and Other Animals: The Construction of the Zoroastrian Household
  Daniel Alford (Oxford)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar

Tuesday 7 February 2023

• 12:10 - The View From Beijing: Reflections on Recent Developments in the PRC
  Talk and discussion will start at 12.10
  Prof. Katherine Morton (Schwarzman College)
  China Centre talks
• 13:00 - Digital labour platforms and migration: making of commoditised workers
  Dr Jonas Valente (Oxford Internet Institute), Dr Funda Ustek-Spilda (Oxford Internet Institute)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 14:00 - The Indian Diaspora and Transnational Political Identities
  Edward Anderson (Northumbria University)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 15:00 - The Fusion of Zionism and Science: The First Two Decades—And the Present Day?
  Professor Amos Morris- Reich (Tel Aviv)
  Israel Studies Seminar Series Hilary Term 2023
• 17:00 - An Ethics Framework for Brain-Computer Interface Devices
  Stephen Rainey (Delft University of Technology)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)
• 17:00 - An Ethics Framework for Brain-Computer Interface Devices
  Dr Stephen Rainey (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies - Events

Wednesday 8 February 2023

• 12:00 - The Risk of Conflict in the Taiwan Strait: Strategy, Technology and Deterrence
  Dr James Lee (Academia Sinica)
  China Centre talks
• 16:00 - Oxford Political Thought Seminar - Ottomans
  Helen Pfeifer (Cambridge), Andrew Hammond (Oxford)
  Contemporary Islamic Studies Programme
• 16:00 - Optimized multidimensional ​​poverty reduction subject to aid targeting and tailoring: A variety of models centered on policy-makers’ capabilities
  Light refreshments from Currydor will be available to in-person attendees.
  Dr Vladimir Hlasny (UN ESCWA), Dr Hassan Hamie (UN ESCWA), Professor Paul Makdissi (University of Ottawa)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 17:00 - Social cohesion and integration of minorities in post-conflict Muslim societies
  Salma Mousa (Yale University)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 9 February 2023

• 17:00 - Imperial Gateway: Colonial Taiwan and Japan's Expansion in South China and Southeast Asia, 1895–1945 (ONLINE ONLY)
  Online only, via MS Teams
  Prof. Seiji Shirane (The City College of New York (CUNY))
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:00 - Imperial Gateway: Colonial Taiwan and Japan's Expansion in South China and Southeast Asia, 1895-1945 (ONLINE ONLY)
  Online only, via MS Teams
  Prof. Seiji Shirane (The City College of New York (CUNY))
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:15 - Postcolonial Writing and Theory Seminar: ‘Writing displacement, (re)writing the cosmopolis’
  Yasmin Akhtar (RHUL)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Friday 10 February 2023

• 13:00 - Fighting for International Communism? Chinese Youth in Burma during the Mao Era
  In-person event only. Presentation in Mandarin; bilingual Q&As
  Dr Ning Zhang (University of Oxford)
  Mandarin Forum
• 16:00 - The Local and the Coastal: How Slave-Ship Outfitters Understood Atlantic Africa
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Anne Ruderman (LSE)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The Iraq Invasion and Transnational Jihadism
  Thomas Hegghammer, Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 13 February 2023

• 12:30 - The Humbled Generation: Racial Otherization and Ethnic Contraction in Byzantium in the Witnesses of the Fourth Crusade
  Nathan D C Websdale (Oxford)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 14:00 - The Arafura Zone: Indigenous Globalisation in the Asian Pacific
  Manimporok Dotulong (Brown University)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 16:00 - Narrative Sensemaking Among Women Workers in the Bangladesh Garments Sector
  This is a hybrid event. To attend online please register via the link below. Attendees at Oxford are strongly encouraged to attend in person.
  Mahreen Khan (University of Oxford)
  Social Life of Work Seminar Series

Tuesday 14 February 2023

• 14:00 - Buddhism and Marginality in Translation among Ambedkarites in East Asia
  Dr Jon Keune (Michigan State University)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 14:00 - The Political Fairy Tale: The Case of Little Red Riding Hood in Palestine
  Loaay Wattad (Tel Aviv)
  Israel Studies Seminar Series Hilary Term 2023
• 15:00 - The Seasonality of Ottoman Imperial Power: Mecca, Medina, and the Sultan’s Purse
  Tyler Kynn (University of Memphis)
  Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire
• 17:00 - Geo-technology: an analysis of global decoupling pressures in technology and geopolitics today
  Scott Young (Consultant, Geo-technology (and former GGD student) from the Eurasia Group), Nick Reiners (Senior Analyst, Geo-technology, Eurasia Group)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series

Wednesday 15 February 2023

• 12:00 - Where next for ESG investing?’ a conversation with Baroness Morrissey DBE
  Baroness Helena Morrissey (House of Lords)
  Oxford SDG Impact Lab Lectures & Seminars
• 15:00 - China’s Ambitions to Explore the Moon and the Prospects for Lunar Governance
  Prof Martin Elvis (Harvard University), Dr Alanna Krolikowski (Missouri University of Science and Technology)
  China Centre talks
• 15:00 - Identifying effective strategies to improve livelihoods of LGBTI People
  Please note new time and location
  Professor Lee Badgett (University of Massachusetts)
  ODID Special Lectures & Seminars
• 16:00 - Cumulative deprivations in the labour market
  Light refreshments from restaurant Currydor will be provided.
  Professor Kirsten Sehnbruch (London School of Economics and Political Science), Dr Mauricio Apablaza (London School of Economics and Political Science and Universidad del Desarollo, Chile)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 17:00 - Russian colonialism and the Ismailis: The exploration and annexation of the Pamirs, 1879 - 1905
  Alexander Morrison (New College, Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 16 February 2023

• 14:00 - Meaningful, but lacking in depth? Critical attitudes to Sinitic material in the Poetry Contest in Six Hundred Rounds
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Thomas McAuley (University of Sheffield)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
• 17:00 - The Qing Empire and its Offshore Islands during the Long Eighteenth Century
  Prof. Ronald C. Po (LSE)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 17 February 2023

• 09:00 - Reforming Capitalism, Going Digital and Going Green: Does Japan Hold Answers?
  TBA
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
• 12:30 - Chinese State-Owned Companies and Investment in Latin America and Europe
  For link to full paper, please contact: information@chinese.ox.ac.uk
  Professor Larry Catá Backer (白 轲) (Pennsylvania State University)
  China Centre talks
• 13:00 - Doing the Game: An Ethnography of Undocumented Migration Trajectories from Afghanistan to Germany
  Hannah Pool (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series
• 16:00 - New World Royalists: Slavery and Inheritance in Plantation Jamaica
  Matthew Smith (UCL)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The Popular Mobilisation Units and their Pursuit of Power and Legitimacy within the Iraqi State
  Dr. Inna Rudolf, Senior Research Fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) at the War Studies Department of King’s College London and Partner at the Candid Foundation.
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 20 February 2023

• 12:30 - Mechanical Dragons and Underground Cults: Quodvultdeus’s Hidden Pagans
  James Duncan (Liverpool)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 15:00 - The Future of Transport in Oxford: A debate to reimagine what sustainable travel in Oxford could look like
  Dr Louise Upton (University of Oxford), Hannah Budnitz (University of Oxford), Professor Nick Eyre (University of Oxford), Prof Alexander Betts (University of Oxford)
  Oxford SDG Impact Lab Lectures & Seminars
• 17:00 - MEC & OSGA present - Women, Protests, Revolutions: Iran Uprising after Five Months.
  Dr. Sahar Maranlou. Lecturer in Law and Socio- Legal Studies. Essex School of Law, Dr. Naghmeh Sohrabi. Charles (Corky) Goodman professor of Middle East History and the Director for Research at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University, Dr. Pardis Asadi Zeidabadi. Researcher and Visiting Lecturer at City, University of London
  MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars

Tuesday 21 February 2023

• 13:00 - SEMINAR CANCELLED | The digital border and its techno-symbolic assemblages of power
  Prof Lilie Chouliaraki (LSE), Prof Myria Georgiou (LSE)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 14:00 - The Materiality of Debt, Kinship, and the Invisible Violence of Migration in Nepal
  Dr Ina Zharkevich (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 14:00 - The Israel Supreme Court Religion and the Relationship of State and Religion in Israel
  Professor Anat Scolnicov (Winchester)
  Israel Studies Seminar Series Hilary Term 2023
• 17:00 - Book Launch “Locked Out of Development: Insiders and Outsiders in Arab Capitalism”
  Steffen Hertog (Associate professor of comparative politics, Department of Government, LSE)
  Middle East Centre Tuesday Book Launch (Book Talk)

Wednesday 22 February 2023

• 16:00 - Oxford Political Thought Seminar - Constitutionalism
  Gianluca Parolin (Aga Khan University), Jocelyne Cesari (Harvard)
  Contemporary Islamic Studies Programme
• 16:00 - Multidimensional Poverty in Europe. A Longitudinal Perspective
  Light refreshments from Currydor will be provided.
  Dr Nicolai Suppa (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative), Professor Philippe Van Kerm (University of Luxembourg)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 17:00 - Religious rights and freedom of speech
  Rt Hon the Baroness Hale of Richmond DBE (Former President of the Supreme Court)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 23 February 2023

• 14:00 - Playing in the open: Getting familiar with Creative Commons licences
  Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Chris Morrison (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 14:00 - Going Logo: What to Expect of Japan's G7 Presidency
  Professor Hugo Dobson (University of Sheffield)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
• 14:30 - Open Scholarship: Logistics of Open Scholarship
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries), David Phillips (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Beth Paton (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Polly Bannister (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - Attitudes to Chinese Economic Investment in the Middle East and North Africa
  Professor Neil Ketchley (University of Oxford)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:15 - Postcolonial Writing and Theory Seminar: ‘Expanding English literature in Africa: Exploring publisher James Currey’s Contribution’
  Onyeka Nwelue (African Studies, Oxford)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Friday 24 February 2023

• 13:00 - Prayers, Votes and Money: The Impact of Religions on Rural Political Participation in China
  In-person event only. Mandarin presentation, bilingual PPT.
  Professor Pinghan Liang (Sun Yat-sen University)
  Mandarin Forum
• 13:00 - The Role(s) of Higher Education in Emergencies
  Prof Barbara Moser-Mercer (University of Nairobi)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series
• 16:00 - Manifesting Colonial Collectivities: Black Women and Trauma in Mid-Colonial Mexico
  Danielle Terrazas Williams (University of Leeds)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Cheaters Dilemma: Iraq, WMD and the path to the 2003 war
  The Chicken Farm problem: Iraqi WMD disclosures and the 2003 war
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 27 February 2023

• 16:00 - Title TBC
  This is a hybrid event. To attend online please register via the link below. Attendees at Oxford are strongly encouraged to attend in person.
  TBA
  Social Life of Work Seminar Series

Tuesday 28 February 2023

• 12:00 - The Sustainable Development Goals: A Perspective From Politics
  Lord Jack McConnell (House of Lords)
  Oxford SDG Impact Lab Lectures & Seminars
• 13:00 - SEMINAR CANCELLED | Asylum, digital surveillance and platform power
  Prof Claudia Aradau (King's College London)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 14:00 - A Cowherd’s Chapbook: An Inquiry into the Ethics of Literary Historiography
  Pranav Prakash (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Rituals of Loyalty: When Israeli Journalists Face Digital Hate
  Ayala Panievsky (Cambridge)
  Israel Studies Seminar Series Hilary Term 2023
• 15:00 - Southern Arabian Revolutions: Challenging Colonial Capitalism in the Indian Ocean
  Abdel Razzaq Takriti (University of Houston)
  Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire

Wednesday 1 March 2023

• 15:00 - Chinese Companies Going Global. Findings from the Cornell EMI report 2022
  Dr Lourdes Casanova (Cornell University), Dr Anne Miroux (Cornell University)
  China Centre talks
• 16:00 - Methodological Approaches on How to Measure Risk of Poverty with Income and Wealth
  Light refreshments from restaurant Currydor will be provided.
  Piotr Paradowski (LIS Cross-National Data Center), DrJörg Neugschwender (LIS Cross-National Data Center), Heba Omar (LIS Cross-National Data Center)
• 17:00 - Climate policy in Muslim societies
  Adil Najam (Boston University)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 2 March 2023

• 14:00 - Beyond "trans-border": Translation and Difference in Contemporary Japanese Literature.
  Dr Vicky Young (Kawashima Associate Professor in Modern Japanese Literature and Culture, University of Cambridge)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
• 17:00 - Dreaming Together: Communes Before Communism, 1919-1921
  Dr Shakhar Rahav (University of Haifa)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 3 March 2023

• 09:30 - GIH DPhil Presentations
  Please note change of date from 2 to 3 March
  Various Speakers
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 10:00 - Virtual borders: human rights and the fluid subject of algorithmic governance
  Dr Dimitri Van Den Meerssche (Queen Mary University of London)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Refugee Camps: From Temporary to Permanency in the Sub-Saharan and Mediterranean Area
  Juana Canet Rosselló (School of Architecture of Madrid)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series
• 13:00 - Evolution of Regime Complex in Global Governance: A Chinese Perspective on Human Genetic Information
  Presentation in Mandarin; bilingual Q&As
  Professor Hanzhi Yu (Zhejiang University)
  Mandarin Forum
• 17:00 - Iraq 2018-2019: The Rule of Law: a perspective
  The Rt Hon Sir Peter Gross, Formerly Lead Judge for International Relations
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 6 March 2023

• 12:30 - Hagiography and miracle performance in seventh-century Gaul
  Juliana Santos Dinoá Medeiros (Uniwersytet Warszawski)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 13:00 - One China, Many Taiwans: The Geopolitics of Cross-Strait Tourism
  Online seminar, which can be viewed at the China Centre
  TBA
  China Studies Seminar series
• 14:00 - Diaspora, Religion & Identity
  Yasmin Dualeh (University of Cambridge)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar

Tuesday 7 March 2023

• 12:00 - Book launch & discussion: Politics & the Urban Frontier: Transformation & Divergence in Late Urbanizing East Africa
  **Please note new time & location**. Hybrid event: co-hosted with the British Institute in Eastern Africa (BIEA Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_3v-l9_B3T8Ci3MDfb6OJcw
  Tom Goodfellow (Sheffield), Biruk Terrefe (University of Oxford)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series
• 12:00 - Situating Hong Kong in International Politics through Documentary Filmmaking: the Questions of Agency and Representation
  Dr Malte Kaeding (University of Surrey), Dr Heidi Wang-Kaeding (Keele University)
  China Centre talks
• 14:00 - Settler Colonial Studies, Secessions of Colonialism, and Ethnonationalism: An Edward Saidian Consideration?
  Dr Moshe Behar (Manchester)
  Israel Studies Seminar Series Hilary Term 2023
• 14:15 - Settler Colonial Studies, Secessions of Colonialism, and Ethnonationalism: An Edward Saidian Consideration
  A coffee and tea reception will be offered from 2pm.
  Moshe Behar (Manchester University)
  Israel Studies Seminar - Oct 2017 – Mar 2023
• 16:00 - Uncivil Liberalism and the Globalisation of Dadabhai Naoroji’s Ideas of Sociality
  Dr Vikram Visana (University of Leicester)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 16:00 - Thinking Again about American Jewish Liberalism: the ‘Children of 1848’ in the United States
  Abigail Green (Oxford)
  American History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - E A Lowe Lectures in Palaeography 2023 - Manuscripts of Character: Authority in Byzantium and Beyond
  Professor Niels Gaul
• 17:00 - The Future of Development Assistance
  Andrew Mitchell (Minister of State in the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO)), Baroness Arminka Helic (House of Lords), Lord Jonathan Oates (House of Lords)
  St Antony's Visiting Parliamentary Fellowship

Wednesday 8 March 2023

• 12:00 - Global Security and its political dimensions
  Dr Annette Idler (Blavatnik School of Government and Pembroke College), Professor Rana Mitter, Professor Samuel Makinda (Murdoch University), Dr Thomas Tieku (King's University College at The University of Western Ontario), Dr Igor Gretskiy (International Centre for Defence and Security), Samira Duale (Creative Alternatives Now)
• 12:45 - Local Living Standards in South Asia, 1870-1930
  Joseph Enguehard (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon)
  Economic and Social History Graduate Seminar
• 15:00 - Reading Histories of the Indies in the Sixteenth Century and Today: The Problem of Perspective
  Please note this seminar is now at 15:00, not 16:30
  Joan Pau Rubiés (ICREA & Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona)
  Iberian History Seminar
• 15:00 - Locating the Anthropocene: Markers, meaning, implications
  Simon Turner (AWG/UCL), Neil Rose (AWG/UCL), Andy Cundy (AWG/NOC Southampton), Jenny Bulstrode (UCL), Julia Adeney Thomas (Notre Dame), Chair: Anna Echterhölter (Vienna), Chair: John Sabapathy (UCL)
  Anthropocene Histories
• 16:00 - Oxford Political Thought Seminar - Politics
  Hussein Omar (University College Dublin), Susanna Ferguson (Smith College)
  Contemporary Islamic Studies Programme
• 16:00 - Multidimensional Poverty Dynamics in Indonesia in the time of COVID-19: Lessons Learned and Policy Implications
  Light refreshments will be available from Currydor.
  Dr Putu Natih (University of Oxford), Dr Elan Satriawan (Vice President’s Office, Indonesia)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 17:00 - Varieties of Islamic constitutionalism
  Clark B. Lombardi (National University of Singapore)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - A Cloister for the (Grand) Komnenoi: Dynastic Rivalry and Memoria at the Foundation of Dionysiou Monastery on Mount Athos
  Zachary Chitwood (Mainz)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:00 - Christian Yijing: James Legge's Moral and Religious Interpretation of The Book of Changes
  Professor John T. P. Lai (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
• 17:30 - What without texts? Discovering healing and medicine in the Harappan Civilisation of South Asia, 2600-1900 BCE
  Professor Robert Arnott (Green Templeton College)
  Ancient Medicine Seminar

Thursday 9 March 2023

• 13:00 - Contested Chinese Nationalism and Global Spatial Imaginaries at the Turn of the 20th Century
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group
• 14:00 - Commoning the City: The Townscape Councils of Kyoto
  Professor Christoph Brumann (Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
• 14:00 - Restitution of Knowledge: The Rosetta Stone and Egypt’s Estranged Heritage
  Dr Monica Hanna (AASTMT, Egypt)
• 15:30 - Missionary (Re)collecting from a Collapsing Empire: Museum Collections and the Dutch Spiritan Fathers in Late Colonial Angola
  Rita Almaral (Utrecht University)
  African Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Clean Air at What Cost? The Rise of Blunt Force Regulation in China
  Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:15 - Postcolonial Writing and Theory Seminar
  Alex Tadié (University of Paris-Sorbonne)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Friday 10 March 2023

• 09:30 - GIH MSt Presentations
  Various Speakers
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 10:00 - Missing Bodies, Missing Voices: Ordinary Lives and the Reframing of ‘Postwar Japan’
  TBA
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
• 17:00 - Anarchist Imperium: Postcolonial Gods and Masters
  Zaheer Kazmi (Cambridge University)
  Stateless Sovereignties: Forms, Trajectories, Futures
• 17:00 - 'The Transformation of Iraq since the 2003 Invasion: From "The Dodgy Dossier", to Human Security, Gender, and the Nation's Future in the Face of Climate Change'
  Ibrahim al-Marashi, Associate Professor at California State University, San Marcos
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Defiant Sculpture: Isek Bodys Kingelez and Mobutu Sese-Seko’s Authenticité, 1990s
  Now taking place online on 10 March - time still to be confirmed.
  Chika Okeke-Agulu
  Slade Lectures 2023: African Artists in the Age of the Big Man

Monday 13 March 2023

• 12:30 - War Discourse in Times of Crisis: Authorial Strategies in Byzantine Historical Literature of the 14th century
  Maria Rukavichnikova (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 16:00 - Nations Ascendant: Towards a Global Intellectual History of Self Determination
  Professor Zaib un Nisa Aziz (University of South Florida, Tampa)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Wednesday 15 March 2023

• 16:00 - Counting and Accounting: Measuring the Effectiveness of Fiscal Policy in Multidimensional Poverty Reduction
  Online only
  Dr Maria Emma Santos (OPHI, CONICET)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty

Friday 17 March 2023

• 11:30 - Day 1 - The 54th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies: Material Religion in Byzantium & Beyond
  Various Speakers
  The 54th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies: Material Religion in Byzantium & Beyond

Saturday 18 March 2023

• 09:00 - Day 2 - The 54th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies: Material Religion in Byzantium & Beyond
  Various Speakers
  The 54th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies: Material Religion in Byzantium & Beyond

Sunday 19 March 2023

• 09:00 - Day 3 - The 54th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies: Material Religion in Byzantium & Beyond
  Various Speakers
  The 54th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies: Material Religion in Byzantium & Beyond

Monday 20 March 2023

• 15:00 - Global Black Women’s Writing: Experimental Subjectivities - Workshop 4
  Pelagia Goulimari, Naomi Morgenstern (University of Toronto, Canada), Milo Obourn (SUNY Brockport, US), Sheldon George

Wednesday 29 March 2023

• 19:00 - Malika Moustadraf's Something Strange, Like Hunger
  Alice Guthrie (Translator)
  Translation Exchange: International Book Club

Monday 3 April 2023

• 10:30 - Doctoral workshop: 'Elites in the first French colonial empire (16th-20th centuries)'
  Please note that the workshop will be held in French but English could freely be employed during the discussion.
  Various Speakers
• 15:00 - Nur, Darshan & Enlightenment: Three Approaches to Connecting Texts and Textiles in 18th century Bengal
  Samia Khatun (SOAS, University of London)
  Interreligious Interactions in South Asia (Virtual Colloquium)

Tuesday 4 April 2023

• 15:00 - A Bhakti Mahabharata for Aurangzeb? Sabalsingh Chauhan’s Bhasha Retelling of the Epic
  Sohini Sarah Pillai (Kalamazoo College)
  Interreligious Interactions in South Asia (Virtual Colloquium)

Wednesday 5 April 2023

• 15:00 - Seeking Allah and Krishna: Sufism and Religious Interactions from South Asia
  Kashshaf Ghani (Nalanda University)
  Interreligious Interactions in South Asia (Virtual Colloquium)

Thursday 6 April 2023

• 15:00 - Contests over the Boundaries of Hindu-Muslim Friendship
  SherAli Tareen
  Interreligious Interactions in South Asia (Virtual Colloquium)

Friday 7 April 2023

• 15:00 - Socio-Political Dimensions of Spiritual Practice in Gujarat: Notes from Two 15th century Sufi silsilahs
  Jyoti Gulati Balachandran (Penn State University)
  Interreligious Interactions in South Asia (Virtual Colloquium)

Wednesday 12 April 2023

• 15:00 - Rāma and Sītā as Adam and Eve: The Rāmāyaṇa through the Prism of the Persian Romance
  Shankar Ayillath Nair
  Interreligious Interactions in South Asia (Virtual Colloquium)

Thursday 20 April 2023

• 10:30 - Open Scholarship: Logistics of Open Scholarship
  Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Monday 24 April 2023

• 12:30 - Late Antique Personifications of Abstract Ideas and Elite Identity
  Prolet Decheva (University College Dublin)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 16:00 - Shifting cultivation work across generations: social reproduction, gendered labour, and divergent aspirations in Andhra Pradesh, India
  This is a hybrid event - to attend online please register via the link. All are warmly invited to attend in person to take advantage of the informal gathering with drinks afterwards for further discussion and networking.
  Thomas Herzmark (London School of Economics)
  Social Life of Work Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Why Do Chinese Filmmakers Love Melons? and Other Questions from a New Digital Archive of Early Cinema
  Professor Christopher Rea (University of British Columbia)
• 17:00 - Sultan Azlan Shah Lecture: Islamic finance in English law: a level playing field?
  Lord Briggs of Westbourne, PC (Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies - Events

Tuesday 25 April 2023

• 14:00 - Documenting oral histories of Partition collaboratively across a communal divide
  Guneeta Singh Bhalla (Partition Archive, India)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 15:00 - Mapping Gulf Infrastructure and Territory
  Stephen J Ramos (University of Georgia)
  Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire
• 17:00 - Gagauz Culture and Language of Bessarabia
  TBA
  TOSCCA/ONGC Seminar series on the Caucasus and Central Asia

Wednesday 26 April 2023

• 11:30 - Book Talk: ‘Queer Diplomacy: Homophobia, International Relations, and LGBT Human Rights’
  Dr Douglas Janoff
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series
• 12:00 - The US‒Japan Alliance and Taiwan
  Professor Adam P Liff (Indiana University)
  China Centre talks
• 17:00 - The Social World of Traders: Commerce and Social Differentiation in Pre-conflict Aleppo
  Dr Paul S. Anderson (University of Cambridge)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 27 April 2023

• 17:00 - Eastern Christian Thought and Scholarship on the Syriac Orient, Jerusalem and the Christian encounter with Islam: Youakim Moubarac (1924-1995) in dialogue with Louis Massignon (1883-1962)
  Anthony O'Mahony (Blackfriars Hall)
  Faith to Faith: Muslim and Christian Thought in the Modern Middle East and South Asia
• 17:00 - Negotiated Sovereignty: The Fisherfolks and the State in the Northern Gulf of Tonkin, 1954‒1964
  Dr Qingfei Yin (LSE)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:00 - Goldsmith of Golden Ages: Masked Innovation by Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ (Immolated in AH 139–140/757–758 CE)
  István Kristo-Nagy (Exeter)
  After Rome and Further East Seminar

Friday 28 April 2023

• 12:00 - “Are We Allowed to Find Beauty in the Face of Death and Destruction: Ishiuchi Miyako’s Hiroshima and Postwar Japan”
  Professor Yoshikuni Igarashi (Vanderbilt University and Visiting Research Scholar at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken))
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
• 13:00 - Values Confliction and Identification in China’s Generation Y
  Mandarin presentation; English PPT; bilingual Q&As
  Professor Leiping Bao (Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences)
  Mandarin Forum
• 17:00 - Book Launch - Russia and the GCC 'The Case of Tatarstan’s Paradiplomacy'
  The person who asks the best question from the audience during the audience Q&A will be gifted a copy of the book from the author
  Dr Diana Galeeva (Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 1 May 2023

• 12:30 - The Crisis of the Chalcedonian Episcopate in Egypt, c. 652-c. 710
  Paul Ulishney (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 16:00 - Along The Path To Gandhi's Neighbor
  Ajay Skaria (University of Minnesota)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 17:00 - Guarding Dictatorship: China's Surveillance State.
  Professor Minxin Pei (Claremont McKenna College)
  China Centre talks

Tuesday 2 May 2023

• 14:00 - Rohingyas in Decolonisation as a Moment, Process, and Movement
  Dr Jayita Sarkar (Glasgow)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Book Talk | A World of Insecurity: Democratic Disenchantment in Rich and Poor Countries
  Professor Pranab Bardhan (University of California, Berkeley)
• 16:15 - Gifts Amongst Khans, Sultans, Emperors, and Shahs: The Circulation of Abu’l-Khairid Manuscripts to the Safavids, Ottomans, and Mughals in the 16th Century
  Jaimee Comstock-Skipp (Oxford)
  Early Modern Diplomacy c.1400-1800
• 17:00 - The Visualisation of Archaeological Hypotheses with Digital Technologies - An Architectural View on Islamic and Other Heritage
  Prof. Dominik Lengyel (Brandenburg University of Technology)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)
• 17:00 - Land, Church and Identity of the Caucasian Albanians in Historical Narratives: Late Medieval and Early Modern Periods
  TBA
  TOSCCA/ONGC Seminar series on the Caucasus and Central Asia
• 17:00 - Israel's Covert Diplomacy in the Middle East
  Professor Elie Podeh (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series

Wednesday 3 May 2023

• 12:00 - China’s Path to Global Influence
  Prof. Richard Carney (China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), Shanghai)
  China Centre talks
• 12:45 - Public health in the civilian population of India, 1850-1940
  David Gawkrodger (Oxford)
  Economic and Social History Graduate Seminar
• 17:00 - Tunisia’s Democratic Transition: Autonomous Activism and Accountability
  Dr Rory P. McCarthy (Durham University)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - The UN at a time of geopolitical divisions: challenges and opportunities
  Sam Daws (University of Oxford)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series
• 17:00 - Ruling the Sichuan’s Stage: Reading China’s Sociocultural Transformation from the 18th to the 20th Century through the Perspective of Opera
  Dr Igor Iwo Chabrowski (University of Warsaw)
  China Centre talks

Thursday 4 May 2023

• 16:00 - POSTPONED: Agrarian Questions of Gendered Labour in Global South Development Trajectories
  This event has been POSTPONED. A new date will be announced in due course.
  Lyn Ossome (Associate Professor of Political Studies, Political Studies Department, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg)
  ODS Annual Lectures
• 17:00 - The Future of Pushtun Women in Afghanistan and Pakistan
  Amineh Hoti (University of Cambridge)
  Faith to Faith: Muslim and Christian Thought in the Modern Middle East and South Asia
• 17:00 - Kharpert – a historical perspective
  Ara Sarafian (Gomidas Institute)
  Silence and Visuality Seminar Series in Armenian Art and History
• 17:00 - A Greek commemorative Inscription from Tafah (Lower Nubia): A Contribution to the History of Nubia in the Sixth/Seventh Centuries
  Adam Łajtar (Warsaw)
  After Rome and Further East Seminar
• 17:15 - Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar: ‘Teju Cole's Poetics of Secrecy and Revelation’
  Kai Wiegandt (Said-Barenboim Academy, Berlin)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Friday 5 May 2023

• 16:00 - Democratizing Luxury: Name Brands, Advertising, and Consumption in Modern Japan
  Professor Annika A. Culver (Florida State University)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
• 17:00 - Shi‘a visions of Muslim unity in contemporary Britain
  Dr Elvire Corboz (University of Edinburgh)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 8 May 2023

• 12:30 - Challenging Authorities: How and Why Byzantine Scholars Emended Classical and Authoritative Texts
  Valeria Annunziata (La Sapienza Università di Roma)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 16:00 - A New Vision of Vivekananda?
  Ruth Harris (University of Oxford )
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 17:00 - 2023 George Rousseau Lecture - Conversations about Roads: A R J Turgot and Economic Enlightenment
  Professor Emma Rothschild (Harvard)
  George Rousseau Lectures

Tuesday 9 May 2023

• 14:00 - Spaces of Melancholia, Melancholias of Space: Shifting Structures of Feeling in Post-Independence Karachi
  Dr Ayyaz Mallick (Liverpool)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 15:00 - Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India
  Andrew B Liu (Villanova University)
  Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire
• 17:00 - Kars and Batum under Russian Rule (1878-1918): Southwest Caucasus or North-eastern Anatolia?
  TBA
  TOSCCA/ONGC Seminar series on the Caucasus and Central Asia
• 17:00 - Palestinian Women on Demonic Grounds? When Gender is Undone by the German Security Discourse
  Dr Sultan Doughan (University of London), Dr Sultan Doughan (University of London)
  Women's Rights Research Seminars

Wednesday 10 May 2023

• 12:00 - SDG Lab Q&A with Dr Max Roser, Director of Our World in Data
  Dr Max Roser (Director of Our World in Data)
• 12:45 - The Transition from Custom to Contract: The Traditional Land Tenure System of Bengal and the Record of Rights
  Alex Nagar (Oxford)
  Economic and Social History Graduate Seminar
• 17:00 - Islam and the East: The New Geopolitics of Religion and Identity
  Prof Peter Mandaville (George Mason University)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 11 May 2023

• 10:30 - Oxford Sanctuary Fair 2023
  Various Speakers
• 13:00 - Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar: ‘Storytelling and identities in contemporary Namibia’
  Nelson Mlambo (University of Namibia)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar
• 16:00 - The social and political life of Latin American infrastructures: Insights from the Ecuadorian Andes
  Dr Geoff Goodwin (University of Leeds)
• 17:00 - The Philosophy and Theology of ‘Allama Iqbal
  Monsignor Dr. Michael Nazir-Ali (St Edmund Hall)
  Faith to Faith: Muslim and Christian Thought in the Modern Middle East and South Asia
• 17:00 - TALK POSTPONED: The Wor(l)d Itself: The Language of Mapping China
  TALK POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
  Dr Stephen Whiteman (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:00 - Flattery and Conflict in al-Buḥturī’s Poems for Ṣāliḥ ibn Waṣīf
  Gabrielle Russo (Cambridge)
  After Rome and Further East Seminar
• 17:30 - Lecture 1: Manuscripts and Rituals: The Written Transmission of the Zoroastrian Rituals
  Professor Alberto Cantera (Freie Universität Berlin)
  9th Ratanbai Katrak Lectures

Friday 12 May 2023

• 12:00 - How do Japanese public high schools respond to immigrant students? Challenges of diversity and educational equity in Tokyo
  Professor Misako Nukaga (University of Tokyo), Professor Fumiko Takahashi (University of Tokyo), Professor Tomoko Tokunaga (University of Tsukuba)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
• 13:00 - Network Games: Strategic Reasoning in International Relations (With Applications in Chinese Foreign Policy)
  Presentation in Mandarin; PPT in English; bilingual Q&As
  Dr Yuke Li
  Mandarin Forum
• 17:00 - Green "new" deal for the Global South or more of the same?
  This is a hybrid event. To attend online please register via the link.
  Aruna Chandrasekhar (Independent journalist)
  Climate Change and the Challenges of Development
• 17:30 - The Conflict in Syria, A Personal Story
  Dr Haytham Alhamwi (Syrian British Consortium), Dr Husam Haj Omar (University of Oxford)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 15 May 2023

• 12:30 - ‘Against All Men’: The Movement of Military Service in Byzantine and English Treaties, 900-1200
  Benjamin Morris (Cardiff University)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 13:00 - ONLINE: Rival Partners: How Taiwanese Entrepreneurs and Guangdong Officials Forged the Development Model
  Online event. Can be viewed online remotely or at China Centre.
  Dr Jieh-min Wu (Academia Sinica)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 16:00 - Seduced by God or Man? Religious Conversions and Women’s Desire in Pakistan
  Ghazal Asif Farrukhi (Lahore University of Management Sciences)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Tuesday 16 May 2023

• 10:30 - Open Scholarship: Fundamentals of Open Access
  Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 13:00 - RSC Trinity Term Public Seminar Series |Dr Dan Renshaw (University of Reading), ‘The British Churches, Refugee ‘Crises’ and Anti-Migrant Sentiment 1903-1918’
  Dr Daniel Renshaw (University of Reading)
  RSC Trinity Term Public Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Entangled Objects, Entangled Nations: Partition and Museums in Lahore and Chandigarh
  Aparna Kumar (UCL)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Going to Seed or Roots of Change: The State of Illustrated Manuscripts in Transoxiana, circa 1570-1600
  TBA
  TOSCCA/ONGC Seminar series on the Caucasus and Central Asia

Wednesday 17 May 2023

• 12:00 - Decoupling in the Digital Age: China and the Challenge of Massive Modularity
  Prof. Eric Thun (University of Oxford)
  China Centre talks
• 16:00 - Oxford Political Thought - Revolution
  Please register online at https://tinyurl.com/38rwa4ba or through our Centre webpage https://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/events/oxford-political-thought-seminar-revolution to receive your personal ZOOM link.
  Professor Roxanne Euben (University of Pennsylvania), Professor Walter Armbrust (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
  Political Thought
• 17:00 - Writing the History of Saladin
  Prof Jonathan Phillips (Royal Holloway, University of London)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:30 - The Sir Joseph Hotung Memorial Lecture: Human rights, China and the international order
  Lord Chris Patten (Chancellor, University of Oxford and Patron of the ESC)
  Mansfield Public Talks

Thursday 18 May 2023

• 17:00 - Between Philology and Philosophy: The accommodation of Islamicate sciences in Late Imperial China
  Dror Weil (Cambridge)
  Magic, Maths, Mamluks, and Mongols: History of Islamic Science at the Boundaries
• 17:00 - Entangled urban history beyond Rome post-AD 500. Narratives from Gerasa on the Gold River
  Rubina Raja (Aarhus University/All Souls College, Oxford)
  After Rome and Further East Seminar
• 17:30 - Lecture 2. “The Questioned Antiquity of the Zoroastrian Rituals: Their Reception in Western Academia” – Thurs 18 May 2023 at 5:30pm
  Professor Alberto Cantera (Freie Universität Berlin)
  9th Ratanbai Katrak Lectures

Friday 19 May 2023

• 12:00 - 日本語の役割語における性差の表現 Expressing Gender Differences in Japanese Role Language
  Professor Satoshi Kinsui (Director of the Osaka Study Center, The Open University of Japan)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
• 17:00 - Book Launch, The Caliph and the Imam: The Making of Sunnism and Shiism
  Copies of Toby's book will be on sale at the event at a 30% discount, £17.50 (RRP £25). Payment by card only please, we are not able to accept cash payments on this occasion.
  Dr Toby Matthiesen (Ca’ Foscari University)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 22 May 2023

• 12:30 - Collateral Damage: Eastern Women’s Experiences in the Roman-Persian Wars, 4th- 6th c.
  Emily Chesley (Princeton University)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 13:00 - Rejuvenating Communism: Youth Organizations and Elite Renewal in Post-Mao China
  This talk will be in the Ho Tim Seminar Room (first floor)
  Dr Jérôme Doyon (Sciences Po)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 16:00 - Empires of Complaints: Mughal Law and the Making of British India
  Robert Travers (Cornell University)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 16:00 - Work as a right, work as a crime
  This is a hybrid event - to attend online please register via the link. All are warmly invited to attend in person to take advantage of the informal gathering with drinks afterwards for further discussion and networking.
  Mayaan Niezna (University of Oxford)
  Social Life of Work Seminar Series

Tuesday 23 May 2023

• 13:00 - RSC Trinity Term Public Seminar Series | Dr Ria Kapoor (Queen Mary University of London), 'Making Refugees in India'
  Dr Ria Kapoor (Queen Mary university of London)
  RSC Trinity Term Public Seminar Series
• 14:00 - India as a ‘civilisational state’
  Emma Mawdsley (University of Cambrdige), Kate Sullivan de Estrada (University of Oxford), Sebastian Haug (University of Cambrdige), Jayati Sristava, Esra Elif Nartok, Udayan Das, Shibashis Chatterjee
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 15:00 - Worldmaking in the Hijaz: Muslims between Indian and Soviet Visions of Managing Difference, 1919-1926
  Roy Bar Sadeh (Yale University)
  Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire
• 15:00 - Open Scholarship: Your thesis, copyright and ORA
  David Watson (Bodleian Libraries), Thomas Mitchell (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - Transnational Nationalism: Visions of Abkhazia, 1992-1993
  TBA
  TOSCCA/ONGC Seminar series on the Caucasus and Central Asia
• 17:00 - Vessels and Cargos: Spaces of Inclusion and Exclusion in Johnnie To’s Drug War and Lee Hae-young’s Korean Remake Believer
  Dr Jinhee Choi (King's College London)
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China

Wednesday 24 May 2023

• 10:00 - Open Scholarship: Fundamentals of Open Access
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - Islam and Empire in India: The Padshah's Sacred Authority and Religious Pluralism in Mughal Times
  Prof Corinne Lefevre (Centre for South Asian Studies (CNRS-EHESS))
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - "Our Voices Reached the Sky": Sonic Memories of the Armenian Genocide
  Gascia Ouzounian (University of Oxford)
  Silence and Visuality Seminar Series in Armenian Art and History

Thursday 25 May 2023

• 17:00 - From Public Sympathy to Collective Anger: Media, Emotions, and Politics in 1930s-China
  Dr. Xin Fan (University of Cambridge)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:00 - The science of silence: alchemy, astronomy, and heresy in the work of al-Safadi
  Yusuf Tayara (Oxford)
  Magic, Maths, Mamluks, and Mongols: History of Islamic Science at the Boundaries
• 17:00 - The History of Theology and the Social and Political History of the Church in Early Islam
  in collaboration with the MFO
  Bastien Dumont (Lorraine)
  After Rome and Further East Seminar
• 17:15 - Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar: ‘Victorian World Literature: Asian Classics Translated for the Popular Audience’
  Alex Bubb (Roehampton)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar
• 17:30 - Lecture 3. “The Ritual System: Modularity and Productivity''
  Professor Alberto Cantera (Freie Universität Berlin)
  9th Ratanbai Katrak Lectures

Friday 26 May 2023

• 13:00 - China's Asymmetric Statecraft: Alignments, Competitors, and Regional Diplomacy
  Mandarin presentation; English PPT; bilingual Q&As
  Professor Yuxing Huang (Tsinghua University)
  Mandarin Forum
• 14:00 - Being Christian in China
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group

Monday 29 May 2023

• 16:00 - Dharma, Artha, and the Politics of Law and Sovereignty in Colonial India
  Sunil Purushotham (Fairfield University)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Tuesday 30 May 2023

• 13:00 - RSC Trinity Term Public Seminar Series |Dr Anne Irfan (University College London), ‘Refuge and Resistance: Palestinians and the global refugee regime’
  Dr Anne Irfan (University College London)
  RSC Trinity Term Public Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Resistance and Change in Pakistan’s Political Order
  Various Speakers
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 15:00 - Made In Hong Kong: Transpacific Networks and a New History of Globalization
  Peter E Hamilton (Lingnan University)
  Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire
• 17:00 - The Great Terror in Soviet Uzbekistan: Mechanisms, Methods and Means
  TBA
  TOSCCA/ONGC Seminar series on the Caucasus and Central Asia
• 17:00 - Women’s movements and citizenship in the Middle East
  Dr Roel Meijer (Radboud Universiteit, The Netherlands), Professor Marilyn Booth (Discussant) (University of Oxford)
  Women's Rights Research Seminars
• 17:00 - The shariatic turn in 13th-century Islamic law. Historical evidence and doctrinal changes
  Dr Christian Müller

Wednesday 31 May 2023

• 11:00 - Institutional Diversity in Refugee Recognition Regimes
  Please register here: https://invtdu.to/_0dk9x
  TBA
• 12:45 - History of Placement Signals: 18th Century China
  Sheng Qian (Oxford)
  Economic and Social History Graduate Seminar
• 13:00 - The Myth and Facts of China's Public Surveillance System: Evidence from the Government Procurement Contracts
  Professor Pinghan Liang (Sun Yat-sen University)
  China Centre talks
• 16:00 - Roundtable discussion - Seeing is Believing: stories of forced migration through the lens of creative technologies
  Professor Navtej Purewal, Dr Sonja Wolf, Dr Benjamin Worku-Dix, Chair: Bidisha Mamata
  Oxford Centre for Global History events
• 17:00 - Institutions, Guilds, and Economic Prosperity
  Prof Sheilagh Ogilvie (All Souls College, Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 1 June 2023

• 13:00 - Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar: ‘Narrative and intervention: the case of the Herero-Nama genocide, Namibia’
  Nelson Mlambo (University of Namibia)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar
• 16:00 - Framed by the Archive: Maoist Revolution and the Case of Merchant Zha, 1949‒1952
  Professor Brian DeMare (Tulane University)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:00 - The Shah, the Synaxarion, and the Seventeenth Century: Silenced Sources, Textual Transmission, and “Aesthetic Decline” in Early Modern Armenian Books
  Erin Pinon (Princeton University)
  Silence and Visuality Seminar Series in Armenian Art and History
• 17:00 - Ilm al-Nujūm in the fifteenth century Sultanate of Cairo Islamic astronomy/astrology and the importance of boundary work
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Fien de Block (Ghent University)
  Magic, Maths, Mamluks, and Mongols: History of Islamic Science at the Boundaries
• 17:00 - The First Mourners of Zion: From Iran to Jerusalem in the Ninth Century
  Eve Krakowski (Princeton)
  After Rome and Further East Seminar
• 17:15 - Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar
  Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford), Charles Forsdick (James Barrow Professor French and AHRC Theme Leadership Fellow for ‘Translating Cultures’, Liverpool), Sarah Jilani (City, University of London), Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar
• 17:30 - The Zuccari Brothers and the 'People of God'
  Dr Cristelle Baskins (Tufts University), Dr Leah Clark (Kellogg College)

Monday 5 June 2023

• 09:00 - TGHS Annual Graduate Conference: Diaspora: Identity & Belonging (Day 1)
  TBA
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 12:30 - Keeping Time in Byzantium: Temporal Imagery and Thought in the Calendars of Later Byzantium
  Peter Boudreau (McGill University)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 14:00 - A Zen Foundation for Critical Subjectivity in the New Field of Contemplative Studies
  Professor Harold D. Roth (Brown University)
  Yin-Cheng Distinguished Lecture Series
• 16:00 - “His Soul was a Bird of the Divine Throne”: Persian Inscriptions on Mughal Imperial Tombs and Mosques
  A. Azfar Moin (The University of Texas at Austin)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 16:00 - Self and training: the making of work personas in the hotel industry in Mexico
  This is a hybrid event - to attend online please register via the link. All are warmly invited to attend in person to take advantage of the informal gathering with drinks afterwards for further discussion and networking.
  Emilia Pool Illsley (Oxford Department of International Development)
  Social Life of Work Seminar Series
• 16:00 - An Introduction to and Revisionist Critique of the Case (案) as Historical Source and Administrative Artefact in Local Jurisdictions of the Late Empire
  Dr Maura Dykstra (Caltech)
  China Studies Seminar series

Tuesday 6 June 2023

• 09:00 - TGHS Annual Graduate Conference: Diaspora: Identity & Belonging (Day 2)
  For details, please see https://www.oxfordtghs.com/
  Various Speakers
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 13:00 - RSC Trinity Term Public Seminar Series | Associate Professor Saskia Witteborn (Chinese University of Hong Kong), ‘Migration and the Politics of Transgression: A Historical Perspective’
  Associate Professor Saskia Witteborn (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
  RSC Trinity Term Public Seminar Series
• 15:00 - Evolving Traditions: Networks of Empire and the Changing Economies of Islamic Intellectual Production in East Africa (c. 1800-1945)
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Scott Reese (University of Hamburg)
  Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire
• 17:00 - Pregnancy as an Opportunity to Improve Women’s Lifelong Health
  Dr Jane Hirst (Nuffield Department of Women's & Reproductive Health, University of Oxford)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)
• 17:00 - Do Seeds Fire up the Belt and Road Initiative? The Politics of the Diffusion of Chinese Crop Seeds in Tajikistan
  Irna Hofman (Oxford)
  TOSCCA/ONGC Seminar series on the Caucasus and Central Asia
• 17:00 - Book Launch and Discussion: V. Calzolari - The Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles in Armenia
  Professor Valentina Calzolari (University of Geneva/University of Oxford)

Wednesday 7 June 2023

• 12:00 - Vodafone Group's ESG Strategy and the Digital Divide with Bobbie Mellor
  Bobbie Mellor (Vodafone Group)
• 12:45 - Economic Stabilization in Post-war China, 1945-1949
  Man-Sing Cheung (Oxford)
  Economic and Social History Graduate Seminar
• 13:00 - The 'local turn', 'hybridity', and 'friction' in refugee governance: an ethnography of Refugee-Led Organizations (RLOs) in the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh
  Dr Salehin Mohammad (UiT-The Arctic University of Norway)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series
• 14:00 - Open Scholarship: Playing in the open: Getting familiar with Creative Commons licences
  Chris Morrison (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 16:45 - Memorial Event: Derek Hopwood OBE, Emeritus Fellow in Middle Eastern Studies (1933-2020) & Celia Kerslake, Emeritus Fellow in Turkish (1946-2023)
  Various Speakers
• 17:00 - Keith Griffin Lecture - Negotiating a Violent Terrain: Political Engagement in Sahel and Somalia
  Dr Comfort Ero (President and CEO, International Crisis Group)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies - Events

Thursday 8 June 2023

• 17:00 - Sino-US Relations: A Historical Perspective from the Pearl River Delta
  Professor John D. Wong (The University of Hong Kong)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:00 - On the other side of silence - in conversation with Hrair Sarkissian
  Hrair Sarkissian
  Silence and Visuality Seminar Series in Armenian Art and History
• 17:00 - “To predict the success or failure of something, they use no other instrument than the astrolabe": astrology and artistry at the Safavid court
  Federica Gigante (History of Science Museum, Oxford)
  Magic, Maths, Mamluks, and Mongols: History of Islamic Science at the Boundaries
• 17:00 - Agrarian Questions of Gendered Labour in Global South Development Trajectories
  This is a hybrid event. Please follow the link to register.
  Professor Lyn Ossome (Makerere Institute of Social Research, Makerere University)
• 17:00 - The King’s Road: Diplomacy and the Remaking of the Silk Road
  Xin Wen (Princeton)
  After Rome and Further East Seminar
• 17:00 - Sharing Insights: The Lived Experience of Syrian Refugees in Canada
  Keith Neuman (Environics Institute for Survey Research), Jobran Khanji (Environics Institute for Survey Research)
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures

Friday 9 June 2023

• 13:00 - Alterity of Original: The Text Construction and Classics Interpretation in the Translation of the Daodejing by James Legge
  Mandarin presentation, English PPT, bilingual Q&As
  Professor Ayong Lei (Minjiang University)
  Mandarin Forum

Monday 12 June 2023

• 12:30 - Between the 'self' and the 'other': the case of the gasmouloi in Late Byzantium
  Jack Dooley (Royal Holloway, University of London)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 14:30 - Open Scholarship: Logistics of Open Scholarship
  Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 16:00 - CANCELLED - Red Maulanas: Islam and the Left in South Asia
  Layli Uddin (Queen Mary University of London)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Tuesday 13 June 2023

• 12:00 - Open Scholarship: Foundations of Copyright for Researchers
  Chris Morrison (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Wednesday 14 June 2023

• 14:00 - Exile and the history of Palestine: Safed and the Critique of Zionism
  Professor Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin (Ben Gurion University, Israel)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Oxford Political Though - Heresy
  Registration essential to receive your personal ZOOM link
  Teena Purohit (Boston University), Zaki Rehman (University of Oxford)
  Political Thought
• 17:00 - ASEAN: Navigating Geopolitical Turbulence in the Indo-Pacifi
  Dr Marty Natalegawa (Former Foreign Minister of Indonesia)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies - Events

Thursday 15 June 2023

• 17:00 - Annual George Antonius Memorial Lecture 2023: Zionism and the Jews of Iraq: A Personal Perspective
  Copies of the book will be on sale at the event (cash only). Please aim to arrive in good time to be assured a seat.
  Emeritus Professor Avi Shlaim (University of Oxford)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series
• 17:00 - POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE: China’s Law of the Sea
  This talk has been postponed until further notice
  Dr Isaac B Kardon (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:00 - Power and Science in Late Antique Iran: Zoroastrian Apologetic Discourse on Access to Universal Knowledge
  Samra Azarnouche (EPHE, Paris)
  After Rome and Further East Seminar
• 17:15 - Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar: ‘Writing displacement, (re)writing the cosmopolis’
  Yasmin Akther (RHU)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Monday 19 June 2023

• 12:30 - Title to be confirmed shortly
  Rachel Catherine Patt (Princeton University)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar

Thursday 29 June 2023

• 09:15 - Open Scholarship: Copyright the Card Game
  Chris Morrison (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Monday 3 July 2023

• 14:00 - Open Scholarship: Forum of Open Scholarship
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Tuesday 4 July 2023

• 14:00 - Open Scholarship: Your thesis, copyright and ORA
  David Watson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Thomas Mitchell (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship

Thursday 27 July 2023

• 10:30 - Open scholarship: fundamentals of open access
  Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Tuesday 15 August 2023

• 01:00 - Prospects for Democracy and the Muslim Subject: Reflecting on the Raba'a Massacre Ten Years On - 2-day Online-Only Conference
  Registration essential, to receive your personal ZOOM link add your details at: https://tinyurl.com/MEC2023Aug
  TBA

Tuesday 12 September 2023

• 14:30 - Open scholarship: logistics of open scholarship
  Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Monday 25 September 2023

• 09:00 - Hadith, Piety, and Law: A Conference in Honour of Christopher Melchert
  E-mail ruth.macdonald@humanities.ox.ac.uk to register.
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 27 September 2023

• 17:30 - Kazakhstan: Past, Present and Future
  HE Mr Magzhan Ilyassov (Ambassador of the Republic of Kazakhstan)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies - Events

Friday 6 October 2023

• 12:00 - Sparks: China's Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future
  Ian Johnson
  China Centre talks

Monday 9 October 2023

• 14:30 - Open scholarship: foundations of copyright for researchers
  Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Chris Morrison (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 16:00 - Book Launch: The Muslim Secular by Dr Amar Sohal
  Amar Sohal (University of Cambridge), Faisal Devji (University of Oxford), Teresa Bejan (University of Oxford)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 16:00 - OPHI IIEP GWU Seminar Series: Global MPI
  Professor Sabina Alikre (Director of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty

Tuesday 10 October 2023

• 12:00 - Hong Kong: Not Just Another Chinese City
  Vaudine England (Leiden University)
  China Centre talks
• 14:00 - A City of Men? Youth Masculinities and Everyday Gendered Violences in Urban India
  Shannon Philips (UEA)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 15:00 - From Empires of Coal and Steam to the Petro-States and Saltwater Kingdoms: The Indian Ocean Roots of Fossil-Fueled Water in the Arabian Peninsula and Gulf, 1850-2100
  MIichael Christopher Low ((University of Utah))
  Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire
• 17:00 - Science and Islam: A Perspective from Rural Bangladesh
  Dr Abed Chaudhury (Co-founder and Chief Scientist, Genofax, Australia & USA; Chairman, Krishan Foundation, Bangladesh)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)
• 17:30 - A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story by Nathan Thrall
  Nathan Thrall (Author and Journalist)
  Middle East Centre Tuesday Book Launch (Book Talk)

Wednesday 11 October 2023

• 17:00 - Arabic's Easternmost Frontier: Arabic Manuscripts, Sufism and Courtly Culture in Southeast Asia, 17th-18th Centuries
  Prof Andrew Peacock (University of St Andrews)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Literary Transmission as Political Action: Feng Menglong's Mountain Songs Compendium (c. 1610)
  Professor Leigh Jenco (LSE)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 13 October 2023

• 16:00 - Oxford Centre for Global History 2nd Anthony Gwilliam Annual Lecture: Writing a Global History of the End of Britain
  Registration has closed
  Professor Stuart Ward (Copenhagen)
  Oxford Centre for Global History events
• 16:00 - Writing a Global History of the End of Britain (Oxford Centre for Global History 2nd Anthony Gwilliam Annual Lecture)
  Please note this session will take place at the H B Allen Centre, Keble College
  Professor Stuart Ward (Copenhagen)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - CANCELLED - Jewish images of Sultanic power in the 18th and 19th centuries in Palestine, Syria and Iraq
  Professor Orit Bashkin (University of Chicago)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Japan’s threat perception during the cold war: any lessons for today?
  Eitan Oren (King's College, London)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Monday 16 October 2023

• 12:00 - U.S. and European Legal Responses to Chinese Forced Labour
  Mr Aaron Halegua (Aaron Halegua PLLC)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 16:00 - Gross National Happiness (GNH)
  Professor Sabina Alikre (Director of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative), Tshoki Zangmo (OPHI)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty

Tuesday 17 October 2023

• 14:00 - Pakistan & India: Common Origins, Divergent Trajectories
  Also on Zoom - registration required - https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_snw0VJWPTc6720z8W0sCpw
  Pervez Hoodbhoy
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 14:30 - Open scholarship: fundamentals of open access
  Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - Artificial Intelligence - Hopes and Fears
  Dr Christopher Ganz (ETH, Zurich, Switzerland)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)
• 17:00 - HYBRID EVENT - Stories to Connect: The Reza Hosseini Memorial Lecture Series on the past and present of the Middle East
  Ghassan Salamé (Professor of International Relations at Sciences-Po)
• 17:00 - One Man Talking: Selected Essays of Shao Xunmei, 1929‒1939
  Dr Paul Bevan (University of Oxford), Dr Susan Daruvala (University of Cambridge)
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China

Wednesday 18 October 2023

• 12:00 - Xi Jinping: The Hidden Agendas of China's Ruler for Life
  Dr Willy Lam (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
  China Centre talks
• 14:00 - Empire & Exile
  Amita Mistry (Oxford), Julie Partsch (University of Oxford)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 17:00 - Beyond Self Interest: Why the Market Rewards Those Who Reject It
  Prof Krzysztof Pelc (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Recognising Refugees: Book discussion on IOM Unbound? Obligations and Accountability of the International Organization for Migration in an Era of Expansion
  Various Speakers
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 18:00 - Inevitable decline or renovation of Liberal International Order
  Please enter the building via Jowett Walk (attendees will be let in from 5.45). The talk will be followed by a reception in the Main Hall at QEH.
  Vittorio Emanuele (Parsi)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series

Thursday 19 October 2023

• 17:15 - ‘The Warwick Research Collective: Conversation and Reflections on World Literature’
  Sharae Deckard (University College Dublin), Pablo Mukherjee (University of Oxford)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar
• 17:30 - Lecture 4: ‘The Satisfaction of the yazata’ and ‘The Blessing of the ratus’: On the Zoroastrian Long Liturgies
  Professor Alberto Cantera (Freie Universität Berlin)
  9th Ratanbai Katrak Lectures

Friday 20 October 2023

• 16:00 - Post-Imperial Possibilities: Eurasia, Eurafrica, Afroasia
  Professor Jane Burbank and Professor Fred Cooper (NYU)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Arabic Literature in a Posthuman Age
  Dr Teresa Pepe (University of Oslo, Norway)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The Buddhist Body of the King: Ritual practices of consecration in medieval Japan
  Prof. Lucia Dolce (SOAS)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Monday 23 October 2023

• 15:00 - Tata: The Global Corporation That Built Indian Capitalism
  Mircea Raianu (The University of Maryland)
  Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire

Tuesday 24 October 2023

• 14:00 - Limitations on fundamental freedoms in Sri Lanka: majoritarian influence of constitutional practice
  Gehan Gunatilleke (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Rising Powers and the Politics of Status: China and India in the Liberal International Order
  Rohan Mukherjee (LSE)
• 17:00 - WRRS AND MENA POLITICS JOINT EVENT - Women and electoral politics in Iran and Turkey: Undemocratic structures and feminist resistance
  Mona Tajali, Associate Professor (Agnes Scott College)
  MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars

Wednesday 25 October 2023

• 13:00 - The use of new technologies in immigration and asylum governance: implications for human rights
  Dr Derya Ozkul (Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford), Professor Lorna McGregor (University of Essex), Dr Petra Molnar (York University, Canada)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 16:30 - The Ethics of Countering Disinformation: Navigating Normative Ideals in the Age of Fake News
  The talk will be followed by a reception in the Main Hall
  Alicia Fjällhed (Department of Strategic Communication, Lund University)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series
• 17:00 - Fulfulde as a Language of Religious Expression in the Islamic Religious Culture of West Africa
  Prof Louis Brenner (SOAS)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 26 October 2023

• 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
• 17:00 - Spectres of Progress in a Northeast Asian Borderland
  Dr Ed Pulford (The University of Manchester)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:30 - Lecture 5: Ritual and Revelation: The Complex Liturgies Based on the Visperad Time
  Professor Alberto Cantera (Freie Universität Berlin)
  9th Ratanbai Katrak Lectures

Friday 27 October 2023

• 16:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Moritz Mihatsch (Cambridge)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The World is not a Place of Dwelling: Spiritual Creativity in the Arts of Contemporary Islam
  Professor Noah Saloman (Irfan and Noreen Galaria Research Chair and Associate Professor in Islamic Studies, Department of Religious Studies, University of Virginia)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Saturday 28 October 2023

• 14:00 - Rethinking Colonialism: The Southern Sudanese Liberation Struggle and the Challenge to Decolonisation
  Dr Yaniv Voller (School of Politics and International Relations, Keynes College, University of Kent), Dr Richard Barltrop (Trustee, The Sudanese Programme), Mr Elhag Paul (Journalist and Activist)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series

Tuesday 31 October 2023

• 12:30 - Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar: ‘ Bernard Picart, the Image about Religion, and the Production of a New Truth Social’
  Dr Matthew Craske (Oxford Brookes)
  Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar
• 14:00 - Rising power, precarious citizens: Mobility and democracy in India after 1989
  Indrajit Roy (QEH, Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Sheikh Zayed Book Award Lecture Identity and history: The story of Ibn Tulun's demolished City
  Reem Bassiouney (The American University of Cairo)
  Middle East Centre Tuesday Book Launch (Book Talk)
• 17:00 - Nobel Peace Laureate in Oxford, Juan Manuel Santos Book Launch 'The Battle against Poverty, Colombia: A Case of Leadership’
  Juan Manuel Santos (Former President of Colombia and Nobel Peace Laureate), Dasho Tshering Tobgay (Former Prime Minister of Bhutan), Professor Sabina Alikre (Director of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative)

Wednesday 1 November 2023

• 14:00 - International Law, Humanitarianism, and Colonial Violence
  Boyd van Dijk (University of Oxford), Ian Caistor-Parker (Warwick University)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 17:00 - The Significance of the Dome in Islamic Architecture
  Prof Robert Hillenbrand (University of Edinburgh)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Book Launch: Courtly Mediators: Transcultural Objects between Renaissance Italy and the Islamic World
  Leah Clark (Kellogg College, Oxford)
• 17:00 - Book launch: Time and Power in Azraq Refugee Camp
  Dr Melissa Gatter (University of Sussex)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 18:15 - Chileans of the North Film Screening by SolidariTee, Oxford University's Filmmaking Foundation and Oxford Sanctuary Community
  Various Speakers

Thursday 2 November 2023

• 14:30 - Open scholarship: logistics of open scholarship
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - Book talk: Factional-Ideological Conflicts in Chinese Politics: To the Left or to the Right?
  Dr Olivia Cheung (SOAS)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:15 - ‘Broken records: researching Caribbean Women Writers of the mid-twentieth century’
  Professor Alison Donnell (University of East Anglia)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar
• 17:30 - Lecture 6: Turning the Tables: From the daēnā to the Dēnkard
  Professor Alberto Cantera (Freie Universität Berlin)
  9th Ratanbai Katrak Lectures

Friday 3 November 2023

• 16:00 - The British Gunpowder Industry and the Making of the Global Firearm Frontier, 1600-1900
  Dr Nicholas Radburn (Lancaster)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Zanzibar's Liberation between the "Global 60s" and Local Politics
  Dr Amal Ghazal (Doha Institute, Qatar)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Quo Vadis ODID? Climate change, growth, and the future of development
  Various Speakers
  Climate Change and the Challenges of Development

Monday 6 November 2023

• 15:00 - Malabar's Golden Trail: From the Indian Ocean to the Global Economy
  Nisha Mathew ((Mahindra University))
  Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire
• 16:00 - Belonging in the Digital World: A Conceptual Framework and a Systematic Review of the inter-generational impact of Social Media on ‘Belonging’ in Adolescents and Older Adults
  Kim Samuel (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (Visiting Scholar), Oxford), Dr Prenika Anand (University of Oxford)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty

Tuesday 7 November 2023

• 14:00 - Majoritarian nationalisms and religion in South Asia
  Katharine Adeney (University of Nottingham)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 15:00 - Open scholarship: your thesis, copyright and ORA
  Thomas Mitchell (Bodleian Libraries), David Watson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - The Past, Present, and Future of Earthquake Risk in Asia
  Prof Richard Walker (University of Oxford)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)
• 17:00 - CANCELLED DUE TO TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS - ‘Colonizing Palestine: the Zionist Left and the Making of the Palestinian Nakba’
  TBA
  Middle East Centre Tuesday Book Launch (Book Talk)

Wednesday 8 November 2023

• 17:00 - Power, Knowledge, and the Illusion of Control: Western Counterinsurgency in the Muslim World 1954-2014
  Dr Christian Tripodi (King's College London)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - SEMINAR POSTPONED - DATE TBC | Beyond Livelihoods: A Protracted Displacement Economy Approach
  Professor Anne-Meike Fechter (University of Sussex), Michael Collyer (University of Sussex), Dr Tahir Zaman (University of Sussex), Dr Ali Ali (University of Sussex)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The Cultural Revolution in a Rural County of China
  Professor Dong Guoqiang (Fudan University)

Thursday 9 November 2023

• 17:00 - Making Peace with the Devil: The Problem of Ending Just Wars
  Dr Elisabeth Forster (University of Southampton), Dr Isaac Taylor (Stockholm University)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 10 November 2023

• 16:00 - Libya’s Transition to Independence: Challenging the Paradigm of Competition between Italians and Tripolitanians
  Professor Antonio Morone (Pavia)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Floating Weeds: Water Hyacinth and the Egyptian Anthropocene
  Professor Pascal Menoret (Center for Economic, Legal, and Social Studies and Documentation (Cairo); Brandeis University (Waltham, MA)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Saturday 11 November 2023

• 09:00 - Holy Women of the East and West
  Prof Sebastian Brock (Retired Reader in Syriac Studies at the Oriental Institute and currently a Professorial Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford), Cressida Marcus, Dr. Paula Clifford

Monday 13 November 2023

• 14:00 - Open scholarship: forum of open scholarship
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - Post Taiwan New Cinema Era: The Auteurs and the Industry
  Dr Chen Pin-chuan (Taipei Representative Office, UK)
  China Studies Seminar series

Tuesday 14 November 2023

• 14:00 - An Emotional History of India in the Second World War
  Gupta Diya (City, University of London)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Deviant women: citizenship, political participation, and incarceration of the secular left in post-revolutionary Iran (1979-1990)
  Rosa Rahimi (University of Oxford, Magdalene College)
  MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars
• 17:00 - The Muslim Difference: Defining the Line between Believers and Unbelievers from Early Islam to the Present (Youshaa Patel)
  Prof. Youshaa Patel (Lafayette College)

Wednesday 15 November 2023

• 14:00 - Histories of Science and Technology
  Alice Naisbitt (University of Manchester), Gabriella Rago (University of Turin)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 16:00 - Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture 2023 | Discrimination and Delegation: Explaining State Responses to Refugees
  Dr Lamis E Abdelaaty (Syracuse University)
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures
• 17:00 - Green Industrialization: Evidence from and for Muslim Societies
  Dr Amir Lebdioui (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - ‘Once We Were Slaves: The Extraordinary Story of a Multiracial Jewish Family'
  Professor Laura Arnold Leibman (Reed College)
  Modern Jewish Thought Seminar

Thursday 16 November 2023

• 17:15 - ‘Arcadia in the Tropics: Indigenous Identities and the Palimpsest of Rome’
  Stefano Cracolici (Durham)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Friday 17 November 2023

• 16:00 - Slavery and Industrialization
  Professor Maxine Berg (Warwick), Professor Patricia Hudson FBA
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Single Motherhood, Celebrities, and Popular Culture in Egypt
  Dr Hanan Hammad (Professor of History and Chair of Women & Gender Studies at Texas Christian University)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 20 November 2023

• 15:00 - Where is Asia in the History of Early Modern Capitalism?
  Georgio Reillo & Mike O'Sullivan (European University Institute)
  Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire
• 16:00 - Poverty and human development challenges in Arab countries
  Please book to attend in person.
  Dr Khalid Abu-Ismail (ESCWA)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 17:00 - Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture 2023 | Who Gets Believed? A conversation with Dina Nayeri
  Dina Nayeri (University of St Andrews)
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures

Tuesday 21 November 2023

• 11:30 - 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
• 14:00 - Migration, Caste, and the Figure of the 'Coolie' in Indian Diplomatic History
  Kalathmika Natarajan (University of Exeter)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The use of Behavioural Science Models to shift diets for Health and Climate
  Dr Cother Hajat (Director, Real World Health; Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)
• 17:00 - Book Launch: A celebration to mark the publication of The Definitive Zoroastrian Critique of Islam Chapters 11-12 of the Škand Gumānīg-Wizār by Mardānfarrox son of Ohrmazddād Translated Texts for Historians Volume 83
  DAME AVERIL CAMERON (Former Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine History & Former Warden, Keble College, Oxford), Prof Nicolai Sinai (Pembroke College), Yuhan Vevaina, Professor Christian Sahner (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 22 November 2023

• 12:00 - Trustworthiness as Reputation in International Cooperation-building: Implications for US–China Relations
  Professor Shiping Tang (Fudan University)
  China Centre talks
• 14:00 - Histories of Student Movements, Women's Resistance & Transnational Solidarities
  Dolf Neuhaus (Independent), Réka Krizmanics (Bielefeld University)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 16:30 - BOOK LAUNCH: Controlling the Capital: Political Dominance in the Urbanizing World (Oxford University Press)
  Professor Tom Goodfellow (University of Sheffield), Dr David Jackman (Oxford Department of International Development)
• 17:00 - Can international law make a difference in time of war?
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Sir Christopher Greenwood (University of Cambridge)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Refugee Protection and AAA and others (2023-4) | Panel 1: International Refugee Law and Safe Third Countries
  Prof Cathryn Costello (University College Dublin), Raza Husain KC (Matrix Chambers), Dr Madeline Garlick (UNHCR)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 23 November 2023

• 14:00 - Open scholarship: UKRI open access policy briefing
  Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), David Watson (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - Locust Control in Late Imperial China
  Dr Desmond Cheung (SOAS)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 24 November 2023

• 16:00 - Capitalism and Empire: Europe's Hinterlands and its Oceanic Empires
  Professor Richard Drayton (KCL)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - What have the Arab Uprisings done to “Contemporary Arab Thought”?
  Professor Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab (Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Qatar)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The Path to a New Humanitarian World Order: Upholding Human Dignity and Climate Integrity
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  HRH Prince El Hassan Bin Talal
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies - Events

Monday 27 November 2023

• 12:00 - The Dragon Roars Back: Transformational Leaders and Dynamics of Chinese Foreign Policy
  Professor Suisheng Zhao (University of Denver)
  China Centre talks
• 17:00 - Modern Arab Kingship – Remaking the Ottoman Political Order in the Interwar Middle East
  Adam Mestyan (Duke University)
  Middle East Centre Tuesday Book Launch (Book Talk)

Tuesday 28 November 2023

• 11:00 - Lab Fellowship Information Session & Coffee Morning
  TBA
• 12:00 - The Politics of Promotion and Survival in China's Foreign Affairs System
  Dr Tyler Jost (Brown University)
  China Centre talks
• 14:00 - Rethinking urban resistance as sites for rebuilding differential solidarities
  Papia Sen Gupta (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Open scholarship: copyright the card game
  Chris Morrison (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - Gao Xingjian’s Bilingual Experimentation on the World Stage: Encounters with Translation
  Kate Costello (University of Oxford)
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China

Wednesday 29 November 2023

• 10:00 - Open scholarship: UKRI open access policy briefing
  Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), David Watson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 16:30 - Moldova's Foreign Policy in a Shifting Geopolitical Landscape
  The speaker will join via Zoom.
  Dorin Recean (Prime Minister of the Republic of Moldova)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series
• 17:00 - Refugee Protection and AAA and others (2023-4) | Panel 2: Borders, Racialisation, and Refugee Protection in Rwanda
  Michael Collyer (University of Sussex), Dr Frank Habineza MP (Member of Rwandan Parliament 2018-2023 and Founding President of the Democratic Green Party of Rwanda), Dr Felix Ndahinda (Researcher and Consultant), Dr Uttara Shahani (University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 30 November 2023

• 17:00 - Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders
  This seminar will be held on Thursday, 30 November
  Prof Ayse Zarakol (University of Cambridge)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:15 - ‘Digital Marechera’
  Dr Tinashe Mushakavanhu (St Anne’s College, Oxford)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar
• 17:30 - Tulkus, Titles, Disagreements — Succession by Reincarnation in Tibetan Societies
  Prof Jim Rheingans (University of Vienna)
  Annual Aris Lecture

Friday 1 December 2023

• 16:00 - The Offstage Storm? Decolonization and the Politics of Democracy in Post-war Western Europe
  Professor Martin Conway (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Reconsidering the 60s generation in the Arab world and beyond
  Professor Yoav di Capua (The University of Texas at Austin)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 4 December 2023

• 13:30 - Can the All-in-One App be Replicated?
  Professor David Gann (University of Oxford), Professor Jocelyn Alexander (University of Oxford), Professor Xiaolan Fu (University of Oxford)
• 14:00 - Mapping the City of the Gods: Bangkok, Ethnicity, and the Galactic Polity 
  Dr. Justin McDaniel
  Yin-Cheng Distinguished Lecture Series

Tuesday 5 December 2023

• 09:00 - Crossing Ancient Sacred Landscapes: Contacts and Continuities in the Ancient Desert Cults and Beliefs of Northern Arabia and the Arid Southern Levant
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 12 December 2023

• 10:30 - Open scholarship: fundamentals of open access
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Thursday 11 January 2024

• 14:30 - Open scholarship: logistics of open scholarship
  Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Monday 15 January 2024

• 15:00 - An Environmental History of the Indian Ocean
  Sujit Sivasundaram (Cambridge University)
  Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire
• 17:00 - Considering the Political Options in Gaza After Three Months of War
  Professor Walter Armbrust (St Antony’s College), Dr Maryam Alemzadeh (St Antony's College, University of Oxford), Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, Oxford), Raihan Ismail (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
• 17:00 - US–China Competition: Risks without Rewards?
  Professor Ashley J. Tellis (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)
  China Centre talks

Tuesday 16 January 2024

• 14:00 - Thirty seconds at Quetta: Time and disaster on the North-West Frontier, 1935
  Dan Haines (UCL)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 17 January 2024

• 17:00 - Beyond Livelihoods: A Protracted Displacement Economy Approach
  Michael Collyer (University of Sussex), Dr Tahir Zaman (University of Sussex), Dr Ali Ali (University of Sussex), Dr Ayub Jan (University of Peshawar), Dr Ceri Oeppen (University of Sussex)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Civilian Casualties in War
  Professor Neta Crawford (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 18 January 2024

• 17:00 - Xi Jinping and Time
  Dr Jean Christopher (Chris) Mittelstaedt (University of Oxford)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 19 January 2024

• 13:00 - The Vicissitudes of the Image of the Soviet Union among the Chinese Public during the 1950s
  Presentation in Mandarin
  Professor Wang Zihui (Northwest University)
  Mandarin Forum
• 14:00 - Free-Form: Unpacking the Taiwan Election
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group (OxCRG)
• 14:00 - Reading Group: Angelo Zottoli’s Cursus Litteraturae Sinicae
  N/A
  Greco-Roman and East-Asian Classics events (Janus Project)
• 16:00 - Indigenous Rights in Settler Colonies
  Professor Saliha Belmessous (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 22 January 2024

• 17:00 - Israeli Public Opinion and Political Options after 7 October
  Professor Yuli Tamir (Beit Berl College)
• 17:00 - Pure and True: the Everyday Politics of Ethnicity for China’s Hui Muslims
  Dr David Stroup (University of Manchester)
  China Studies Seminar series

Tuesday 23 January 2024

• 14:00 - The Rājā Yogī through the ages: Ascetic Sovereignty in India
  Jim Mallinson (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Is The World Making Progress in Malaria Control?
  Professor Kevin Marsh (University of Oxford)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)

Wednesday 24 January 2024

• 15:30 - Histories of Immigration, Emigration & Belonging
  Joshua Lourence (University of Hawai'i), Luke Spyropoulos (University of London, Birkbeck)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 17:00 - The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Story of Two Translators Between Qing China and the British Empire
  Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Global History events
• 17:00 - Refugee Protection and AAA and others (2023-4) | Panel 3: Enabling Refoulement? The UK-Rwanda Agreement and Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
  Professor Jonathan Portes (King's College London), Zoe Bantleman (Immigration Law Practitioners' Association), Dr Catherine Briddick (University of Oxford), Sile Reynolds (Freedom from Torture), Dr Nicola Palmer (King's College London)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Khilafat and the Pan-Islamic Imagination
  Professor Faisal Devji (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 25 January 2024

• 14:00 - Open scholarship: UKRI open access policy briefing
  Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), David Watson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - Post-Election Analysis of Taiwan’s 2024 Elections
  Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford), Dr Monique Chu (University of Southampton), Dr Michael Reilly (University of Nottingham)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:00 - Film Screening and Discussion: SPACES OF EXCEPTION dir. Matt Peterson and Malek Rasamny, 2019 United States/Lebanon
  Malek Rasamny (Documentary Filmmaker)
• 17:15 - Writing intergenerational spaces in contemporary British Chinese poetry
  Alex Tickell (Open University), Jennifer Wong (independent)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Friday 26 January 2024

• 14:00 - People’s Revolution? Coercive Revolution?
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group (OxCRG)
• 14:00 - Reading Group: Angelo Zottoli’s Cursus Litteraturae Sinicae
  N/A
  Greco-Roman and East-Asian Classics events (Janus Project)
• 16:00 - Post-War Economic Asianism? China, India and the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East, c. 1947-1950
  Dr Yui Chim Lo (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 16:00 - How an Embassy contributes to Science Diplomacy
  Dr. Minh-Hà PHAM (Counsellor for Science and Technology at French Embassy in the United Kingdom)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series

Monday 29 January 2024

• 15:00 - "A Sea of Wealth": Sayyid Sa'id bin Sultan, the Omani Empire, and the Making of an Oceanic Marketplace
  Nicholas P. Roberts (Norwich University)
  Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire
• 17:00 - The Settler Movement, Political Impasses, and Beyond
  Prof Hagar Kotef (SOAS University of London)

Tuesday 30 January 2024

• 14:00 - An Anthropology of 'Sovereignty'. New Land Markets, an Entrepreneurial State and the Aspirations of a ‘Criminal Caste’ in Gurgaon, Haryana
  Sanjay Srivastava (SOAS)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - How can genetics and breeding help feed 10 billion people?
  Professor Cristobel Uauy (John Innes Institute)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)

Wednesday 31 January 2024

• 17:00 - Displacement from Conflict: Old Realities, New Protections?
  Dr Ruvi Ziegler (University of Reading )
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Medieval Syria and the Onset of the Crusades: The Political World of Bilad al-Sham 1050-1128
  Dr James WIlson (University of Konstanz)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 1 February 2024

• 13:00 - On the Zimbabwean post-colony post-Mugabe: the politics and poetics of social media comedy
  Rodwell Makombe (North West University, British Academy Visiting Fellow)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar
• 14:30 - Open scholarship: foundations of copyright for researchers
  Chris Morrison (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - How to Tell a Sensitive History: Interviews with Chinese International Communist Volunteers in Burma
  Dr Ning Zhang (University of Oxford)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 2 February 2024

• 13:00 - Democracy, Nationalism and Revolution: The Relationships between Revolutionists and the Powers during China’s National Protection War (1915‒1916)
  Mandarin presentation
  Professor Honglei Cheng (Central China Normal University)
  Mandarin Forum
• 14:00 - Mao and Mao’s Legacy
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group (OxCRG)
• 14:00 - Reading Group: Angelo Zottoli’s Cursus Litteraturae Sinicae
  TBA
  Greco-Roman and East-Asian Classics events (Janus Project)
• 16:00 - Lever Brothers' Plantations in the Pacific Islands, 1895-1942
  Dr Hohee Cho (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Saturday 3 February 2024

• 10:30 - Icons: a Way of Truly Seeing
  Joanna Tulloch, Andrew Williams, Revd Dr Dobromir Dimitrov

Monday 5 February 2024

• 12:00 - Life Above All Else: Foucault, China and Mutations of the Biopolitical
  Dr Christian Sorace (University of Cambridge)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:00 - Genocide and Accountability in Gaza: The Limits and Potential of International Law
  Prof Noura Erakat (Rutgers)

Tuesday 6 February 2024

• 14:00 - Comparative understanding of climate change news audiences across eight countries
  Dr Waqas Ejaz (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The 'Strategic Partnership' between China and the European Union after Twenty Years: Drivers of Change and Continuity
  John Farnell (University of Oxford)
  China Centre talks

Wednesday 7 February 2024

• 14:00 - Race, Radicalism & Transoceanic Solidarities
  Maha Al-Haddad (University of Cambridge), Liza Hong (ANU)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 17:00 - Refugee History in the Gaza Strip
  Dr Anne Irfan (University College London)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Britain and the Muslim World: New Partnerships with Old Friends
  The Lord Ricketts of Shortlands
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies - Events
• 17:15 - ‘Indian Jugglers and West Indian Cricketers: James, Hazlitt, and Decolonization’s Anachronisms’
  Nasser Mufti (University of Illinois, Chicago)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar
• 17:30 - OSINT: Past, Present, and Future - session convened by the GGD AI Research Group
  Richard Tassell (former British Army Intelligence Analyst), Miro Bocchino (DPhil candidate, University of Oxford)

Thursday 8 February 2024

• 10:30 - Open scholarship: fundamentals of open access
  Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 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
• 16:30 - Online Diplomatic Participation Using Diplotainment: A Conceptual Exploration and Illustrative Analysis
  Dr Pawel Surowiec-Capell (University of Sheffield)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series

Friday 9 February 2024

• 14:00 - Sino-Japanese relations in the 21st century
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group (OxCRG)
• 14:00 - Reading Group: Angelo Zottoli’s Cursus Litteraturae Sinicae
  N/A
  Greco-Roman and East-Asian Classics events (Janus Project)
• 16:00 - Unravelling the Enigma of Penis Captivus in Zimbabwe: A historical Odyssey of a Medical Mystery and Urban legend
  Dr Kudakwashe Chitofiri (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Saturday 10 February 2024

• 10:00 - Sudanese Diaspora: Their Role in Sudan and South Sudan
  Professor Munzoul Abdalla Assal (Bergen University), Dr Eva Khair (University of Cambridge), Dr Salma Abdalla (Raad Peace Research Institute, Amman, Jordan), Iman Federico Awi (University of Leeds), Cllr Muna Adam (Labour Councillor for Royal Borough of Chelsea and Kensington, London; & Founder & Director of Shaman PR), Mr Elhag Paul (Activist, Journalist and Trustee, The Sudanese Programme), Ms Abiol Lual Deng (Political Scientist and International Relations expert), Mr Hashim Mohammed Ahmed (Civil Engineering Consultant; President of the Sudanese Engineers Trade Union in the UK & Ireland), Nadia Awad (Reporter, Radio Dabanga)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series
• 10:30 - The Role of Symbols in St Ephrem the Syrian and St Teresa of Avila
  Dr Sebastian Brock (University of Oxford), Julienne McLean

Monday 12 February 2024

• 15:00 - Fishing for the Past: Histories of Maritime Archaeology and Anthropology in the Indian Ocean
  Tamara Fernando (Stoney Brook University)
  Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire
• 17:00 - MEC X ESC Panel Discussion: The Debate on Recognition of Palestine
  Chris Doyle (CAABU), Alon Liel (Policy Working Group), Haizam Amirah Fernández (Elcano Royal Institute)
  MEC SEMINAR SERIES

Tuesday 13 February 2024

• 10:30 - Open scholarship: your thesis, copyright and ORA
  David Watson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Thomas Mitchell (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship
• 14:00 - The value of difference: Hindu Muslim encounters in Karachi, Pakistan
  Ammara Maqsood (UCL)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Coping with Crisis – rescuing academics in the 21st century
  Stephen Wordsworth (Executive Director, Council for At-Risk Academics (CARA))
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)
• 17:00 - The Gender Effect in Intra-Party Meritocracy (with Rabia Kutlu).
  Dr Tugba Bozcaga (EIS)
  JOINT Middle East Politics & Women's Rights Research Seminar

Wednesday 14 February 2024

• 10:00 - Evacuations as Displacement
  Scientia Professor Jane McAdam (University of New South Wales)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Muslim Justice Under Christian Rule: The Banū Rajā’ Qādīs of Norman Sicily
  Professor Jeremy Johns (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Freedom Undone: The Assault on Liberal Values and Institutions in Hong Kong
  Professor Michael C Davis (Wilson Center)
  China Centre talks

Thursday 15 February 2024

• 11:00 - The Tudeh, the ADP emigrants and the development of Azeri nationalism in the 1940s-1970s
  Dmitry Asinovsky
• 17:00 - China's Economic Diplomacy in an Age of 'Derisking'
  TALK CANCELLED
  Dr Lucie Qian Xia (University of Oxford)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:00 - Talking to Anyone for the Good of Everyone: Diplomacy in a Multipolar World
  HE Sayyid Badr Albusaidi (Foreign Minister of the Sultanate of Oman)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies - Events

Friday 16 February 2024

• 13:00 - Where is the Way out for the Sino-Indian Border Dispute?
  Mandarin presentation
  Professor Xinmin Sui (Zhengzhou University)
  Mandarin Forum
• 13:00 - Material and non-material aspects of flourishing:Findings from GNH Survey 2022
  Dasho Karma Ura (Centre for Bhutan Studies and GNH), Professor Sabina Alikre (Director of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative)
• 14:00 - Reading Group: Angelo Zottoli’s Cursus Litteraturae Sinicae
  N/A
  Greco-Roman and East-Asian Classics events (Janus Project)
• 16:00 - A Prophet Disarmed: Islam, Insult, and Injury
  Professor Faisal Devji (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 19 February 2024

• 17:00 - Is a Binational State Possible After 7 October?
  Professor Avi Shlaim (MEC Emeritus Fellow), Ilan Pappe (University of Exeter)

Tuesday 20 February 2024

• 12:05 - The Upside of US‒Chinese Strategic Competition: Institutional Balancing and Order Transition in the Asia Pacific
  Professor Kai He (Griffith University)
  China Centre talks
• 14:00 - Towards an Anthropology of Answers: The Lost Trajectories of the Racialized Colonial Domestic Workers in South India and Beyond.’
  Shalini Grover (LSE)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Sébastien Morlet’ (Sorbonne Université) - Textual plurality and manuscripts: the views of ancient commentators
  Sébastien Morlet (Sorbonne Université)
  Grinfield Lectures on The Septuagint 2024 | SÉBASTIEN MORLET - “The Plurality of the Biblical Text - Past and Present”
• 17:00 - Medium Format: Soil Photography, Ecological Mosaics, Dispossession
  Dr William Schaefer (Durham University)
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China

Wednesday 21 February 2024

• 14:00 - War, Anti-Fascism and Transnational Justice
  Adrian Pole (University of Chester), Lena Christophe (University of Vienna)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 17:00 - Book launch: Becoming Adult on the Move: Migration Journeys, Encounters and Life Transitions
  Various Speakers
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - From the Higher Objectives of Islamic Law to the Higher Objectives of Islamic Theology
  Dr Mohammed Gamal Abdelnour (SOAS, University of London)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Prof. Sébastien Morlet - The plurality inside the text: ancient views on the coherence or incoherence of the Biblical text
  Sébastien Morlet (Sorbonne Université)
  Grinfield Lectures on The Septuagint 2024 | SÉBASTIEN MORLET - “The Plurality of the Biblical Text - Past and Present”

Thursday 22 February 2024

• 11:00 - The World of Sogdian Art (5th-8th centuries CE)
  Michael Shenkar (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
• 16:00 - The Bible inside the plurality of texts: its relation to other texts according to ancient commentators
  Oriel College, Harris Lecture Theatre (please consult at Porter’s lodge to gain 4-digit code for access) (Early Biblical Interpretation Seminar)
  Sébastien Morlet (Sorbonne, Paris IV)
  Grinfield Lectures on The Septuagint 2024 | SÉBASTIEN MORLET - “The Plurality of the Biblical Text - Past and Present”
• 17:00 - China’s Mundane Revolution: Cheap Print, Vernacular Knowledge and the Rise of the Common Reader, 1894‒1954
  Professor Joan Judge (York University, Toronto)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:00 - Book Launch: The Oxford Handbook of Digital Diplomacy
  Corneliu Bjola (Oxford Department of International Development), Ilan Manor (Ben Gurion University of the Negev), Tom Fletcher, CMG (University of Oxford), Jennifer Cassidy (University of Oxford), Dr Pawel Surowiec-Capell (University of Sheffield)
• 17:15 - Literature, Democracy and Transitional Justice: Comparative World Perspectives: a book discussion
  Mohamed-Salah Omri (St John’s, Oxford), Philippe Roussin (CNRS, Paris), Anisa Daoudi (Translation Studies, Birmingham)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Friday 23 February 2024

• 14:00 - Chinese Christian Miracles and Exorcisms
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group (OxCRG)
• 14:00 - Reading Group: Angelo Zottoli’s Cursus Litteraturae Sinicae
  N/A
  Greco-Roman and East-Asian Classics events (Janus Project)
• 16:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  TBA
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 16:30 - Rethinking Climate Change and Migration: From Victims to Agents of Change
  Raul Hinojosa-Ojeda (University of California, Los Angeles), Yvonne Su (York University)
• 16:30 - Noriyuki Ishibashi | The Meaning and Usage of the Modifying Clause (Noun Clause) with the Nouns, ことkoto' and 'のno'
  Noriyuki Ishibashi

Monday 26 February 2024

• 15:00 - Persianate Luxury: The Tangible and Intangible Legacy of the Indian Ocean Wine Trade
  Peter Good (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
  Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire
• 17:00 - Rebuilding From the Rubble Yet Again: Whither the Fourth Phase of Palestinian Collective Action?
  Prof Beshara Doumani (Brown University)
• 18:00 - The New Era of Digital Diplomacy: The Future of AI and the Metaverse for International Relations
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable online. Those attending in-person should use the entrance on Jowett Walk, which will be open from 17:50-18:00. Those attending online should email mscggd-admin@qeh.ox.ac.uk for the meeting link.
  Dr. Martin Waehlisch (United Nations Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series

Tuesday 27 February 2024

• 11:30 - 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
• 14:00 - Temporary Exhibits: The Cultural Politics of South Asian ‘Folk’ Performances in Contemporary Fairs and Festivals
  Priyanka Basu (Kings College London)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Revolutionary Becomings: Documentary Media in Twentieth-Century China
  Professor Ying Qian (Columbia University)
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China

Wednesday 28 February 2024

• 17:00 - The First Friday Sermons of Islam as a Nexus of Piety, Ethics, and Politics
  Professor Tahera Qutbuddin (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 29 February 2024

• 14:30 - Open scholarship: logistics of open scholarship
  Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 16:00 - Global and Imperial History graduate student research presentations
  Various Speakers
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Engaging with Alterity: The Chinese Style of Gardening in 18th-century Britain
  Dr Yue Zhuang (University of Exeter)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:00 - Colonizing Palestine: the Zionist Left and the Making of the Palestinian Nakba’
  Dr. Areej Sabbagh-Khoury (Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Friday 1 March 2024

• 13:00 - Shanghai A-Fei: Fashionable Rebels and Discourse Showdown in Socialist China
  Mandarin presentation
  Professor Yajuan Liu (East China Normal University)
  Mandarin Forum
• 14:00 - Historical Anthropology and the South China School
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group (OxCRG)
• 14:00 - Reading Group: Angelo Zottoli’s Cursus Litteraturae Sinicae
  N/A
  Greco-Roman and East-Asian Classics events (Janus Project)
• 16:00 - Global and Imperial History graduate student research presentations
  Various Speakers
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 4 March 2024

• 12:00 - Wild Ride: A Short History of the Opening and Closing of the Chinese Economy
  Anne Stevenson-Yang (J Capital Research USA LLC)
  China Centre talks
• 12:30 - Webs of oppression’ in everyday organizing in Palestine: An Intersectional Feminist Analysis
  Lunch will be provided for this session
  Amal W Nazzal (Assistant Professor at Birzeit University, Palestine)
  MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars
• 17:00 - After Gaza: The Promise and Peril of Pax Americana
  Marwan Bishara (Al Jazeera)
• 17:00 - Inside the Global Supply Chain: Transnational Migrant Labour, Commodity Circulation and Digitised Economies across Taiwan
  Dr Beatrice Zani (French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS))
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:30 - Sources for the Study of South Asian Islam: Introducing the K A Nizami Collection
  Professor Bruce B Laurence (Duke University)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies - Events

Tuesday 5 March 2024

• 17:00 - MEC BOOK TALK - Revolution Squared: Tahrir, Political Possibilities, and Counterrevolution in Egypt
  Prof. Atef Said (University of Illinois at Chicago)

Wednesday 6 March 2024

• 17:00 - Written in the Margins – Articulating Islam in Early Modern China
  Dr Dror Weil (University of Cambridge)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Protection of the right to nationality: Resolution No. 02/23 of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights / Protección del derecho a la nacionalidad: Resolución No. 02/23 de la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos
  Seminar available in both English and Spanish
  Commissioner Andrea Pochak (IACHR), Dr Laura van Waas (Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The British China Story
  Professor Kerry Brown (King's College London)
  China Centre talks

Thursday 7 March 2024

• 09:30 - Open scholarship: copyright the card game
  Chris Morrison (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 11:00 - Book Launch: Afghanistan Dispossessed: Women, Culture and the Taliban
  Dr Raziza Sultanova (University of Oxford)
• 17:15 - ‘“The lost unity of social life”: Law and Literature in the World-System’ This paper begins the theoretical work of developing a materialist and worldly approach to ‘Law and Literature.’
  Philip Kaisary (Carleton University, Canada)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Friday 8 March 2024

• 14:00 - Reading Group: Angelo Zottoli’s Cursus Litteraturae Sinicae
  N/A
  Greco-Roman and East-Asian Classics events (Janus Project)
• 16:00 - Global and Imperial History graduate student research presentations
  Various Speakers
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Tuesday 12 March 2024

• 16:00 - Film showing: No city for women - Gurgaon | Millennium City | 2023
  TBA

Thursday 14 March 2024

• 14:00 - Open scholarship: forum of open scholarship
  Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Tuesday 19 March 2024

• 10:30 - Open scholarship: fundamentals of open access
  Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Monday 8 April 2024

• 12:00 - Thomas Schelling, the United States, and China’s Rise
  Professor Thomas J. Christensen (Columbia University)
  China Centre talks

Saturday 20 April 2024

• 09:00 - Conference: Buddhism and Food Ethics
  Call for papers is open; deadline for submissions: 18:00, 1 March 2024
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 23 April 2024

• 14:00 - Networked Bollywood: How Star Power Globalized Hindi Cinema
  Swapnil Rai (University of Michigan)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 15:00 - Chokepoints: Temporalities of Navigation in the Red Sea
  Jatin Dua (University of Michigan)
  Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire
• 17:00 - Southeast Asia between the Superpowers: Who is Where and Why?
  Professor Yuen Foong Khong (National University of Singapore)
  China Centre talks
• 17:00 - Worrying about China: Storytelling, Humanitarian Intervention, and the Global Circulation of Independent Chinese Documentary
  Dr Luke Robinson (University of Sussex)
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China

Wednesday 24 April 2024

• 14:00 - 2024 Oxford University of Sanctuary Fair
  Various Speakers
• 17:00 - Crisis in the Sahel: Causes and Consequences for Africa, Europe and the Muslim World
  Dr Jonathan Guiffard (Institute Montaigne)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 25 April 2024

• 14:30 - Open scholarship: logistics of open scholarship
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - Buddhists in the Print Culture of Republican China
  Dr Gregory Scott (University of Manchester)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:00 - Orienting the Global First Millennium: Iranosphere Perspectives
  Garth Fowden (Cambridge)
  After Rome and Further East Seminar
• 17:00 - Professor Garth Fowden (University of Cambridge) | Orienting the Global First Millennium: Iranosphere Perspectives
  Garth Fowden (Cambridge)

Friday 26 April 2024

• 10:00 - Workshop - “Domicide”: State violence and the destruction of home in the Middle East and China
  Ammar Azzouz, Alex Vasudevan, Jennifer Altehenger, Margaret Hillenbrand, Salwa Ismail, Farida Makar
  Oxford Centre for Global History events
• 13:00 - Migrant Approaches, Family Patterns and Social Integration: the Striving Teams' Family Migration in Contemporary China
  Mandarin presentation
  Professor Godfrey (Gaohui) Wu (Central South University, PR China)
  Mandarin Forum
• 14:00 - Christian scriptural and classical translation and transmission in Asia before the Jesuits
  Benjamin Sharkey (Oxford)
  Greco-Roman and East-Asian Classics events (Janus Project)
• 14:30 - Finding Onesimus: Historical Imagination, Reconstruction and Reception of Paul’s Letter to Philemon
  Prof Esau McCaulley (Wheaton College)
  New Testament Seminar

Monday 29 April 2024

• 17:00 - The United Nations and the Question of Palestine
  Change of venue: Now in the Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road (NOT MEC Boardroom at 68 Woodstock Road as originally planned) | Copies of Professor Imseis's book can be purchased direct from Cambridge University Press website, use IMSEIS23 at checkout for 20% discount.
  Dr Adri Imseis (Queen's University)
  MEC SEMINAR SERIES

Tuesday 30 April 2024

• 14:00 - "Politics and Persecution: Pashto, Pashtun and Pashtunistan" - Autobiography of Samad Khan Achakzai
  Ayaz Achakzai (Independent Public Policy Expert)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Climate Change News Audiences: Analysis of News Use and Attitudes
  Dr Waqas Ejaz (University of Oxford)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)
• 17:00 - 2024 George Rousseau lecture: Images of Jews' Economic Roles from the Enlightenment to the French Revolution
  Francesca Trivellato (IAS, Princeton)
  George Rousseau Lectures
• 17:00 - Unfulfilled Dreams: China’s 'Liberal' Communist Party Intellectuals’ Struggle for Democracy from the 1930s to the 2000s
  Dr Verna Yu (University of Oxford)
  China Centre talks
• 17:00 - Dr Anahita Arian (Cambridge/ONGC) Encounters in the Persianate World: The Safavid Diplomatic Envoy to Siam
  Anahita Arian
  TOSCCA/ONGC Seminar series

Wednesday 1 May 2024

• 10:00 - Open scholarship: introduction to open science framework at Oxford
  Neil Jeffries (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 12:00 - How Can Regulation Revive China’s Sagging Economy?
  Professor Angela Zhang (University of Hong Kong)
  China Centre talks
• 17:00 - Sufism in Al-Sanusi’s Theological Works
  Dr Tobias Andersson (Uppsala University)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Prof. Martin Shuster, North Carolina University, will be discussing his book How to Measure a World? A Philosophy of Judaism
  Prof Martin Shuster
  Modern Jewish Thought Seminar

Thursday 2 May 2024

• 17:00 - Chairman Mao’s Children: Generation and the Politics of Memory in China
  Professor Bin Xu (Emory University)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:00 - Re-Framing the Umayyad Empire: Pastoralists, Plague, and Peripheries
  Andrew Marsham (Cambridge)
  After Rome and Further East Seminar
• 17:15 - Autofiction and/as World Literature’
  Martha Swift (Oxford)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Friday 3 May 2024

• 11:00 - Open scholarship: foundations of copyright for researchers
  Chris Morrison (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 14:00 - Rabinder Singh: Human Rights Law in its Historical Context
  Lord Justice Rabinder Singh, Respondent: Professor Ben Ansell, Respondent: Dr Emma Mackinnon, Respondent: Professor Jan Eckel
  Oxford Centre for Global History events
• 14:00 - The Jesuits and Neo-Confucianism: A Comparative Philosophical Approach to Confucius Sinarum Philosophus
  Ross Moncrief (Oxford)
  Greco-Roman and East-Asian Classics events (Janus Project)
• 14:00 - Prof. Martin Goodman (Wolfson/OCHJS) “Herod and his many Wives”
  Professor Martin Goodman
  SEMINAR ON JEWISH HISTORY AND LITERATURE IN THE GRAECO-ROMAN PERIOD
• 16:30 - Luke Treadwell (AMES/ St Cross) | Coin Legends and Protocol Texts in the 70s/690s: Emblematic Identity and Monetization of Exchange in the Umayyad State
  Luke Treadwell (University of Oxford)

Monday 6 May 2024

• 15:00 - Cosmopolitan Graves: Thamboosamy Pillai and Legacy Making and Unmaking in British Malaya
  Julia Stephens (Rutgers University)
  Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire
• 17:00 - Keith Griffin Lecture: "Navigating a Radically Uncertain World"
  Professor Sir John Kay (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies - Events

Tuesday 7 May 2024

• 14:00 - Performing Sovereign Aspirations: Tamil Insurgency and Postwar Transition in Sri Lanka
  Bart Klem (Gothenburg University, Sweden)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Reflections on Tunisian Women’s Continued Fight for Respect, Dignity and Rights - Focus on Women in the Labour Movement
  Dr Heba El-Shazli (George Mason University)
  MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars
• 17:00 - Islam and Artificial Intelligence: Knowledge and Common Sense
  Dr Mazhar Ali Bari (Ghulam Bari Foundation and Cognovation), Dr Biliana Popova (Al Akhawayn University, Morocco)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)
• 17:00 - Aydogdy Kurbanov – Dehistan (South-West Turkmenistan) in the first half of the 1st Millennium CE
  Aydogdy Kurbanov (University of Lyon)
  TOSCCA/ONGC Seminar series

Wednesday 8 May 2024

• 17:00 - Humanitarian extractivism: the digital transformation past, present, future
  Professor Kristin Sandvik (University of Oslo)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Chinggis Khan’s Empire Restored? The Conquests of Tamerlane in a Mongol Perspective
  Professor Peter Jackson (Keele University)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - The Damascus Events Book Launch
  Book copies will be on sale at the discounted price of £20 - cash only please | Drinks reception will follow the book signing
  Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, Oxford)
  MEC SEMINAR SERIES

Thursday 9 May 2024

• 10:00 - Open scholarship: introduction to persistent identifiers
  Neil Jefferies (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 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
• 17:00 - Scents of China: A Modern History of Smell
  Dr Xuelei Huang (University of Edinburgh)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:00 - Medieval Arabic Literature: What Do You Know, and What Can You Do with It?
  Julia Bray (Oxford)
  After Rome and Further East Seminar

Friday 10 May 2024

• 14:00 - Plato’s and Zhuangzi’s shared argument against the view that only one thing exists
  Lea Cantor (Cambridge)
  Greco-Roman and East-Asian Classics events (Janus Project)
• 14:30 - Deification in Greek Philosophy and the New Testament
  James Bernard Murphy (Dartmouth)
  New Testament Seminar

Monday 13 May 2024

• 14:00 - Harnessing Technology and Financial Innovation to Serve the Global South
  Azman Mokhtar (Malaysia International Islamic Finance Centre), Prof Xiaolan Fu (Oxford TMCD)
  Technology and Management Centre for Development Talks
• 17:00 - Three Frontiers to one Boundary: The Making of the Ottoman-Iranian Boundary
  Please note change of venue to the MEC Boardroom (from the Investcorp Lecture Theatre)
  Professor Sabri Ates (Southern Methodist University)
  MEC SEMINAR SERIES

Tuesday 14 May 2024

• 09:00 - Oxford Migration Studies Society Conference: 'Transformation and Resilience'
  Seán Binder
• 09:30 - Periodizing Global History: What is Early Modernity? What is Modernity?
  Craig Clunas (Oxford; China), Faisal Devji (Oxford; Modern Islamic World), Azfar Moin (Texas; Mughals), Kiri Paramore (Cork; Japan/Confucianism), David Priestland (Oxford; Communist World), Joan-Pau Rubiés (Barcelona; Global Renaissance), Sadia Saeed (San Francisco; Historical Sociology), Alan Strathern (Oxford; Organiser)
  Oxford Centre for Global History events
• 10:30 - Open scholarship: fundamentals of open access
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship
• 14:00 - The nationalisation of rice. The postwar global crisis and the emergence of India’s national economy
  Jon Wilson (King's College London)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Dr. David Friedman (Cambridge/Darwin College) “Asinaeus and Anilaeus in Josephus’ Jewish Antiquities”
  Dr. David Friedman (Cambridge/Darwin College)
  SEMINAR ON JEWISH HISTORY AND LITERATURE IN THE GRAECO-ROMAN PERIOD
• 17:00 - Annual Zernov Lecture | Dr Sebastian Brock - The Ecumenical Journey of St Isaac the Syrian’s Writings
  Sebastian Brock
• 17:00 - Selbi Durdieva - ‘Hauntology, Inheritance, and Women’s Writing: Entangled Pasts in Turkmen Family Archives’
  Selbi Durdieva
  TOSCCA/ONGC Seminar series
• 17:00 - Landscape Paintings and Territorial Sovereignty in Socialist China
  Professor PANG Laikwan (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China

Wednesday 15 May 2024

• 10:00 - Open scholarship: preregistration and registered reports: what, why, and how
  Jackie Thompson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 10:00 - Solitude and Community in Contemporary Chinese Culture
  Various Speakers
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China
• 12:00 - Made in China: When US-China Interests Converged to Transform Global Trade
  Dr Elizabeth Ingleson (LSE)
  China Centre talks
• 17:00 - Film Screening and Discussion: Missing in Brooks County
  Jeff Bemiss (Co-Director, Missing in Brooks County)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Qaum, Mulk, Sultanat: Citizenship and National Belonging in Pakistan
  Ali Usman Qasmi (LUMS)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Prof. Yuval Jobani, Tel Aviv University, will be discussing his book The First Jewish
  Dr Yuval Jobani (Tel Aviv University)
  Modern Jewish Thought Seminar
• 17:00 - "New Infrastructure": Emerging Trends in Chinese Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America
  Margaret Myers (Inter-American Dialogue), Ángel Melguizo (ARGIA Green, Tech & Economics), Laura Trajber Waisbich (University of Oxford)
  Technology and Management Centre for Development Talks

Thursday 16 May 2024

• 15:00 - Islam in the Age of Post-Historical Reason
  Sohabe Mojaddidy (University of Oxford)
  Islamicate Intellectual History Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Navigating Geoeducational Dilemmas: Chinese Student Migration in Singapore
  Professor Zachary M. Howlett (YaleNUSCollege)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:00 - “Behold! Quraysh is praying behind Bakr!” Kharijite Rebellion and Bakri Tribalism from al-Jazira to Iran 7th-9th c.
  Hannah-Lena Hagemann (Hamburg)
  After Rome and Further East Seminar
• 17:15 - Journal editing in the changing marketplace: Postcolonial writing or world literature?
  THIS TALK HAS BEEN POSTPONED - NEW DATE TBC
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Janet Wilson (Northampton and editor-in-chief, Journal of Postcolonial Literature)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Friday 17 May 2024

• 14:00 - Greece as Mirror: Reassessing China’s Cultural Identity through Classical Scholarship in the Early 20th Century
  Kai Chen (Oxford)
  Greco-Roman and East-Asian Classics events (Janus Project)
• 14:30 - Wages from God in Matthew and Paul
  Zachary Wagner
  New Testament Seminar
• 16:00 - Just energy transition in the Amazon: contributions and interdisciplinary dialogue between engineering, and human and social sciences
  This event is in Portuguese and English with simultaneous translation. This is a hybrid event but if you are attending in person please register for the online event too and bring a phone and headphones, as you will need this to hear the translation for parts of the event!
  TBA
  Climate Change and the Challenges of Development

Monday 20 May 2024

• 15:00 - Itinerant Belonging: Gujarat’s Merchant Havelis and Occluded Histories of Indian Ocean Capitalism
  Ketaki Pant (University of Southern California)
  Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire
• 16:00 - “Frontier settlement” as Transnational Colonisation: The Thailand-Israel connection
  Matan Kaminer (Queen Mary University of London)
  Social Life of Work Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Paradiplomacy in Hard Times: Cooperation and Confrontation in Subnational US-China Relations
  Professor Kyle Jaros (University of Notre Dame)
  China Centre talks

Tuesday 21 May 2024

• 14:00 - “We are religious, patriotic, and self-sacrificial”: Baniya Power, Privilege, and Wealth Anxieties in India
  Ujithra Ponniah (Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Dr. Thomas Nelson (Wolfson) “(Re)constructing Tradition in the Hellenistic Jewish Epics by Philo and Theodotus”
  Dr. Thomas Nelson (Wolfson)
  SEMINAR ON JEWISH HISTORY AND LITERATURE IN THE GRAECO-ROMAN PERIOD
• 15:00 - Open scholarship: your thesis, copyright and ORA
  David Watson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Thomas Mitchell (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship
• 15:45 - 2024 McCandless Lecture
  Dr Derek C. Hatch (Howard Payne University)
• 17:00 - Ali Mirsepassi will be in conversation with Stephanie Cronin about his new book "The Loneliest Revolution: A Memoir of Solidarity and Struggle in Iran".
  Ali Mirsepassi (NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study)
  MEC SEMINAR SERIES
• 17:00 - Air Pollution in the 21st Century – Time for a New Approach
  Dr Gary Fuller (Imperial College, London)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)
• 17:00 - Sinologist, Traveller, Governor, Spy: The Lives and Legacies of Sir Cecil Clementi, 17th Governor of Hong Kong
  Graham Hutchings (University of Oxford, University of Nottingham)
  China Centre talks
• 17:00 - Dr Thomas Welsford (All Souls) An Armenian Liberal in Revolutionary Samarkand
  Dr Thomas Welsford (All Souls)
  TOSCCA/ONGC Seminar series

Wednesday 22 May 2024

• 17:00 - Displacement and Documentary Film: A Conversation with Marc Isaacs
  Associate Professor Marc Isaacs (University College London)
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures
• 17:00 - Post-Globalism and the Ulama: Contestation of Authority
  Professor Raihan Ismail (St Antony's College)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - If Hong Kong is really over
  Dr Kim Wah Chung
  China Centre talks

Thursday 23 May 2024

• 13:00 - The Battle of the Birds: William Colenso, Walter Buller, Witi Ihimaera, and the materiality of avian fables
  ***lunchtime seminar, English Faculty***
  Kaori Nagai (University of Kent)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar
• 17:00 - Captain of the Roving Bandits: Spoken drama and the culture of Rural Pacification in Japanese-occupied China
  Professor Jeremy E Taylor (University of Nottingham)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:00 - Connected “Pagans” from Medieval Ethiopia: Monumental and Artifactual Evidence
  Alebachew Belay (Debre Berhan University)
  After Rome and Further East Seminar

Friday 24 May 2024

• 13:00 - Governance of the Water Community in the South-central Region of the People's Republic of China
  Professor Yunxian Ren (Nanchang Hangkong University)
  Mandarin Forum
• 14:00 - The Latin Confucius. The Translation techniques of the Confucius Sinarum Philosophus (1687)
  Simone Mollea (Università di Torino), Elisa della Calce (Università di Torino)
  Greco-Roman and East-Asian Classics events (Janus Project)
• 14:30 - Jewish Hospitality as Counter-Cultural Masculinity in Luke and Acts
  Benjamin Isachsen (Balliol)
  New Testament Seminar

Monday 27 May 2024

• 17:00 - Chinese Businessmen and the Economic Roots of American Cold War Power, 1938‒1955
  Professor Judd Kinzley (University of Wisconsin-Maddison)
  China Studies Seminar series

Tuesday 28 May 2024

• 14:00 - Sebastian Kenny (Corpus Christi) “Language Contact in Ezekiel’s Exagoge: The Case for Pattern Replication”
  Sebastian Kenny (Corpus Christi)
  SEMINAR ON JEWISH HISTORY AND LITERATURE IN THE GRAECO-ROMAN PERIOD
• 14:00 - Deconstructing State and Identity in Pakistan
  Various Speakers
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Building Resilient Education Systems: Evidence from Large-Scale Randomized Trials in Five Countries
  Professor Noam Angrist (University of Oxford)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)
• 17:00 - Economic Diversification and Climate Change in the Middle East
  Associate Professor Dr Sarah Bush (University of Pennsylvania)
  Middle East Politics and WRRS joint series
• 17:00 - Dr Stefan Williamson Fa (ONGC) Connections and Dis/continuities in Contemporary Aşıq Practice in Georgia
  Stefan Williamson Fa:
  TOSCCA/ONGC Seminar series
• 17:00 - Uzbekistan: a roadmap to the future - Poverty reduction, cooperation and connectivity
  All guests are welcome to enjoy traditional Uzbek food after the seminar.
  Dr Obid Khakimov (Director of the Center for Economic Research and Reforms under the Administration of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan (CERR)), Professor Sabina Alkire (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative), Professor Adeel Malik (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 29 May 2024

• 17:00 - Book launch: The Politics of Crisis-Making: Forced Displacement and Cultures of Assistance in Lebanon
  Dr Estella Carpi (University College London)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Smugglers and States: Negotiating the Maghreb at its Margins
  Dr Max Gallien (University of Sussex)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 30 May 2024

• 15:00 - Revisiting Rashīd al-Dīn al-Hamadhānī's Theological Works
  Yusuf Chaudhary (University of Cambridge)
  Islamicate Intellectual History Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Detecting Irrigation and Desertification in the Middle East and North Africa Since the Medieval Period
  Louise Rayne (Newcastle University)
  After Rome and Further East Seminar

Friday 31 May 2024

• 14:00 - Daring translation and mistranslation: Stephen Weston and the Qianlong emperor’s poetry on chicken cups (with a note on Keats’s reception of Eastern and Western Classics)
  Justine Potts (Oxford)
  Greco-Roman and East-Asian Classics events (Janus Project)
• 14:30 - The Annunciation (PNTC 2/3)
  Prof Mark Wynn (Oxford)
  New Testament Seminar
• 17:00 - The Making of the Modern Muslim State: Islam and Governance in the Middle East and North Africa
  All welcome, no registration necessary, arrive early to secure your seat: Our MEC Boardroom in the Kirdar Building at 68 Woodstock Road has limited seating capacity.
  Malika Zeghal, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor in Contemporary Islamic Thought and Life (Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University)
  Contemporary Islamic Studies Programme

Monday 3 June 2024

• 15:00 - A Climate of State-Building in Equatorial Eastern Africa c.1840-1875
  Phillip Gooding (McGill University)
  Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire
• 17:00 - Sultan Azlan Shah Lecture: "Can International Law make a Difference in Time of War?"
  Sir Christopher Greenwood (University of Cambridge)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies - Events
• 17:00 - Documentary film screening: Antoine the Fortunate (WWI in the Ottoman Empire)
  Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford), Associate Professor Nefin Dinc (James Madison University)
  MEC SEMINAR SERIES

Tuesday 4 June 2024

• 11:30 - 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
• 14:00 - Dr. Rebekah van Zant-Clark (Oriel) “’New Exodus’ Typology and Supersessionism in 20th Century Isaiah Scholarship”
  Rebekah Van Sant-Clark (University of Oxford)
  SEMINAR ON JEWISH HISTORY AND LITERATURE IN THE GRAECO-ROMAN PERIOD
• 17:00 - Vali Kaleji: Iran’s Relations with the Republics of Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia in the First Period of Independence (1917-1921)
  Vali Kaleji
  TOSCCA/ONGC Seminar series

Wednesday 5 June 2024

• 17:00 - Skilled worker visas for refugees – a qualitative evaluation of the UK’s Displaced Talent Mobility Pilot
  Dr Olivier Sterck (University of Oxford), Marina Brizar (Talent Beyond Boundaries), Sarah Walder (Talent Beyond Boundaries)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The Fall of Kabul: Why It Happened and Why It Matters?
  Sir Laurie Bristow (Hughes Hall, Cambridge)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 6 June 2024

• 17:00 - Problematic Analogies: Diplomatic Exchange and the Discourse of Legitimacy in Early Medieval China
  Professor Lu Kou (Columbia University)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:00 - Charlemagne’s Jerusalem: Rhetoric, Exegesis and the Ninth-Century “Holy Land”
  Dan Reynolds (Birmingham)
  After Rome and Further East Seminar

Friday 7 June 2024

• 13:00 - The Way of the Sage: The Cultivation Efforts of Neo-Confucianists in the Song and Ming Dynasties
  Presentation in Mandarin
  Professor Hui Yin (Yuelu Academy of Hunan University)
  Mandarin Forum
• 14:00 - Latinizing Chinese and Sinicizing Latin: a joint examination of Angelo Zottoli’s translations of Tang poetry
  Cynthia Liu (Oxford), Xiaojing Miao (Oxford)
  Greco-Roman and East-Asian Classics events (Janus Project)
• 14:30 - Paul, Divestment, and Salvific Almsgiving
  Hunter Brown (Keble)
  New Testament Seminar

Monday 10 June 2024

• 16:00 - A Thousand Tiny Cuts: Mobility and Security across the Bangladesh-India Borderlands
  Dr Sahana Ghosh (National University of Singapore), Professor Ruben Andersson (University of Oxford), Professor David Gellner (School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford), Tasnia Nuran (Policy consultant and researcher)
• 17:00 - Competition in the Gray Zone: A Cross-analysis of Taiwan and the South China Sea
  Diren Doğan (Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University)
  China Studies Seminar series

Tuesday 11 June 2024

• 14:00 - Prof. Paul Michael Kurtz (Universiteit Gent) “Another View on Ancient Judaism: Catholic Scholarship in the German South, 1820–1880”
  Prof. Paul Michael Kurtz (Universiteit Gent)
  SEMINAR ON JEWISH HISTORY AND LITERATURE IN THE GRAECO-ROMAN PERIOD
• 14:30 - Open scholarship: logistics of open scholarship
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 15:00 - The Uses of 'Tafsira' in the Cambridge Library Aljamiado MS
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Fadoua El-Heziti (Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies)
  Islamicate Intellectual History Seminar Series
• 16:30 - Book Launch: Survival of the Greenest. Economic Transformation in a Climate-conscious World
  Dr Amir Lebdioui (University of Oxford), Ann Pettifor (Director of Policy Research in Macroeconomics (PRIME) and member of Jeremy Corbyn's new economic advisory committee), Luis Godoy Rueda (Open Society Foundation), Richard Kozul-Wright, Lee Harris (Financial Times)
• 17:00 - Dr Matthias Battis (ONGC) | Stalinabad 1930: Aleksandr Semenov and the convergence of scholarship and politics at the Tajik language congress
  Dr Matthias Battis (ONGC)
  TOSCCA/ONGC Seminar series

Wednesday 12 June 2024

• 10:00 - Approaching Raw Wounds: The Rhetoric of Trauma in Palestinian and Northern Irish Fiction Writing
  Various Speakers
• 13:00 - Climate change, Pollution and Multidimensional Poverty
  Professor Sabina Alikre (Director of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative), Laura Rival (University of Oxford), Raffaele Ippolito (University of Oxford), Sandra Aguilar (Universidad de los Andes), Sandra Aguilar (Universidad de los Andes)
• 17:00 - Iran’s Revolutionary Guards: A History
  Professor Maryam Alemzadeh (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 13 June 2024

• 13:30 - Oxford Sanctuary Fair 2024
  Various Speakers
• 15:00 - Open scholarship: preregistration and registered reports: what, why, and how
  Jackie Thompson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 15:00 - Ibn al-Qayyim’s Approach to Critiquing Maghāzī in Zād al-Maʿād
  Oumama Emad Hamasha (Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies)
  Islamicate Intellectual History Seminar Series
• 15:00 - Yasuní in Oxford: Linking Local and Global Struggles Against Extractivism
  Various Speakers
  Climate Change and the Challenges of Development
• 17:00 - The 46th Annual George Antonius Memorial Lecture
  Professor Amaney Jamal (Princeton University)
• 17:00 - Justinian Between East and West
  Peter Sarris (Cambridge)
  After Rome and Further East Seminar
• 17:00 - Professor Peter Sarris (University of Cambridge) | JUSTINIAN BETWEEN EAST AND WEST
  Peter Sarris (University of Cambridge)
• 17:15 - How We Hate Now: Xenophobia in the Age of Anti-Racism
  Madhumita Lahiri (U of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Friday 14 June 2024

• 09:00 - Religion, Race, and Concepts of Difference in the Modern Middle East
  The deadline for all proposals is 7 March 2024
  TBA
• 14:30 - The Consciousness of the Historical Jesus (PNTC 3/3)
  Austin Stevenson (Palm Beach Atlantic University)
  New Testament Seminar
• 17:00 - Book launch - Molla Nasreddin: The Making of a Modern Trickster, 1906-1911
  Professor Janet Afary (University of California)
  MEC SEMINAR SERIES

Saturday 15 June 2024

• 12:30 - Conference Day 1: Janus: Language and text between East Asian and Greco-Roman Classics
  Various Speakers
  Greco-Roman and East-Asian Classics events (Janus Project)

Sunday 16 June 2024

• 09:30 - Conference Day 2: Janus: Language and text between East Asian and Greco-Roman Classics
  Various Speakers
  Greco-Roman and East-Asian Classics events (Janus Project)

Thursday 20 June 2024

• 10:00 - TGHS Conference: Articulating Anti-Colonialism
  TBA
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 11:30 - TGHS Conference: Creations and Contestations
  Various Speakers
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 12:00 - China’s Military Rise: Two decades of catch up with the USA
  Professor Peter Robertson (University of Western Australia)
  China Centre talks
• 13:30 - TGHS Conference: Ecology and Colonialism
  TBA
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 14:30 - TGHS Conference: Media and Memorialisation
  TBA
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 16:30 - TGHS Conference: Pedagogy, Reconciliation and Commemoration
  Various Speakers
  Transnational & Global History Seminar

Friday 21 June 2024

• 10:00 - TGHS Conference: Colony and Metropole
  Various Speakers
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 11:30 - TGHS Conference: Cultures of Settler Colonialism
  Register here for online participation: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMuf-GgrDwqGtd0SJGTFjT6elWr8kuOPGXq
  Various Speakers
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 15:00 - TGHS Conference: Memory and Transnational Justice
  Various Speakers
  Transnational & Global History Seminar

Monday 24 June 2024

• 05:00 - The Path to a New Humanitarian World Order: Upholding Human Dignity and Climate Integrity
  HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal (Nelson Mandela Fellow, OCIS)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies - Events

Wednesday 26 June 2024

• 10:00 - Open scholarship: open monographs
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries), David Watson (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship

Thursday 27 June 2024

• 09:00 - Minoritisation in South Asia: Religion, Caste, Gender
  Abraham Akhter Murad (Kellogg College), Dr Faisal Devji, Justin Jones (Pembroke), Ruth Harris (University of Oxford ), Soheb Niazi (Freie Universität), Layli Uddin (Queen Mary University), Yaqoob Khan Bangash (Lahore), Madhurima Sen, Ghazal Asif Farrukhi (Lahore University of Management Sciences), Uday Chandra (Georgetown, Qatar), Shikoh Zaidi (Georgetown University, Qatar), Radhika Hettiarachchi (Collective for Historical Dialogues and Memory), Ipshita Basu (University of Westminster), Dr Meera Sabaratnam (New College, Oxford), S Akbar Zaidi (Institute of Business Administration Karachi), Thiruni Kelagama (Wolfson College, Oxford), Madura Rasaratnam (University of London), Maria Misra, Shehan Karunatilaka, Yasmin Khan (Kellogg College, Oxford), Adnan Hossain (University of Glasgow), Afiya S Zia (Wesleyan University), Daanish Mustafa (Kings College London), Julian Kuttig (Ghent University), Brahma Prakash (Jawaharlal Nehru University), Timothy Cooper (King's College, Cambridge), Mukesh Kumar (University of Zurich), Mathilde Maitrot (University of Bath), Joe Devine (University of Bath), Arif Naveed (University of Bath), Ajmal Khan AT (Shiv Nadar University)

Friday 28 June 2024

• 16:00 - The 1st Oxford Korean Literature Festival: A Conversation with Cha Inpyo
  Dr Jieun Kiaer (University of Oxford), Cha Inpyo

Thursday 4 July 2024

• 17:00 - Policies against poverty in all its forms: the MPI in Morocco
  Touhami Abdelkhalek (Mohammed VI Polytechnic University), Dorothee Boccanfuso (Mohammed VI Polytechnic University), Professor Sabina Alikre (Director of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative), Othmane Gair (President, National Observatory of Human Development, Morocco (ONDH))
• 18:00 - K-Pop from the Godfather of K-Pop and BTS
  Dr Jieun Kiaer (University of Oxford), Kim Hyung-Suk

Monday 8 July 2024

• 14:00 - Open scholarship: forum of open scholarship
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - Impact of Social Protection Programmes on Multidimensional Poverty: New Targeting Approaches and Application to Morocco
  Dr Ricardo Nogales (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative), Touhami Abdelkhalek (Mohammed VI Polytechnic University), Dorothee Boccanfuso (Mohammed VI Polytechnic University)

Tuesday 16 July 2024

• 10:30 - Open scholarship: fundamentals of open access
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Thursday 5 September 2024

• 14:30 - Open scholarship: logistics of open scholarship
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship

Tuesday 24 September 2024

• 18:00 - Book Launch: Christian-Jewish Relations 1000-1300: Jews in the Service of Medieval Christendom
  ANNA SAPIR ABULAFIA (PROFESSOR OF THE STUDY OF THE ABRAHAMIC RELIGIONS, LADY MARGARET HALL), Prof Aaron Koller (Oxford Interfaith Forum)
  Sacred Literature in Interfaith Contexts

Thursday 26 September 2024

• 14:30 - Open scholarship: foundations of copyright for teaching
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Chris Morrison (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Monday 14 October 2024

• 16:00 - Oriental Christ: What India did with Jesus and Why it is Important
  Ruth Harris (University of Oxford )
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Tuesday 15 October 2024

• 10:00 - Open scholarship: open monographs
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), David Watson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 14:00 - Being Hindu, Being Indian: Lala Lajpat Rai’s Ideas of Nationhood
  Vanya Vaidehi Bhargav (National Law School of India University, Bangalore, India)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Global Multidimensional Poverty for Children with Disabilities: A 40 countries study
  Dr Monica Pinilla-Roncancio (Research Associate Universidad de los Andes; Researcher OPHI)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 17:15 - The New Spirit of Islamism: Interactions between the AKP, Ennahda and the Muslim Brotherhood
  Dr Ezgi Başaran (University of Oxford)
  Book Talks

Wednesday 16 October 2024

• 17:00 - Moral Atmospheres: Islam and Media in a Marketplace
  Timothy Cooper (King's College, Cambridge)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Fragments of Home: Refugee Housing and the Politics of Shelter (Book Launch)
  Professor Tom Scott-Smith (University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 17 October 2024

• 10:30 - Open scholarship: fundamentals of open access
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - The Role of the UNAOC in a Multipolar World
  Mr Miguel Ángel Moratinos (High Representative United Nations Alliance of Civilizations)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies - Events
• 17:00 - Intrepid Nobodies: Chinese Servants in the Canton Trade, 1700-1850
  Dr Song-Chuan Chen (University of Warwick)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 18 October 2024

• 16:00 - Oxford Centre for Global History 3rd Anthony Gwilliam Annual Lecture - Mapping Civilizations: The World from the West
  Professor Josephine Quinn (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Global History events
• 17:00 - Colonial subjects and the right to have rights: Algeria, 1834
  Professor Charles Kurzman (University of North Carolina)
  Friday Seminars
• 17:00 - I Am a Living Object: Decolonizing Museum Spaces with Indigenous Narratives
  Dr Kanako Uzawa
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Monday 21 October 2024

• 12:00 - What is the Status Quo in the Taiwan Strait?
  Dr James Lee (Academia Sinica)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:00 - The challenges of writing Middle East history after 7 October: from Gaza to the climate crisis
  Dr Ibrahim al-Marashi (California State University)
  Book Talks

Tuesday 22 October 2024

• 14:00 - The Muslim son of a Hindu zamindar - family quarrels and religious boundaries in a Mughal landlord's lineage
  Nandini Chatterjee (Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 16:00 - A multidimensional measure for energy poverty in Colombia
  Francisco Espinosa (Co-founder and CEO, Inclusion SAS), Angela Granger (Consultant, Inclusion SAS), Ana Lorena Carrero (Consultant, Inclusion SAS)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 17:00 - COVID-19 in India: Epidemic, Inequality and Propaganda
  Dr Murad Banaji (University of Oxford)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)

Wednesday 23 October 2024

• 14:00 - Military Medicine and Imperial Ecology
  Ben Rymer (Oxford), Dr Hohee Cho (Oxford)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 17:00 - On Genocide: Then and Now
  Professor Phillipe Sands (University College London)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 24 October 2024

• 17:15 - Re-envisioning Interculturality through Decolonial Options: A search for a new Ethics of Performance
  Rustom Bharucha (Leverhulme Visiting Professor, University of Kent)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Friday 25 October 2024

• 16:00 - Writing the Indian Army and the Second World War
  David Omissi (Hull)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - From the cradle to the street: family and the 1979 Revolution in Iran
  Professor Naghmeh Sohrabi (Brandeis University)
  Friday Seminars
• 17:00 - Beneath Modernism: The Transformation of Popular Culture from Edo to Modern Japan
  Dr Ryoko Matsuba (University of East Anglia)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Monday 28 October 2024

• 19:00 - Documentary Screening | Amu Darya: River to a Missing Sea
  TBA

Tuesday 29 October 2024

• 14:00 - Populism, piety and postfeminism in Pakistan
  Afiya Zia (Independent scholar)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Multidimensional Poverty: Future Proof with Linked Macro-Micro Modelling
  Asghar Adelzadeh (Applied Development Research Solutions), Ludwe Ngangelizwe (Applied Development Research Solutions)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 17:15 - Tahrir, Gaza, and beyond: revolution, liberation, and praxis
  Rusha Latif (author of 'Tahrir's Youth: Leaders of a Leaderless Revolution')
  Book Talks

Wednesday 30 October 2024

• 17:00 - Iran’s Crisis of Governance
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Professor Anoush Ehteshami (Durham University)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Protection in the UK: the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
  Professor Başak Çalı (Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, University of Oxford), Professor Cathryn Costello (University College Dublin), Raza Husain KC (Matrix Chambers), Yasmine Ahmed (Human Rights Watch), Professor Catherine Briddick (Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 31 October 2024

• 17:00 - Imagined 'Chinatowns' (hancheng 漢城) in Medieval Manchuria: A Critical Han Studies Approach to Liao Dynasty Populations and Settlements
  Dr Lance Pursey
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 1 November 2024

• 16:00 - How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
  Caroline Dodds Pennock (Sheffield)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Tanaka Denjiro VII - A Kabuki Music Perfomance
  Tanaka Denjiro
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Saturday 2 November 2024

• 10:00 - South Sudan at the Crossroads, Election or No Election – What is the Prospect for Real Peace for South Sudan
  Please aim to register before 25th October 2024, as this helps greatly with planning for the day's catering and hospitality which are provided by St Antony's College.
  Various Speakers

Monday 4 November 2024

• 16:00 - Title TBC
  Ria Kapoor (Queen Mary University of London)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Tuesday 5 November 2024

• 14:00 - The political lives of Information: Information and invisibilisation in digital India
  Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Moderate Poverty Measurement in Middle Income Countries
  Dr Monica Pinilla-Roncancio (Research Associate Universidad de los Andes; Researcher OPHI), Miss Fanni Kovesdi (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative), Dr Hector Moreno (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative), Dr Ricardo Nogales (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative), Adriana Conconi (UNDP-LAC)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 17:00 - Mirror of the Universe: The Evolution of the Astrolabe
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Taha Yasin Arslan (Istanbul Medeniyet University)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)
• 17:15 - Conflict and citizenship: the challenges of Palestinian-Arabs in Israel
  Professor Sarab Abu-Rabia-Queder (Ben-Gurion University)

Wednesday 6 November 2024

• 09:30 - Open scholarship: copyright the card game
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Chris Morrison (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 14:00 - Wartime Captivity and Colonial Counterinsurgency
  Dr Kevin Noles (Independent), Hendrik Willem Nelis (Oxford)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 17:00 - History and the Modern Middle East: Do Policy Makers Need a Sense of the Past?
  Sir John Jenkins (Former UK Ambassador to Saudi Arabia)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Refugee Afterlives: Home, Hauntings, and Hunger
  Dr Ashwiny O Kistnareddy (Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:15 - Solidarity in Starving: Tsitsi Dangarembga’s 'Nervous Conditions' and the Emergence of Third World Feminism.
  Alys Moody (Bard)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Thursday 7 November 2024

• 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
• 17:00 - Efficacious Writing: The Workings of Talismans in Contemporary Daoist Practice
  Dr David Mozina (University of Cambridge)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 8 November 2024

• 16:00 - East of Empire: Egypt, India, and the World between the Wars
  Erin O'Halloran (Cambridge)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Regional dimensions of the Gaza crisis, and the Arab role in the UN Security Council
  Mouin Rabbani, Hasmik Egian
  Friday Seminars
• 17:00 - Ryūtei Saryū – Rakugo Performer
  Ryūtei Saryū
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Monday 11 November 2024

• 16:00 - Nightmares of Decolonization: Paramilitary Violence and the Making of South Asia
  Ali Raza (Lahore University of Management Sciences)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 17:00 - Book launch | Syndicates and Societies: Criminal Politics in Dhaka
  Dr David Jackman (Oxford Department of International Development), Professor Barbara Harriss-White ((Emeritus Professor of Development Studies, Oxford))
  ODID Special Lectures & Seminars
• 17:00 - Seung-Hee Nah | Resettlement Challenges of North Korean Women through the Lens of an Immigrant
  Seung-Hee Nah

Tuesday 12 November 2024

• 12:00 - China in the Caribbean with Implications for Western Hemisphere Geopolitics
  Dr Bhoendradatt Tewarie (The University of the West Indies)
  China Centre talks
• 14:00 - Radical Futures or Pristine Pasts? : The Afterlives of Anti-Casteism in Western India
  Surajkumar Thube (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Measuring 'Leaving no one behind': Options from India
  Professor Sabina Alkire (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 17:00 - Book launch: Communities, Mines, and Distributive Politics: Direct Contestation in the Andes
  Matthew Amengual (University of Oxford)
  ODID Special Lectures & Seminars
• 17:00 - Murder in the Maloo: A Tale of Old Shanghai
  Dr Paul Bevan (University of Oxford)
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China
• 17:00 - CANCELLED - Princess Akiko of Mikasa – A Tale of the Royal and Imperial Costumes: The Trajectory of UK-Japan Relations - CANCELLED
  Princess Akiko of Mikasa
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
• 17:15 - CANCELLED: Sacred Places Tell Tales: Jewish Life and Heritage in Modern Cairo
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Professor Yoram Meital (Ben-Gurion University)
  Book Talks

Wednesday 13 November 2024

• 14:00 - Reading, Writing, and Teaching Global History Now
  Professor Erica Charters (Oxford), Professor Manuel Barcia Paz (Leeds), Professor Richard Drayton (KCL)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 17:00 - English Judges in Muslim Countries: Synergies and Sensitivities in Promoting the Rule of Law
  Sir Peter Gross (Former Lord Justice of Appeal)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Conflict Refugees: European Union Law and Practice
  Dr Christel Querton (University of the West of England)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 14 November 2024

• 17:00 - Rural-to-Urban Migration, Gender and Familial Care in Post-Socialist China
  Professor Susanne Choi (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 15 November 2024

• 16:00 - Picturing War: Art and Empire in the Late-Victorian Period
  Sean Willcock (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The Abraham Accords: The Gulf States, Israel, and the Limits of Normalization
  Dr Elham Fakhro (Belfer Center, Harvard Kennedy School)
  Book Talks

Monday 18 November 2024

• 16:00 - The Charismatic Paradigm and Modernist Muslim Thought
  Teena Purohit (Boston University)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 17:00 - Atomized Incorporation: Chinese Workers and the Aftermath of China's Rise?
  Professor Sungmin Rho (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 19:00 - Heungboga: Exploring Korean Traditional Pansori and Folk Songs
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 19 November 2024

• 10:00 - Open scholarship: fundamentals of open access
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship
• 14:00 - Book Talk: Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir
  Omer Aijazi (Manchester)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 15:00 - Open Scholarship: Your thesis, copyright and ORA
  David Watson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Thomas Mitchell (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship
• 16:00 - Towards a ‘Moderate’ MPI for ISDB countries: Indicators and methodological options
  TBA
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty

Wednesday 20 November 2024

• 14:00 - Open scholarship: preregistration and registered reports: what, why, and how
  David Phillips (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Jacqueline Thompson (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship
• 14:00 - Networks of Refuge and Transnational Citizenship
  Pragya Kaul (Michigan), Vidura Jang Bahadur (Northwestern)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 16:00 - Roundtable | Just transitions or just confusions? Global climate cooperation amid uncertain times
  Pilar Garrido (OECD), Hamza Hamouchene (Transnational Institute), Dr Jessica Omukuti (Research Fellow on Inclusive Net Zero, working with the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society (InSIS) at the University of Oxford)
  Climate Change and the Challenges of Development
• 17:00 - Threats to the Rule of Law
  The Rt. Hon. Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury (Former President, UK Supreme Court)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - NGO Refugee Advocacy: Strengths, Weaknesses and Challenges
  Nick Henderson (CEO, Irish Refugee Council)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 21 November 2024

• 10:00 - Open scholarship: logistics of open scholarship
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - God's Man in Iraq: The Life and Leadership of Grand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani
  Sajad Jiyad
  Book Talks
• 17:00 - Compensation and the Consolidation of Authoritarian Power: Evidence from China’s 2016 PLA Reform
  Professor Victor Shih (University of California San Diego)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:15 - A panel to mark the 25th anniversary of J. M. Coetzee’s influential novel 'Disgrace', with Derek Attridge (York) and Urmila Seshagiri (Tennessee)
  Derek Attridge (University of York), Urmila Seshagiri (Tennessee)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Friday 22 November 2024

• 16:00 - Empires and everyday cultural coexistence: the Nineteenth century Ottoman Empire in comparative perspective
  Nicholas Doumanis (Illinois Chicago)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Writing Middle Eastern lives: biography in modern Arab history
  Professor Sonja Mejcher-Atassi (American University of Beirut), Professor Marilyn Booth (Magdalen College, Oxford), Dr Peter Hill (Northumbria University)
  Book Talks
• 17:00 - What Remains Invisible Still: Fukushima by Tsuchida Hiromi (2018) as the Formation of a Metaphor
  Dr Maki Fukuoka (University of Leeds)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Monday 25 November 2024

• 12:00 - Technology and the Rise of Great Powers
  Dr Jeffrey Ding (George Washington University)
  China Centre talks
• 14:00 - Open scholarship: forum of open scholarship
  Various Speakers
  Open Scholarship

Tuesday 26 November 2024

• 14:00 - Hate crime law as Meliorist Hope: Seeking justice for caste atrocities in Rajasthan
  Sandhya Fuchs (University of Bristol)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 16:10 - Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2024: Poverty amid conflict
  Please note amended starting time of 4:10pm GMT.
  Professor Sabina Alkire (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 17:00 - Air Quality in Oxford: Past, Present and Future
  Dr Suzanne Bartington (University of Birmingham)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)
• 17:15 - Saving Soviet Muslims: the politics of protection at Jerusalem's General Islamic Congress of 1931
  Dr Roy Bar Sadeh (University of Manchester)

Wednesday 27 November 2024

• 16:00 - Book launch | The Backstage of Democracy: India's Election Campaigns and the People who Manage Them
  Amogh Dhar Sharma (University of Oxford)
  ODID Special Lectures & Seminars
• 17:00 - Left Behind: A New Economics for Neglected Places
  Professor Sir Paul Collier (Blavatnik School of Government)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Anthropology of Good: Exploring Volunteerism in the 2015 European Refugee Crisis
  Professor Dawn Chatty (University of Oxford), Professor Annika Rabo (Stockholm University)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Audio(visual) Sources for Chinese Socialist Soundscapes: A Methodological Exploration
  Professor Jie Li (Harvard University)
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China
• 17:15 - Allegory, Dystopia and Fiction in our Time
  Supriya Chaudhuri (Jadavpur)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Thursday 28 November 2024

• 15:00 - ODID Research Roundtable: Citizenship
  Prof Matthew Gibney (Refugee Studies Centre), Prof Loren Landau (ODID, University of Oxford), Dr Julia Schweers (Refugee Studies Centre), Dr Dolores Señorans (ODID, University of Oxford), Professor Tom Scott-Smith (University of Oxford), Professor Simukai Chigudu (Associate Professor of African Politics and Fellow of St Antony's College)
  ODID Special Lectures & Seminars
• 16:00 - Industrial Decarbonization Policies: What Does it Take?
  Meriem Ait Ali Slimane (World Bank), Dr Amir Lebdioui (University of Oxford)
• 17:00 - Through Texts or Objects: How Classicists and Antiquarians Conceptualised the Chinese Ritual Jade cong
  Dr Qin Yang (University of Nottingham)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 29 November 2024

• 12:30 - Beyond Cultural Difference: Australian Indigenous Literary and Creative Writing Practices as Sites of Knowledge Production
  Eugenia Flynn (RMIT, Melbourne)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar
• 13:00 - Joint Workshop with the Department of Sociology: Dispute Resolution: Exploring Criminal, Informal, and Alternative Perspectives
  Various Speakers
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
• 16:00 - Empire of Emptiness: Fortresses of the Colonial Conquest in the Sahara
  Berny Sèbe (Birmingham)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Gaza – a war on healthcare
  Professor Nick Maynard (University of Oxford), Dr Debbie Harrington (Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust), Dr Rebecca Inglis (University of Oxford)
  Friday Seminars

Tuesday 3 December 2024

• 14:00 - Legalizing the Revolution: India and the Constitution of the Postcolony
  Sandipto Dasgupta (New School for Social Research, New York and Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Unidimensional Underpinnings of Multidimensional Counting Measures
  VENUE CHANGE: This seminar will now take place in the Music Room at Queen Elizabeth House, as well as online as usual.
  Professor James Foster (GWU), Professor Sabina Alkire (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty

Wednesday 4 December 2024

• 14:00 - Indentured Urbanity and Constitutional Law
  Dr Purba Hossain (York), Sahith Mandapalli (JNU)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 17:00 - Engaging with the Contemporary World: A Multi-Religious Perspective
  Professor Tomáš Halik (Charles University, Prague)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Rewriting Refugee Law: Centring Refugee Knowledges and Lived Experiences
  Professor Kate Ogg (Australian National University), Dr Saba Vasefi (scholar-journalist, poet, and documentary filmmaker), Professor Veronica Fynn Bruey (Athabasca University)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 5 December 2024

• 14:00 - Open scholarship: open monographs
  Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), David Watson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - Defining antisemitism: what is the point?
  Please note, this Friday Seminar will be taking place on *THURSDAY* for 8th Week.
  Professor Shai Lavi (Tel Aviv University), Dr Brian Klug (Oxford)
  Friday Seminars
• 17:00 - EU-Taiwan Relations in a New Reality: What Lies Ahead?
  Dr Zsuzsa Anna Ferenczy (National Dong-Hwa University, Hualien, Taiwan)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:15 - Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar
  Please note that this seminar has been postponed
  Ayelet Ben Yishai (Haifa)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Friday 6 December 2024

• 16:00 - The Statues of Robert Clive: The making and remaking of a supremacist icon
  Nandini Chatterjee (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 9 December 2024

• 11:00 - Riverways and rural resistance: The case of Colombia's Movimiento Ríos Vivos social movement
  Carolina Osorio Gil (Cornell University)
  ODID Special Lectures & Seminars

Tuesday 17 December 2024

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

Friday 20 December 2024

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

Monday 13 January 2025

• 12:00 - Moral Fluidity and Digital Economies: Socio-Economic Transformations in Rural China
  Mr Peng Wu (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
  China Centre talks

Tuesday 14 January 2025

• 10:00 - Open scholarship: Fundamentals of open access
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship
• 18:30 - Making Empire: Ireland and India
  This is an external, online event that may be of interest
  Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College, Dublin)
  Oxford Centre for Global History events

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

Tuesday 21 January 2025

• 14:00 - Organisation of Segregation: Reproducing Caste Inequalities in Urban India
  Jusmeet S Sihra (University of Cambridge)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The Political Thought of Xi Jinping
  Professor Steve Tsang (SOAS)
  China Centre talks

Wednesday 22 January 2025

• 17:00 - Monarchy and Mass Politics in the Middle East
  Professor Scott Williamson (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Producing the Camp-able Territory: Displacement, Domicide, and the Common Camp in Palestine-Israel’s Century of Settler Colonialism
  Dr Irit Katz (University of Cambridge)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 23 January 2025

• 14:30 - Open Scholarship: Logistics of open scholarship
  Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Polly Bannister (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - Grassroots Officials, Worker Wrongdoings, and Masculinity in the Nantong Municipal Steel Rolling Mill c. 1970
  Dr Amanda Zhang (Birkbeck, University of London)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:15 - Life Writing and the Southern Hemisphere: a book conversation
  Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford), Dr Katherine Collins (University of Oxford), Dr Elizabeth Chant (Warwick), Dr Archie Davies (QMUL), Dr Emma Parker (Bristol), Dr Tinashe Mushakavanhu (St Anne’s College, Oxford)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Friday 24 January 2025

• 16:00 - Beyond Boundaries: Developing Indigenous Intellectual History
  Saliha Belmessous (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Lebanon and Syria amidst regional turmoil
  Associate Professor Joseph Bahout (Director of the Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs, AUB)
  Friday Seminars
• 17:00 - Religion at the margins: Fear and belonging in minority religious communities in Japan
  Professor Erica Baffelli (University of Manchester)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Monday 27 January 2025

• 10:00 - Reading Nineteen Eighty-Four in Beijing
  Professor Jeffrey Wasserstrom (University of California Irvine)
  China Centre talks

Tuesday 28 January 2025

• 14:00 - From ‘Riot’ to ‘Pogrom’: A History of Ethno-Religious Violence in Sri Lanka
  Shamara Wettimuny (Queen’s College, University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The Oxford Handbook of Religion in Turkey
  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

Wednesday 29 January 2025

• 12:00 - US-China Relations in the 21st Century: Prospect and Retrospect
  Dr Andrew Scobell (United States Institute of Peace)
  China Centre talks
• 14:00 - Global Flows
  Xu Duo (University of Hamburg), Sara Zanotta (Università degli Studi di Pavia)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 17:00 - The Sun Sets in the West: The Battle for Soft Power in a Multipolar World
  Mr Simon Anholt (Anholt & Co.)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Refuge-Making: Stories from Iraq
  Dr Sana Murrani (University of Plymouth)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 30 January 2025

• 17:00 - A China Reporter's Notebook - Watching a Great Power Open and Rise, then Turn Inwards
  Mr David Rennie (The Economist)
  China Studies Seminar series

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 - Sudan's current war: a longer view on peacemaking and prospects
  Dr Richard Barltrop (Visiting Senior Fellow, LSE Middle East Centre)
  Friday Seminars
• 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

• 14:00 - Unfair ID: Digital Identity from Injustice to Resistance
  Silvia Masiero (University of Oslo)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 16:10 - Measuring women's empowerment in low- and middle-income countries
  Jhonatan Clausen (Institute of Human Development of Latin America), Nicolás Barrantes (Institute of Human Development of Latin America)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 17:00 - Rethinking Masculinity Through Men's Sexual Experiences in Tehran
  Dr Nafiseh Sharifi (University of Exeter)
  Women’s Rights Research Seminars
• 17:00 - Transforming the Way of Water: Yvonne Owuor’s The Dragonfly Sea and Zao Wou-Ki’s Paintings
  Shuangyi Li (University of Bristol)
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China

Wednesday 5 February 2025

• 17:00 - Mirror of the Universe: The Evolution of the Astrolabe
  Dr Taha Arslan (Istanbul Medeniyet University)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

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
• 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
• 17:00 - No Exit: Preventing Exit to Prevent Entry
  Note - this seminar takes place on a Thursday, not the usual Wednesday
  Professor Audrey Macklin (University of Toronto)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - A Nosedive into Medieval China: Smells, Identities and the Writing of the Olfactory Past
  Dr Flavia Xi Fang (University of London)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:00 - The Politics of Global Vaccine Equity
  Dr Renu Singh (Durham University)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series

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
• 17:00 - The Axis of Resistance
  Dr Kamran Matin (University of Sussex), Dr Amal Saad (Cardiff University), Yasmeen al-Eryani (Co-Executive Director, Sana’a Center for Strategic Studies)
  Friday Seminars
• 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

• 10:00 - Open Scholarship: Fundamentals of open access
  Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Beth Saward (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship
• 12:00 - The Art of State Persuasion: China's Strategic Use of Media in Interstate Disputes
  Dr Frances Yaping Wang (Colgate University)
  China Centre talks
• 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
• 16:10 - Resilient Human Development: Advancing human development amidst shocks
  Professor Sabina Alkire (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 17:00 - Tribal Voting in New Democracies: Evidence from 6 Million Tunisian Voter Records
  Associate Professor Steven Brooke (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
  MENA Politics Seminars
• 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
• 17:00 - Botanical remediations: Farming, Plants and Contemporary Arts in Hong Kong
  Dr Minna Valjakka (University of Helsinki)
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China
• 17:00 - Market Failure: Climate Crisis, Green Energy and the Limits of Capitalism
  Professor Brett Christophers (Uppsala University)
  Climate Change and the Challenges of Development

Wednesday 12 February 2025

• 14:00 - Global Diplomatic History
  Sujato Datta (Freie Universität Berlin), Jonathan Jackson (University of Cologne)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 15:00 - Open Scholarship: REF open access policy briefing
  Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), David Watson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - Social, Cultural and Political Determinants of Riots
  Professor Kamaldeep Bhui (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Film Screening and Q&A: Chileans of the North
  Professor Ben Bollig (Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford), Dr Helia López Zarzosa (Sociologist and Independent Researcher), Chris Paul (Director, Chileans of the North)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

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
• 17:15 - Writing the Life of Author and Screenwriter Hanif Kureishi: Race, Class, and Multiculturalism
  Professor Ruvani Ranasinha (KCL)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Friday 14 February 2025

• 16:00 - Medicine for Ghosts: Visions, Possessions, and Medical Exchange in Early Modern Southeast Asia
  This seminar has been cancelled, due to unforeseen circumstances
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Tara Alberts (York)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Israeli Public Opinion, War and Prospects for Peace
  Dr Dahlia Scheindlin (Fellow, Century International & Columnist, Haaretz Newspaper)
  Friday Seminars
• 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

Monday 17 February 2025

• 12:00 - China’s Evolving Approach to Economic Security
  Professor Yeling Tan (University of Oxford)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 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 (King's College London)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 16:10 - Commodity Price Shocks and Quality of Employment in Peru
  Beatriz Jambrina (OPHI)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 17:00 - Genocide in Gaza
  Professor Avi Shlaim (MEC Emeritus Fellow)
  Book Talks
• 17:00 - Hilary Term Lecture 2025: Historical Justice under State Socialism
  Professor Daniel Leese (University of Freiburg)
  Oxford Centre for Global History events

Wednesday 19 February 2025

• 12:00 - Pathways to Conflict in the South China Sea
  Professor David A. Welch (University of Waterloo)
  China Centre talks
• 14:00 - Transnational and Global History Workshop
  Various Speakers
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 17:00 - Economic Diversification, State Fragility, and Development in Muslim Societies
  Professor Adnan Khan (FCDO)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Supply Chain Justice: The Logistics of British Border Control
  Prof. Mary Bosworth (University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 20 February 2025

• 17:00 - Diaspora Chinese and Modern China: Transnationalism and Class of the Chinese of the British West Indies, the 1880s–1970s
  Professor Setsuko Sonoda (Ritsumeikan University)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:00 - Feminism in International Security Discourses - How we argue for participation matters
  Karolin Tuncel (Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series

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
  Professor Johannes Waardenburg (IULM)
  Friday Seminars
• 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

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
• 16:10 - Poverty and its many faces: An analytical framework for deprivation interlinkages
  Dr Nicolai Suppa (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 17:00 - Women’s Religious Leadership in Morocco: A Catalyst for Mudawana Reform
  Dr Sawsene Nejjar (OSGA, University of Oxford)
  Women’s Rights Research Seminars

Wednesday 26 February 2025

• 12:00 - Mecca in Morocco: Studying the Socio-Cultural Embeddedness of Pilgrimage in Muslim Everyday Life
  Dr Kholoud al-Ajarma (University of Edinburgh)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 14:00 - Open Scholarship: Introduction to Persistent Identifiers
  Neil Jefferies (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship
• 14:00 - Transnational Left Solidarity
  Vladimir Bortun (University of Oxford), Mariana Steiner Farias (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 17:00 - Coinage of Mughal South Asia and the Muslim Chain of Being
  Professor Azfar Moin (University of Texas, Austin)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Scattered: The making and unmaking of a refugee. A conversation with Aamna Mohdin
  Aamna Mohdi (The Guardian)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 27 February 2025

• 09:00 - Open Scholarship: Copyright the card game
  Chris Morrison (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - Attitudes Toward Normalization in a Conflict Context: Evidence from the Arab-Israeli Conflict
  Dr Ibrahim Khatib (Doha Institute)

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
• 16:00 - Imperialism and Ethnology: The Ottoman Case
  Giancarlo Casale (EUI)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 16:00 - European Parliament Diplomacy in a Shaken World
  TBA
• 16:00 - European Parliament Diplomacy in a Shaken World
  Dr. Zoltan Simon (European Parliament)
• 17:00 - *CANCELLED* Public opinion in Palestine since 7 October
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Professor Khalil Shikaki (Director, Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research)
  Friday Seminars
• 17:30 - Hostile | Film Screening plus Q&A with the Director, Sonita Gale
  Sonita Gale (Film maker)
  ODID Special Lectures & Seminars

Monday 3 March 2025

• 10:00 - Open Scholarship: Fundamentals of open access
  Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Beth Saward (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship
• 13:00 - OxFOS25 - The Innovation that Follows Open Scholarship: Examples from eLife and the Public Knowledge Project
  John Willinsky (Stanford University), Godwyns Onwuchekwa (eLife Sciences)
  Open Scholarship
• 15:00 - OxFOS25 - How To Start and Manage a Journal on the World’s Most Widely Used (Free) Journal Platform OJS
  John Willinsky (Stanford University)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - OxFOS25 Keynote - As Open as Possible, As Permanent as Necessary: Towards the Sustainability of Openness
  Professor Christopher Smith (AHRC), Richard Ovenden (Chair)
  Open Scholarship

Tuesday 4 March 2025

• 10:00 - Open Scholarship: Foundations of copyright for researchers
  Chris Morrison (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 13:00 - OxFOS25 - Economics and Experiments in Open Access Publishing
  Martin Paul Eve (Birkbeck, University of London), Dr Janneke Adema (Coventry University), Ronald Snijder (OAPEN)
  Open Scholarship
• 14:00 - ‘Mao-Lana’ of Asia: Bhashani, Black Maoism, and Islamic Socialism in the 1960s
  Layli Uddin (Queen Mary University of London)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 16:10 - Multidimensional deprivation among Italian youth
  Elisabetta Segre (Italian Statistics Agency), Alessandra Tinto (Italian Statistics Agency)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 17:00 - Smugglers and States: Negotiating the Maghreb at Its Margins
  Dr Max Gallien (Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex)
  Book Talks
• 17:00 - Anthropocene Urbanity and Surreal Imagery: Hong Kong in Contemporary Sinophone Fiction
  Professor Xiaofan Amy Li (UCL)
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China

Wednesday 5 March 2025

• 10:30 - Open Scholarship: Open Monographs
  Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), David Watson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 13:00 - OxFOS25 - Research Data Management - Show & Tell
  David Watson (University of Oxford), Neil Jefferies (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries), Damon Strange (Humanities, University of Oxford), Alexandra Rooney (University of Oxford), Peter Micklem (Research Support team, IT Services, University of Oxford), Dr Meriel Patrick (Research Support team, IT Services, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - How to Study Arabic and Islamic Philosophy? Once Again about al-Ghazali and Descartes
  Professor Frank Griffel (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:15 - The Politics of Immigration and the Politics of Identity | The Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture 2025
  Please use Octagon Gate entrance, located on Longwall Street side entrance to Magdalen College.
  Kenan Malik (Writer, lecturer and broadcaster)
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures

Thursday 6 March 2025

• 10:00 - Open Scholarship: ORCIDs from scratch
  Neil Jefferies (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 13:00 - OxFOS25 - An introduction to Carpentries
  Various Speakers
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - Yang sheng and Diaitētikē: Comparative Perspectives on Regimen in Early China
  Dr Arthur Harris (Cambridge)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:15 - Fanon Questions
  Robert Young (New York University)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Friday 7 March 2025

• 10:00 - OxFOS25 - Building open research communities
  Professor Susanna-Assunta Sansone (University of Oxford, Chair), Anna Guttesen (WIN Open Science Ambassador), Charles Rahal (RROx, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 12:00 - Land and the Origins of Contemporary Politics in Asia - Mainland China, Taiwan, Indonesia and Malaysia
  Professor William Hurst (University of Cambridge)
  China Centre talks
• 13:00 - OxFOS 2025 - Redefining Scientific Publishing
  Brian Nosek (Centre for Open Science), Alex Freeman (Octopus.ac), Allyson Lister (University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - From Jihad to Politics: How Syrian Jihadis Embraced Politics
  Dr Jerome Drevon (Senior Analyst, Crisis Group)
  Book Talks
• 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

Monday 10 March 2025

• 12:00 - Involuntary Bachelorhood and the Crises of the Son-centred Intergenerational Contract – Insights from Gender-imbalanced Rural China
  Professor Lisa Eklund (Lund Universty)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 13:30 - OxFOS25 : How Research Security Matters for Participatory Science
  Paul Ayris (University College, London), Dr. Tiberius Ignat (SKS Knowledge Services)
  Open Scholarship
• 15:00 - OxFOS25: Research Practice - Responsible Knowledge Exchange, Engagement and Impact
  Sarah Callaghan (Research Practice Group, University of Oxford), Dr Alis Oancea (Oxford University Department of Education)
  Open Scholarship

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
• 12:00 - From Click to Boom: The Political Economy of E-commerce in China
  Dr Lizhi Liu (Georgetown University)
  China Centre talks
• 14:00 - ‘Home’ in Sikh Polity: Understandings of mīrī pīrī in contemporary Britain
  Jaskiran Kaur Bhogal (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 15:00 - OxFOS25: Open Knowledge Infrastructure
  Wolfram Horstman (Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure “FIZ Karlsruhe” (Germany)), Caroline Edwards
  Open Scholarship
• 16:10 - Using Machine Learning to Estimate Multidimensional Poverty
  Moumita Ghorai (UNDP HDRO), Heriberto Tapia (UNDP HDRO)
  OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
• 17:00 - Understanding Syria through Syrian Voices: Refugees’ Stories of Revolution, War, and the Struggle for Home
  Professor Wendy Pearlman (Northwestern University)
  Book Talks
• 17:00 - The End of Engagement: America's China and Russia Experts and US Strategy Since 1989
  Professor David M. McCourt (University of California Davis)
  China Centre talks
• 17:00 - Book talk: The Home I Worked to Make: Voices from the New Syrian Diaspora
  Jointly hosted with the Middle East Centre, St Antony's College
  Professor Wendy Pearlman (Northwestern University)
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures
• 17:00 - OxFOS25: Lightning Talks
  Various Speakers
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - Social Equity and Care for the Earth: Tensions and Synergies
  Various Speakers
  Climate Change and the Challenges of Development

Wednesday 12 March 2025

• 10:30 - OxFOS25: Past and Present of Open
  Sally Rumsey, Beth Montague-Hellen (Francis Crick Institute), Jenni Adams (University of Sheffield), Ric Campbell
  Open Scholarship
• 12:30 - OxFOS25 Reproducible Research Oxford lunch
  The RROx team
  Open Scholarship
• 13:30 - OxFOS25 The Future of Open
  TBA
  Open Scholarship
• 14:00 - Imperial & Transnational Histories of War
  Jake Gasson (King's College London), Salvador Lima (European University Institute)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 15:30 - OxFOS25 Would I lie to you?
  Patricia Logullo, Marc Brouard, Mae Chester-Jones, Gaurav Bhalerao, Charles Rahal (RROx, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - Reflections on the War in Sudan
  Dame Rosalind Marsden (RIIA)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - 'Wicked' Challenges in Migration Management: Weaponization, Politicization, and Hostile Influence Operations
  Professor Kelly Greenhill (Tufts University and MIT)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - OxFOS25 Posters and Wine
  Various Speakers
  Open Scholarship

Thursday 13 March 2025

• 10:00 - OxFOS25 Peer Reviewing Peer Review
  Nick De Vito (Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences)
  Open Scholarship
• 13:00 - OxFOS25 The Future of Open Publication: the publishers’ view
  Alessio Bolognesi, Rebecca Lawrence
  Open Scholarship
• 14:00 - Open Scholarship: Introduction to Open Science Framework at Oxford
  Neil Jefferies (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship

Friday 14 March 2025

• 17:00 - Do we really owe Arabs nothing?
  Professor Fouad Laroui (Professor of epistemology and writer)
  Friday Seminars
• 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

Saturday 15 March 2025

• 10:00 - The Roles of Women's and Civil Society Activism in Sudan and South Sudan
  Various Speakers

Thursday 27 March 2025

• 10:00 - Open Scholarship: Logistics of open scholarship
  Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Beth Saward (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship

Thursday 10 April 2025

• 14:30 - Open Scholarship: Fundamentals of open access
  Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Beth Saward (Bodleian Libraries), Polly Bannister (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Friday 25 April 2025

• 12:00 - Governing Digital China
  Prof Daniela Stockmann (The Hertie School)
  China Centre talks

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

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 - Political Economy and Economic Institutions of the Ottoman Empire in Comparative Perspective
  Professor Sevket Pamuk (Bogazici University)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 1 May 2025

• 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

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
• 17:00 - East of Empire: Egypt, India, and the World between the Wars
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  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

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
• 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
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  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

Thursday 15 May 2025

• 17:00 - After the End of the World: Another Season of War in South Lebanon
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Munira Khayyat (NYU Abu Dhabi)

Friday 16 May 2025

• 17:00 - Dame Zaha Hadid Mini Series – Celebrating 10 Years Of The Investcorp Building
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Michael Wolfson (Wolfson Design)
  Friday Seminars

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
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Pankaj Mishra
  Book Talks

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
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Rana Husseini (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
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  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
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Amal Nazzal (Birzeit University), Suheir Assad (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

Friday 30 May 2025

• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Samer Abdelnour (University of Edinburgh Business School)
  Friday Seminars

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
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  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

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

• 17:00 - Contemporary Islamic Studies seminar
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  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

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
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Joseph Giovannini (Giovannini Associates)

Wednesday 18 June 2025

• 17:00 - A Bridge to the Sky: Science and Arts in the Age of Ibn Firnas (d. 887)
  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