Events of Interest to the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Talks:

Thursday 10 April 2025

Open Scholarship: Fundamentals of open access
Date: 10 April 2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker s: Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Beth Saward (Bodleian Libraries), Polly Bannister (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 25 April 2025

Governing Digital China
Date: 25 April 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Daniela Stockmann (The Hertie School)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lucina Ho Seminar Room (first floor)
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 29 April 2025

A Kerala Pilgrimage Approaches Its Centenary - why it matters for South India and the wider world
Date: 29 April 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Alex Gath (University of Oxford)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser: Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 30 April 2025

The Transformative Power of Multidimensional Poverty Statistics for Social Development
Date: 30 April 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker
Organiser: Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI)
Hosts: TBA

2025 George Rousseau Lecture: On the logic of autocracy and the plasticity of history: the case of Frederick William I, King of Prussia
Date: 30 April 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger ((Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin/Institute of Advanced Study))
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Auditorium
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Political Economy and Economic Institutions of the Ottoman Empire in Comparative Perspective
Date: 30 April 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Sevket Pamuk (Bogazici University)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 1 May 2025

World Literature from the Viewpoint of Atrocity
Date: 1 May 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Bruce Robbins (Columbia)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Okinaga Room
Organisers: Prof. Pablo Mukherjee (Wolfson), Prof. Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford), Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 2 May 2025

Early Career Workshop for Global Early Modern Intellectual History
Date: 2 May 2025, 14:00 - 17:00
Speaker s: Tania Bride (Exeter College, Oxford), Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford), Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet (St Catherine's College, Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 6 May 2025

Open Scholarship: Fundamentals of open access
Date: 6 May 2025, 10:00 - 11:30
Speaker s: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), David Phillips (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 7 May 2025

The Unfinished Modernisation: Women’s Cinema in China’s Reform Era
Date: 7 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Associate Professor Lidan Hu (Sichuan University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Maria Jaschok (University of Oxford)

Beyond Castes and Regions: The Socio-Economic Decline of Muslims in Contemporary India
Date: 7 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Christophe Jaffrelot (Kings College, London)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 8 May 2025

Open Scholarship: Foundations of copyright for teaching
Date: 8 May 2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker s: Chris Morrison (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Journal editing in the changing marketplace: Postcolonial writing or world literature?
Date: 8 May 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Janet Wilson (Northampton and editor-in-chief, Journal of Postcolonial Literature)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Okinaga Room
Organisers: Prof. Pablo Mukherjee (Wolfson), Prof. Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford), Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 13 May 2025

Open Scholarship: Logistics of open scholarship
Date: 13 May 2025, 10:00 - 11:30
Speaker : Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Afghanistan and the Concept of Asia: Intellectual Geographies in an Age of Reform
Date: 13 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Marya Hannun (University of Exeter)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser: Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)
Host: Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 14 May 2025

Rich World, Poor World: The Struggle to Escape Poverty in Muslim Societies
Date: 14 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Mr Ali Allawi (Former Minister of Finance, Defense, and Trade of Iraq)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 20 May 2025

Labour as Method: Studying Technologies of the South
Date: 20 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Hemangini Gupta (University of Edinburgh)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser: Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant
Date: 20 May 2025, 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker : Curtis Chin (Writer, Producer, Director)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Anna Lora-Wainwright (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 21 May 2025

Building State Capacity in Fragile States
Date: 21 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Michael Callen (London School of Economics)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 22 May 2025

Emergency as Genre
Date: 22 May 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Ayelet Ben-Yishai (Haifa)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Okinaga Room
Organisers: Prof. Pablo Mukherjee (Wolfson), Prof. Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford), Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 26 May 2025

Institutional Genes: The Origins of China’s Institutions and Totalitarianism
Date: 26 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Chenggang Xu (Stanford University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Verna Yu (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 27 May 2025

Designing with the Rohingya: Trauma, Resilience, Memory
Date: 27 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Professor Esther da Costa Meyer (Princeton University and Yale University)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser: Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)
Host: Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 28 May 2025

Open Scholarship: Introduction to Persistent Identifiers
Date: 28 May 2025, 10:00 - 11:30
Speaker : Neil Jefferies (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Open Scholarship: Introduction to Open Science Framework at Oxford
Date: 28 May 2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker : Neil Jefferies (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

The Origins of Perso-Islamic Courts and Empires in India
Date: 28 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Blain Auer (University of Lausanne)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 3 June 2025

Ecologies of Caste and Waste: Dependence and Value Making at the Bhalswa Landfill in Delhi
Date: 3 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Aparna Agarwal (University of Lausanne)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser: Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)
Host: Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)

Open Scholarship: Your thesis, copyright & ORA
Date: 3 June 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker s: David Watson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Thomas Mitchell (Bodleian Libraries)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 4 June 2025

Open scholarship: Playing in the open: Getting familiar with creative commons licences
Date: 4 June 2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker s: Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Science Library, off Parks Road OX1 3QP
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Iran’s Crisis of Governance
Date: 4 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Anoush Ehteshami (Durham University)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 9 June 2025

Open Scholarship: REF open access policy briefing
Date: 9 June 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Sarah Humphries (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 11 June 2025

Al-Ghazālī and the Ideal of Godlikeness
Date: 11 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Sophia Vasalou (University of Birmingham)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 12 June 2025

Open Scholarship: Fundamentals of open access
Date: 12 June 2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker s: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Beth Saward (Bodleian Libraries)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 18 June 2025

A Bridge to the Sky: Science and Arts in the Age of Ibn Firnas (d. 887)
Date: 18 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Glaire Anderson (University of Edinburgh)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 19 June 2025

Rewriting the Land: Culture, the Early Marx, and the Brazilian Landless Workers’ Movement (MST)
Date: 19 June 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Daniel Hartley (Durham)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: History of the Book Room
Organisers: Prof. Pablo Mukherjee (Wolfson), Prof. Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford), Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 25 June 2025

Open Scholarship: Copyright the card game
Date: 25 June 2025, 14:00 - 17:00
Speaker s: Chris Morrison (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Science Library, off Parks Road OX1 3QP
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 1 July 2025

Open Scholarship: Logistics of open scholarship
Date: 1 July 2025, 10:00 - 11:30
Speaker : Sarah Humphries (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 7 July 2025

Open Scholarship: Forum of open scholarship
Date: 7 July 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 24 July 2025

Open Scholarship: Fundamentals of open access
Date: 24 July 2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker s: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), David Phillips (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

This list contains talks from the following series:
9th Ratanbai Katrak Lectures
After Rome and Further East Seminar
China Centre talks
China Studies Seminar series
George Rousseau Lectures
Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
Greco-Roman and East-Asian Classics events (Janus Project)
Grinfield Lectures on The Septuagint 2024 | SÉBASTIEN MORLET - “The Plurality of the Biblical Text - Past and Present”
Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire
Interreligious Interactions in South Asia (Virtual Colloquium)
Islamicate Intellectual History Seminar Series
Magic, Maths, Mamluks, and Mongols: History of Islamic Science at the Boundaries
Mandarin Forum
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Middle East Centre Seminar Series
Modern Jewish Thought Seminar
Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
New Testament Seminar
Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
Open Scholarship
Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
Oxford Centre for Global History events
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies - Events
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
Oxford China Reading Group (OxCRG)
Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar
Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures
RSC Trinity Term Public Seminar Series
Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)
SEMINAR ON JEWISH HISTORY AND LITERATURE IN THE GRAECO-ROMAN PERIOD
Silence and Visuality Seminar Series in Armenian Art and History
South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
The 54th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies: Material Religion in Byzantium & Beyond
TOSCCA/ONGC Seminar series
TOSCCA/ONGC Seminar series on the Caucasus and Central Asia
Transnational & Global History Seminar
Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China