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

Tuesday 11 March 2025

• 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
• 16:00 - An Exceptional Identity: The Role of US History Education in (Re)Producing American Exceptionalism
  Emma Hall (University of Warwick)
  American History Research Seminar
• 16:15 - The Tsushima Domain and the Taiping Rebellion: Intelligence Networks and Information Circulation in Japan, 1853–1855
  Dr Yongchao Cheng (Tohoku University)
  Early Modern Diplomacy c.1400-1800
• 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 - Sustainability, prosperity and global decision-making in the age of ecological scarcity
  Edward Barbier (Colorado State University)
  Oxford Martin School Events

Wednesday 12 March 2025

• 14:00 - Imperial & Transnational Histories of War
  Jake Gasson (King's College London), Salvador Lima (European University Institute)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 16:30 - Who Built the ‘Spanish’ Empire? Legislation, Toleration, and the Co-Creation of a Global Superpower
  Adrian Masters (University of Trier)
  Iberian History Seminar
• 17:00 - Reflections on the War in Sudan
  Dame Rosalind Marsden (RIIA)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - A Team of Palace Historians: the Final Redactions of Theophanes Continuatus and the De Cerimoniis
  Michael Featherstone (Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:00 - Designing for Scarcity, Navigating Decline: Architecture, Industry, and Global Economic Transformation in Twentieth-Century China
  Huirong Cheng (University of Edinburgh), Niall Chithelen (University of California, San Diego)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Thursday 13 March 2025

• 12:30 - Using geophysics to understand volcanic eruptions and search for geothermal energy resources
  Prof Martyn Unsworth (University of Alberta)
  Oxford Martin School Events
• 17:00 - Global religious change and patterns of ruler conversion, 1450-1850
  Alan Strathern (Brasenose)
  Oxford Seminar in Early Modern Global Intellectual History
• 17:00 - Why do we study China in the way that we do (and can we still today)? Reflections from a Frequent Flyer
  Professor Shaun Breslin (Warwick)
  Baillie Gifford Distinguished Speaker Series

Tuesday 18 March 2025

• 14:00 - Early Career Workshop for Global Early Modern Intellectual History
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  Oxford Seminar in Early Modern Global Intellectual History

Monday 24 March 2025

• 09:00 - 1-Day Conference: History, Eugenics, and Human Enhancement: How the Past Can Inform Ethical Debates in the Present
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Medical Humanities

Tuesday 13 May 2025

• 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

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

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