Thursday 21 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - From COVID-19 to MPox: Lessons from the Humanities?
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Medical Humanities
• 17:00 - Fighting misinformation on social media: the role of economic research
  Professor Sergei Guriev (Dean, London Business School)
  Oxford Martin School Events
• 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

Friday 22 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Language and Politics in the Sinophone World
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group
• 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

Monday 25 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Technology and the Rise of Great Powers
  Dr Jeffrey Ding (George Washington University)
  China Centre talks

Tuesday 26 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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
• 16:00 - John Reed, Edgar Snow, Herbert Matthews, and the Question of Journalistic Truth
  Simon Hall (Leeds)
  American History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Productive Misunderstandings: Confraternities, Catholic liturgy and the reconfiguration of Andean native lordship in the early colonial period
  Isabel Yaya Mckenzie (EHESS)
  Oxford Seminar in Early Modern Global Intellectual History

Wednesday 27 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:15 - A Woman Doing Her Accounts: Some Lessons from a Peripatetic Early Modern Image
  Dror Wahrman, Chair: Lyndal Roper
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 12:30 - ‘Cities rethought’: a book launch and lunchtime discussion
  Michael Keith (COMPAS, University of Oxford), Professor Sue Parnell (University of Bristol), Professor Edgar Pieterse (University of Cape Town), Professor Gillian Rose (School of Geography and the Environment), Professor Tim Schwanen (Transport Studies Unit University of Oxford ), Professor Fran Tonkiss (London School of Economics and Political Science)
  Oxford Martin School Events
• 14:00 - Medical Humanities Early Career and DPhil Writing Group
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Medical Humanities
• 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 - The Rise of the Memrā in Syriac Literature
  Alberto Rigolio (Durham)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:00 - Transnational Networks and Contestations: 20th Century Territorial Conquest and the Cold War
  Jiang Zhifeng (National University of Singapore), Clara Galzerano (University of Trento)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Thursday 28 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Towards a liveable planet: land, energy and food system transitions
  Professor Paul Behrens (British Academy Global Professor)
  Oxford Martin School Events
• 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 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Bringing Criminological Imagination to China Studies
  Professor Jianhua Xu (University of Macau)
  China Centre talks
• 14:00 - KMT Authoritarianism and “Project National Glory”
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group
• 16:00 - Empire of Emptiness: Fortresses of the Colonial Conquest in the Sahara
  Berny Sèbe (Birmingham)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Tuesday 3 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 - Testimonies of Emotion: Enslaved People's Emotional Lives in the Antebellum US South
  Beth Wilson (Oxford)
  American History Research Seminar
• 16:15 - Bending the Knee, Bending the Word: Rituals of Power in Russian-Central Asian Diplomacy
  Dr Ulfat Abdurasulov (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
  Early Modern Diplomacy c.1400-1800
• 17:00 - Al-Damiri’s Life of Animals in the European-Ottoman Republic of Letters
  Simon Mills (University of Newcastle)
  Oxford Seminar in Early Modern Global Intellectual History

Wednesday 4 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:15 - The Future in the Archives: Catholic Minorities Preserving their Past in the Dutch Republic
  Liesbeth Corens, Chair: Giora Sternberg
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 12:00 - An Outlook for US-China-Taiwan Relations under Trump 2.0
  Professor Lu Yeh-chung (National Chengchi University (NCCU),)
  China Centre talks
• 14:00 - Medical Humanities Early Career and DPhil Writing Group
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Medical Humanities
• 14:00 - Indentured Urbanity and Constitutional Law
  Dr Purba Hossain (York), Sahith Mandapalli (JNU)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 16:30 - Reimagining the Black Iberian Atlantic: A Roundtable Discussion of Chloe Ireton’s Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic (CUP, 2024)
  Chloe Ireton (UCL), Erica Field-Marchello (Exeter College, Oxford), Giuseppe Marcocci (Exeter College, Oxford), Meleisa Ono-George (The Queen's College, Oxford)
  Iberian 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 - Methodologies of Commensuration: Poetry, History, and Knowledge
  Zdenka Stahuljak (UCLA)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:00 - Constructing Thought and Infrastructure: The Interplay of Ideology and Development across East Asia
  Huo Changwei (SOAS University of London), Ha Jaeyoung (Peking University)
  International History of East Asia Seminar
• 17:15 - Violent Seas: Experience, Representation, and Technology of Naval Warfare, 1665–1783
  Sarah von Hagen (Göttingen)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 5 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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

Friday 6 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - The CCP at the Grassroots
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group
• 16:00 - The Statues of Robert Clive: The making and remaking of a supremacist icon
  Nandini Chatterjee (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Tuesday 21 January 2025 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Morale: A Revolutionary Idea?
  Krysten Blackstone (Salford)
  American History Research Seminar

Friday 24 January 2025 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Beyond Boundaries: Developing Indigenous Intellectual History
  Saliha Belmessous (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Tuesday 28 January 2025 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Anishinaabe Albion: Indigenous Diplomacy, Performance, and Resistance in the British Isles
  John Bird (Oxford)
  American History Research Seminar

Friday 31 January 2025 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Folksongs and Inclusion in Early Modernity: A Comparative Study
  Leigh Jenco (LSE)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Tuesday 4 February 2025 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - "Harlem Interdit": Paris-Match and European Uses of Harlem, c.1964-c.1975
  Andrew Fearnley (Manchester)
  American History Research Seminar

Friday 7 February 2025 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

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

Tuesday 11 February 2025 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Glow Boys: Temporary Workers and the Making of Atomic Capitalism
  Tom Bishop (Lincoln)
  American History Research Seminar

Friday 14 February 2025 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Medicine for Ghosts: Visions, Possessions, and Medical Exchange in Early Modern Southeast Asia
  Tara Alberts (York)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Friday 21 February 2025 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - The global nature of Mughal Early Modernity
  Azfar Moin (Austin, Texas)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Tuesday 25 February 2025 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Rediscovering James W.C. Pennington, Black Reformed Minister and Activist
  Jan Stievermann (Heidelberg)
  American History Research Seminar

Friday 28 February 2025 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Imperialism and Ethnology: The Ottoman Case
  Giancarlo Casale (EUI)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Tuesday 4 March 2025 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - The Cost of Sympathy: Perceptions of Suffering in the New York City Draft Riots
  Joanna Cohen (Queen Mary)
  American History Research Seminar

Tuesday 11 March 2025 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Black American leisure time 20th century
  Tiffany M Gill (Rutgers)
  American History Research Seminar