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
• 17:30 - The Boundaries of Humanity Reading Group
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Medical Humanities

Wednesday 30 April 2025

• 14:00 - Medical Humanities Early Career and DPhil Writing Group
  TBA
  Oxford Medical Humanities
• 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

Friday 2 May 2025

• 14:00 - Early Career Workshop for Global Early Modern Intellectual History
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Seminar in Early Modern Global Intellectual History
• 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

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
• 14:00 - Medical Humanities Early Career and DPhil Writing Group
  TBA
  Oxford Medical Humanities
• 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

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

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

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

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

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

Wednesday 28 May 2025

• 17:00 - The Origins of Perso-Islamic Courts and Empires in India
  Professor Blain Auer (University of Lausanne)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies 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

Wednesday 4 June 2025

• 17:00 - Iran’s Crisis of Governance
  Professor Anoush Ehteshami (Durham University)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

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

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