Tuesday 5 November 2024 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - The political lives of Information: Information and invisibilisation in digital India
  Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Rethinking Europe’s East-West Divide: Who will lead the EU?
  Mihail Chiru (Oxford School of Global and Area Studies), Kristi Raik (International Centre for Defence and Security), Zselyke Csaky (Centre for European Reform), Hussein Kassim (University of Warwick)
  European Studies Seminar
• 17:15 - Conflict and citizenship: the challenges of Palestinian-Arabs in Israel
  Professor Sarab Abu-Rabia-Queder (Ben-Gurion University)

Thursday 7 November 2024 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Geographic Knowledges, Cartographic Technologies, and the Early Cold War in Latin America
  Julie Gibbings (University of Edinburgh)
  Latin American History Seminar

Friday 8 November 2024 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 - Long shadow of the Holodomor
  Dr Daria Mattingly (University of Chichester)
  RESC Monday Seminar

Tuesday 12 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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
• 17:00 - Princess Akiko of Mikasa – A Tale of the Royal and Imperial Costumes: The Trajectory of UK-Japan Relations
  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

Thursday 14 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Panel Discussion: Rethinking Latin American Independence in the Twenty-First Century
  Marcela Echeverri, Anthony McFarlane, Kirsten Schultz, Francisco A Ortega, Cristina Soriano
  Latin American History Seminar

Friday 15 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - The Charismatic Paradigm and Modernist Muslim Thought
  Registration required for online attendance
  Teena Purohit (Boston University)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminars
• 16:00 - The Charismatic Paradigm and Modernist Muslim Thought
  Teena Purohit (Boston University)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 17:00 - Ukrainian nationalists’ propaganda in western parts of Ukraine at the end of World War II and after: OUN-B and UPA, 1944–1953
  Dr Stanislav Tumis (Charles University, Prague)
  RESC Monday Seminar

Tuesday 19 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Book Talk: Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir
  Omer Aijazi (Manchester)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Climate politics and public support for green transition in Europe
  Liam Beiser-McGrath (London School of Economics)
  European Studies Seminar

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

• 17:00 - God's Man in Iraq: The Life and Leadership of Grand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani
  Sajad Jiyad
  Book Talks
• 17:00 - Latin America in Catholicism’s Global Cold War
  Daniel L McDonald (Oxford), Jaime Pensado (University of Notre Dame), Simon Unger (Fribourg)
  Latin American History Seminar

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

• 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
• 17:30 - Book Talk: The Trial that Shook Britain: How a Court Martial Hastened Acceptance of Indian Independence
  Ashis Ray (Journalist)
  Asian Studies Centre seminars and events

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

• 14:00 - Visual Storyboards: Ethnographic Insights of an Experimental Research Design and the Lives-Livelihoods of Vulnerable Communities Across India and Cambodia...
  TBA
  Asian Studies Centre seminars and events
• 17:00 - Assembling the 'Palace of Nations': borderland federalisms and internationalist imaginations between Tsarism and Soviet power, 1917-1922
  Dr Marcel Garboś (University of Aberdeen)
  RESC Monday Seminar

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
• 17:00 - The new politics of Poland
  KOLAKOWSKI SEMINAR
  Jarosław Kuisz (Kultura Liberalna), Eli Gateva (DPIR, Oxford)
  European Studies Seminar
• 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 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - The political economy of land data assemblages in informal settlements (Mathare & Kwa Bullo)
  Hybrid event: Please use webinar registration link below.
  Smith Ouma (Manchester)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

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

• 17:00 - XIth Guerra Seminar: El rol y la participación de las mujeres en la esfera pública en Bolivia del final de la guerra del Chaco a la Revolución Nacional (1935-1952)
  Maria Elvira Alvarez-Gimenez (CY Cergy Paris University)
  Latin American History Seminar

Friday 29 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:30 - Joint Workshop with the Department of Sociology: Dispute Resolution: Exploring Criminal, Informal, and Alternative Perspectives
  TBA
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
• 17:00 - Gaza – a war on healthcare
  Professor Nick Maynard (University of Oxford), Dr Debbie Harrington (Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust), Dr Rebecca Ingliss (University of Oxford)
  Friday Seminars

Monday 2 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Soviet Sixties: politics and society in the USSR, 1953-68
  Dr Rob Hornsby (University of Leeds)
  RESC Monday 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
• 17:00 - Russia’s war against Ukraine: Consequences for South East Europe
  IN COOPERATION WITH SEESOX AND THE UNIVERSITY CONSORTIUM, OXFORD
  Kyril Drezov (Keele University), Maxim Samorukov (Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center), Julie Newton (St Antony’s College, Oxford), Vuk Vuksanovic (LSE)
  European Studies Seminar

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

• 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 - New Culture for the New Man: Quimantú and the educational cartoon in Chile, 1970-1973
  Stefan Rinke (Freie Universität Berlin)
  Latin American History Seminar