St Antony's College Events
Description: Seminars, workshops, and conferences at St Antony’s College and its regional study centres.
Talks:

Monday 28 April 2025

Russian foreign policy and role theory
Date: 28 April 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Dr Damian Strycharz (Krakow University)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Auditorium
Organiser: Professor Roy Allison (St Antony's College)
Hosts: TBA

The NHS in the age of populism: How do we fix the NHS and its productivity?
Date: 28 April 2025, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker s: Lord Markham, Matthew Taylor (Chief Executive of the NHS Confederation), Nicholas Mays (Professor of Health Policy at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)
Venue Details: Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR), St Antony's College
Hosts: TBA

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

European Defence: How can the EU best work with the UK and other non-EU states? And will it?
Date: 29 April 2025, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker s: Brendan Devlin (European Commission), Luigi Scazzieri (Centre for European Reform)
Venue: St Antony's College - North Site,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
Organiser: Julie Adams (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Timothy Garton Ash (St Antony's College)

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

Monday 5 May 2025

Ghost in the courtroom: Gender, belief, spirit possession, and the postcolonial state
Date: 5 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Saumya Saxena (OP Jindal Global University)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Old Fellows Dining Room and online on zoom
Organisers: Bhadrajee Hewage (University of Oxford), Zaki Rehman (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Russia and the changing character of conflict
Date: 5 May 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Professor Tracey German (Kings College London)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Auditorium
Organiser: Professor Roy Allison (St Antony's College)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 6 May 2025

The Modern Life of Sanskrit: An Encounter with Psychoanalysis
Date: 6 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Ananya Vajpeyi (Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser: Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

East of Empire: Egypt, India, and the World between the Wars
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 6 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Erin M.B. O’Halloran (University of Cambridge)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 12 May 2025

African Studies Annual Lecture 2025: The Becoming Technical of the Human: Race After Apartheid
Date: 12 May 2025, 15:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Premesh Lalu (University of the Western Cape)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Prof Rebekah Lee (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Navigating power shifts: Russia and the growing asymmetrical relationship with China
Date: 12 May 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Dr Marcin Kaczmarski (University of Glasgow)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Auditorium
Organiser: Professor Roy Allison (St Antony's College)
Hosts: TBA

Financial growth and regulation in the age of populism: the Financial Conduct Authority’s challenge in getting regulation right.
Date: 12 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker s: Nikhil Rathi (CEO of the FCA), Miles Celic (CEO City UK)
Venue Details: Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR), St Antony's College
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 13 May 2025

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)

Sacrificial Intimacies: The Value of Life, Labor, and Desire in Queer Kurdish Worlds
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 13 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Emrah Karakuş (LSE)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: MEC Boardroom, Kirdar Building, 68 Woodstock Road
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Maryam Alemzadeh (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

Beyond Pax Americana
Date: 13 May 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Dr Richard Haass
Venue Details: Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre
Organiser: St Antony's College
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 15 May 2025

After the End of the World: Another Season of War in South Lebanon
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 15 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Munira Khayyat (NYU Abu Dhabi)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: MEC Boardroom, Kirdar Building, 68 Woodstock Road
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Pascal Menoret (Magdalen College)

Friday 16 May 2025

Dame Zaha Hadid Mini Series – Celebrating 10 Years Of The Investcorp Building
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 16 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Michael Wolfson (Wolfson Design)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

Monday 19 May 2025

Explaining Russia’s full-scale attack on Ukraine
Date: 19 May 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Dr Elias Götz (Royal Danish Defence College)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Auditorium
Organiser: Professor Roy Allison (St Antony's College)
Hosts: TBA

Political risk in an age of populism: How does business view politics and how do boardrooms find reliable ways of understanding political movements/risk?
Date: 19 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker s: Charles Roxburgh (former Second Permanent Secretary of HM Treasury, non-executive director of Shell PLC), Malcolm Gooderham (Founder of Elgin Advisory, former Conservative Party Adviser)
Venue Details: Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR), St Antony's College
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

The World After Gaza
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 20 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Pankaj Mishra
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 23 May 2025

The Devaki Jain Lecture
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 23 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Rana Husseini (journalist and activist)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Devaki Jain (Honorary Fellow, St Anne's College)

Monday 26 May 2025

Sacred Geographies, Political Communities: Burma’s South Asian History
Date: 26 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Sana Aiyar (MIT)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Old Fellows Dining Room and online on zoom
Organisers: Bhadrajee Hewage (University of Oxford), Zaki Rehman (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Russian relations with Iran and the Gulf states and the emerging (new) world order
Date: 26 May 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Dr Diana Galeeva (Cambridge University)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Auditorium
Organiser: Professor Roy Allison (St Antony's College)
Hosts: TBA

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)

Slavery, Abolition and Islam: Debating Freedom in the Islamic Tradition
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 27 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Haroon Bashir (Markfield Institute of Higher Education)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: MEC Boardroom, Kirdar Building, 68 Woodstock Road
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Raihan Ismail (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 28 May 2025

NGOization of the Palestinian civil society post-Oslo: our community-based ways out
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 28 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker s: Dr Amal Nazzal (Birzeit University), Suheir Assad (Palestinian lawyer and activist)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: MEC Boardroom, Kirdar Building, 68 Woodstock Road
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 30 May 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 30 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Samer Abdelnour (University of Edinburgh Business School)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Amal Nazzal (Birzeit University)

Monday 2 June 2025

Russia and ASEAN in the Indo-Pacific
Date: 2 June 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Dr Paradorn Rangsimaporn (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Thailand)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Auditorium
Organiser: Professor Roy Allison (St Antony's College)
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)

States and Social Hierarchies in Kuwait and the Arab Gulf Region
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 3 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Lisa Blaydes (Stanford University)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: MEC Boardroom, Kirdar Building, 68 Woodstock Road
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Maryam Alemzadeh (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

Monday 9 June 2025

The Birth of Indian Liberalism
Date: 9 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Rahul Sagar (NYU Abu Dhabi)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Old Fellows Dining Room and online on zoom
Organisers: Bhadrajee Hewage (University of Oxford), Zaki Rehman (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 10 June 2025

Contemporary Islamic Studies seminar
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 10 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker s: Tareq Baconi (Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network), Professor Jeroen Gunning (King's College London)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Raihan Ismail (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

Thursday 12 June 2025

Dame Zaha Hadid Mini Series – Celebrating 10 Years Of The Investcorp Building
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 12 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Joseph Giovannini (Giovannini Associates)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

Monday 16 June 2025

The Bangladesh Liberation War and Mass Internment of Bengalis in (West) Pakistan, 1971-1974
Date: 16 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Ilyas Chattha (Lahore University of Management Sciences)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Old Fellows Dining Room and online on zoom
Organisers: Bhadrajee Hewage (University of Oxford), Zaki Rehman (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

This list contains talks from the following series:
African Studies Centre Research Seminars
African Studies Seminar Series
Asian Studies Centre seminars and events
ESC Core Seminar Series
European Studies Seminar
Friday Seminars
JOINT Middle East Politics & Women's Rights Research Seminar
LAC Main Seminar Series
Latin American Centre (LAC) Main Seminar Series
Latin American History Seminar
MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Middle East Centre Seminar Series
Middle East Centre Tuesday Book Launch (Book Talk)
Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
Modern South Asia Seminar
Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
Northeast Africa Forum seminar series
Oxford Centre for Global History events
RESC Monday Seminar
RESC Monday Seminar, Hilary Term 2024
South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
Southeast Asia Seminar
Southeast Asia Seminar
South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
St Antony's Looks at the World
St Antony's Visiting Parliamentary Fellowship