Wednesday 14 October 2015 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Transmission of Qur’anic Readings in Early Islam: The Curious Case of Kufa
  Dr Ramon Harvey (Cambridge Muslim College)
  Transmission of Learning in Muslim Societies

Wednesday 21 October 2015 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Unbroken Chain of Social Memory: Hadith Transmission Network
  Dr Recep Şentürk (Fatih Sultan Mehmet University)
  Transmission of Learning in Muslim Societies

Wednesday 28 October 2015 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - From Khwarazm to Cairo via Rum: Islamic learning and texts in the Turkish world of the fourteenth century
  Dr Andrew Peacock (University of St Andrews)
  Transmission of Learning in Muslim Societies

Wednesday 4 November 2015 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Modes of Education and the Transmission of Adab in the Late Medieval Muslim World
  Dr Talal Al Azem (Oxford University)
  Transmission of Learning in Muslim Societies

Wednesday 11 November 2015 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Sufis v. Tablighis: Contesting the Dargah of Shaikh Nizamuddin Awliya in the 21st Century
  Professor Bruce Lawrence (Duke University)
  Transmission of Learning in Muslim Societies

Wednesday 18 November 2015 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - How Ibn Khaldun got it all wrong: learning and writing in Bedouin society
  Professor Charles Stewart (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
  Transmission of Learning in Muslim Societies

Wednesday 25 November 2015 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Battle of Manzikert 1071: history transmitted, transformed and transfigured
  Professor Carole Hillenbrand (University of St Andrews and University of Edinburgh)
  Transmission of Learning in Muslim Societies

Wednesday 2 December 2015 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Stars at the Emperor’s Court – Michael Scotus and the Transmission of Knowledge of the Heavens in the 13th Century
  Dr Silke Ackermann (Museum of the History of Science, Oxford)
  Transmission of Learning in Muslim Societies

Friday 22 January 2016 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula in the Global Cold War
  Dr Toby Matthiesen (Sir Adam Roberts Fellow in the International Relations of the Middle East)
  The Middle East Centre - The Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies - Friday Seminar Series

Friday 29 January 2016 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Accounts of Madrassahs post 9/11: Bearings of Recent History
  Dr Mohammad Talib (Sultan bin Abdul Aziz Fellow, Islamic Centre Lecturer in the Anthropology of Muslim Societies)
  The Middle East Centre - The Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies - Friday Seminar Series

Friday 5 February 2016 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - A Wall in Bulaq, An Allegory of Mubarak
  Dr Walter Armbrust (MEC Albert Hourani Fellow)
  The Middle East Centre - The Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies - Friday Seminar Series

Friday 12 February 2016 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The Political Economy of Violence in the Middle East: What Questions Should the Social Scientist Ask?
  Dr Adeel Malik (Globe Fellow, Islamic Centre Lecturer in the Economies of Muslim Societies)
  The Middle East Centre - The Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies - Friday Seminar Series

Friday 19 February 2016 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Britain and Palestine: From Balfour to Blair
  Professor Avi Shlaim (MEC Emeritus Fellow), Richard Makepeace (Registrar, OCIS)
  The Middle East Centre - The Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies - Friday Seminar Series

Friday 26 February 2016 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Women and the 19th-Century Emergence of the Arabic Novel
  Professor Marilyn Booth (Al Saud Professor, Magdalen College)
  The Middle East Centre - The Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies - Friday Seminar Series

Friday 4 March 2016 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Contemporary Challenges for Political Islam
  Professor Tariq Ramadan (Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies, Middle East Centre)
  The Middle East Centre - The Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies - Friday Seminar Series

Friday 11 March 2016 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Arabic before the ‘Middle East’: from the Centre to the Periphery
  Dr Michael Feener (Sultan of Oman Fellow, OCIS)
  The Middle East Centre - The Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies - Friday Seminar Series

Friday 6 May 2016 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - The Odyssey of Librarianship and the Challenges of Trans-cultural Collections
  Yasmin Faghihi (Cambridge University Library and Chair, MELCom UK)
  Library Seminar Series

Friday 13 May 2016 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The Evolving Library: Collections, Connections, and Community
  Dr Sarah Thomas (Vice President, Harvard Library)
  Library Seminar Series

Friday 20 May 2016 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The Library of Alexandria, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
  Dr Ismail Serageldin (Director, Bibliotheca Alexandrina)
  Library Seminar Series

Friday 3 June 2016 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The 21st-century Researcher's Library: Balancing the Physical and the Virtual
  Alasdair Watson (Bodleian Library)
  Library Seminar Series

Friday 18 November 2016 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - The Artist and the Stone: Ethnography of an Artistic Process
  Roger Sansi-Roca (Goldsmiths, University of London)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Friday 25 November 2016 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - The Indian Village: Marx to Modi
  TBA
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Friday 2 December 2016 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - A War on People: The Drug War and the Hermeneutic Politics of Those who Resist it
  Jarett Zignon (University of Amsterdam)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Tuesday 17 January 2017 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Understanding Turkey's policy towards Syrian refugees: unpacking national and local level politics
  Dr Fulya Memişoğlu (University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Wednesday 18 January 2017 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Syria and its refugees: a historical perspective
  Professor Dawn Chatty (University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Friday 20 January 2017 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:30 - The great migration of summer 2015: trajectories, journeys and hubs
  Franck Duvell (COMPAS, Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Tuesday 24 January 2017 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Interpretation of the right to family reunification of unaccompanied asylum seeking children under international law
  Yulia Ioffe (University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Wednesday 25 January 2017 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Divided by a shared agenda: the humanitarian response to the crisis in Syria
  James Darcy (Lead consultant for the UN-commissioned Whole of Syria Review)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Friday 27 January 2017 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:30 - Chinese medical meshworks in East Africa: pots, patients and practitioners
  Professor Elisabeth Hsu (School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Tuesday 31 January 2017 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - "I had to build my way again": an anthropological exploration of struggles to build good lives in the face of war among Syrian refugee youth in Amman
  Emilie Mortensen (Aarhus University)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Wednesday 1 February 2017 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The ethics of protection in Syria
  Professor Jennifer Welsh (European University Institute)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Friday 3 February 2017 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:30 - The idea of Nepal
  Professor David Gellner (School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Tuesday 7 February 2017 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - The power of norms: protracted refugee situations and the international refugee regime
  Hugh Tuckfield (University of Sydney)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Wednesday 8 February 2017 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The struggle for Syria
  Professor Ziad Majed (American University of Paris)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Friday 10 February 2017 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:30 - Ritual and group cohesion across space and time
  Professor Harvey Whitehouse (ICEA/CAM, University of Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Tuesday 14 February 2017 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Failing to manage or managing to fail: Hungarian, Polish, and Romanian responses to the refugee crisis
  Mikolaj Pawlak (University of Warsaw)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Wednesday 15 February 2017 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Syrian trajectories: from local revolutionary actors to exiled humanitarian workers. Meanings of humanitarian action in the Syrian post-2011 context
  Dr Laura Ruiz de Elvira Carrascal (CNRS/IREMAM, France)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Friday 17 February 2017 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:30 - Climate, weather, culture
  Professor Steve Rayner (InSIS, University of Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Tuesday 21 February 2017 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Unaccompanied young migrants and refugees coming of age in the UK and Italy: pathways through immigration control and welfare regimes
  Jenny Allsopp (University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Wednesday 22 February 2017 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Writing in times of war and revolution
  Samar Yazbek (Syrian writer, Paris)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Friday 24 February 2017 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:30 - Locating the Pitt Rivers Museum
  Dr Laura Van Broekhoven (Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Tuesday 28 February 2017 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - A life suspended: impending repatriation and the temporal experience of exile along the Thai-Burma border
  Carrie Perkins (Southern Methodist University, Texas)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Wednesday 1 March 2017 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The Syrian internal displacement
  Dr Leïla Vignal (University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Friday 3 March 2017 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:30 - Pentecostal pastorhood as calling and career: migration, religion, and masculinity between Kenya and the United Kingdom
  Dr Leslie Fesenmyer (COMPAS, University of Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Tuesday 7 March 2017 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Ulrike Krause (Philipps University of Marburg)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Friday 10 March 2017 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:30 - The people left behind: how and why cultural anthropologists got it wrong
  Professor Nancy Scheper-Hughes (University of California, Berkeley)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Wednesday 26 April 2017 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Book Launch: ‘EU Asylum Policies: The Power of Strong Regulating States’
  Dr Natascha Zaun (Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford), Dr Matthias Czaika (IMI, University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Tuesday 2 May 2017 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - The Buddhist people smuggler - challenges problematic rhetoric on people smugglers
  Bodean Hedwards (Monash University)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Wednesday 3 May 2017 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Refugees and the politics of indignity
  Professor David Owen (University of Southampton)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Wednesday 10 May 2017 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Nostalgia and Legitimacy: Understanding the Externalization of European Migration Policy | Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture 2017
  Professor Thomas Spijkerboer (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Friday 12 May 2017 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:30 - Women in India's Waste Economy
  Professor Barbara Harriss-White ((Emeritus Professor of Development Studies, Oxford))
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Tuesday 16 May 2017 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Non-refoulement as a norm in international and EU law
  Jenny Poon (University of Western Ontario)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Wednesday 17 May 2017 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Should humanitarian organisations help with coerced repatriation?
  Dr Mollie Gerver (Leeds University)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Friday 19 May 2017 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Syrian Refugees In Turkey: Reception, Economy and Governance
  Sebnem Koser Akcapar (Koç University), Fulya Memişoğlu (Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford), Emre Eren Korkmaz (University of Oxford), A. Zafer Sagiroglu (Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University), Sezin Tuna (Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University), Franck Duvell (COMPAS, Oxford)
• 15:30 - Exhibiting violence and social change in Brazil
  Professor Elizabeth B. Silva (Professor of Sociology, The Open University)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Tuesday 23 May 2017 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - International refugee protection and the secondary forced displacement of Palestinian refugees
  Jasmin Fritzsche (Ruhr-University Bochum)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Wednesday 24 May 2017 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Migration governance and security in the Euro-Mediterranean space: A communicational and discoursive analysis
  Ivan Ureta (University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series
• 17:00 - British and French deprivation policies as an instance of renationalisation of citizenship
  Émilien Fargues (Sciences Po, Paris)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 25 May 2017 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - How does it feel to grow up in Oxford?
  Free, but booking essential; refreshments available; all welcome
  Various Speakers

Friday 26 May 2017 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:30 - CANCELLED: What happened to the Maoist combatants in Nepal?
  Unfortunately, this event has had to be cancelled.
  Professor Paul Jackson (School of Government and Society, University of Birmingham)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Tuesday 30 May 2017 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Rethinking Labour, Rethinking Refugee: The Untold History of Refugees and the ILO
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Evan Easton-Calabria (University of Oxford), Dr William Allen (University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Wednesday 31 May 2017 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Emerging topologies of transnational employment: ‘Posting’ Thai workers in Sweden’s wild berry industry beyond regulatory reach
  Linn Axelsson (Stockholm University)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series

Tuesday 6 June 2017 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - International Advocacy in the Digital Era: Campaigning for Refugee Rights in 2015 & 2016
  Dr Nina Hall (Hertie School of Governance)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Wednesday 7 June 2017 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - What drives migration outflows of foreign populations from Spain? Evidence from the Great Recession
  María Gutiérrez Portilla (University of Cantabria)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series

Thursday 8 June 2017 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:00 - How should we imagine Oxford’s future?
  Free, but booking essential; refreshments available; all welcome
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 13 June 2017 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - “What’s hospitality got to do with it?” Revisiting the guest discourse in the anthropology of humanitarianism
  Ann-Christin Wagner (University of Edinburgh)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Wednesday 14 June 2017 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Trade unions, agency (migrant) workers and the insiders/outsiders debate: Germany and Belgium compared
  Valeria Pulignano (KU Leuven)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series

Thursday 15 June 2017 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:00 - Fighting racism from Trump to Oxford?
  Free, but booking essential; refreshments available; all welcome
  Various Speakers

Thursday 5 October 2017 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Migration and Mobility Network 'Academic Speed-Dating' Network Lunch
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 10 October 2017 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - ‘A Baroque Jesuit and the Qur’an: the translation and commentaries of Ignazio Lomellini, SJ (1622)’
  Dr Paul Shore (Adjunct Professor of Religious Studies, Regina)

Wednesday 11 October 2017 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Data for migration and asylum policies: the realities hidden within and behind the numbers
  Ann Singleton (University of Bristol)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 12 October 2017 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - ‘The Indian story: past, present and future’
  HE Mr Y K Sinha (High Commissioner of India)

Friday 13 October 2017 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - Sustaining one another: enset, animals, and people in the southern highlands of Ethiopia
  Dr Elizabeth Ewart (University of Oxford), Dr Wolde Tadesse (University of Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Tuesday 17 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - A work in progress: a critical analysis of the Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework
  Dr Jeff Crisp (Refugee Studies Centre)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series
• 17:00 - ‘Early Islam and the birth of capitalism’
  Mr Benedikt Koehler (Historian and Former Banker)

Wednesday 18 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The constitutional right to asylum: the wave of the future in international refugee law?
  Professor Stephen Meili (University of Minnesota)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Friday 20 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - Existential Mobility, Migrant Imaginaries and Multiple Selves
  Please note the change of venue from the one previously advertised
  Professor Michael Jackson (Harvard Divinity School)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Wednesday 25 October 2017 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Livelihoods in displacement: from refugee perspectives to aid agency response
  Dr Veronique Barbelet (Overseas Development Institute)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Friday 27 October 2017 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - The Illiberal Legal Imagination: Thought Experiments in China’s Developing the World
  TBA
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024
• 17:00 - ‘State capacity, peace and development in the Middle East’
  Professor Tim Besley (LSE)

Tuesday 31 October 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Just bureaucracy? An ethnography of the unification of the registration of refugees in Kenya by Government of Keyna and UNHCR
  Claire Walkey (University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Wednesday 1 November 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Borders, boxes and disciplinary boundaries: the delineation of forced migration in research and practice
  Dr Gayle Munro (The Salvation Army)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Wednesday 8 November 2017 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Asylum and Nehru’s changing non-alignment: Tibetan refugees in India
  Ria Kapoor
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Friday 10 November 2017 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - 'If God is with us, who can be against us?' Christianity, cosmopolitics and living with difference in Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo
  Liana Chua (Brunel)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Wednesday 15 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Aquí es frontera. Transit migration and border control in southern Mexico
  Dr Simon McMahon (University of Coventry)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Friday 17 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - Thinking like a Climate? Politics and Anthropology in the Anthropocene
  Hannah Knox (UCL)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Monday 20 November 2017 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - The Market Model: Immigration Regime Variation and Convergence in 30 Countries
  Justin Gest (George Mason University)
• 13:30 - Migration and Mobility Network Early Career Researcher Away Day
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 21 November 2017 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - 'Academic Speed-Dating' Network Drinks - Keyword 'Exile'
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 22 November 2017 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The displacement paradox: good refugees, bad migrants. Where can the unwanted go? | Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture 2017
  Dr Jemilah Mahmood (IFRC)
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures

Friday 24 November 2017 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - Making Concessions: Power and Ecstasis in the Congolese rainforest
  TBA
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Tuesday 28 November 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:30 - Pew Research on Asylum Seekers in Europe and US Refugee Resettlement
  Phillip Connor (Pew Research)
• 13:00 - Roundtable discussion featuring 'Contesting expulsion' and 'The rise of reconnection'
  Jennifer Barrett (University of Oxford), Diletta Lauro (University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Wednesday 29 November 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Belgian refugees between ‘war’ and ‘peace’: trauma, transition and repatriation
  Dr Hannah Ewence (University of Chester)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 30 November 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Migration research and control in the age of big data
  Linnet Taylor (Tilburg University)
  Technology and Mobilities in Africa

Friday 1 December 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - The Promise of the (Foreign) Image: Post-Post-Internet Art from the Philippines (and other notes from the field)
  Rafael Schacter (UCL)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Thursday 7 December 2017 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:00 - Oxford Symposium on Population, Migration, and the Environment
  Dr David Coleman (Emeritus Professor of Demography; Associate Fellow, Department of Social Policy, University of Oxford.)

Monday 15 January 2018 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:45 - TORCH Migration and Mobility Network - 'Academic Speed-Dating' Network Drinks
  TBC

Wednesday 17 January 2018 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The political predicament and agency of refugees
  Dr Reuven (Ruvi) Ziegler (University of Reading)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 18 January 2018 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Knowledge Exchange, Practice and Impact: Opportunities and Challenges in a New Era for the Academy
  Kirsten Shepherd-Barr
  COMPAS seminar series: Beyond Impact? Using, Exchanging, and Communicating Migration Knowledge and Research

Friday 19 January 2018 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - Relational anatomy: bodies, materials and persons in medical education
  Dr Elizabeth Hallam (ISCA, Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Wednesday 24 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Open borders in the nineteenth century: constructing the national, the citizen and the foreigner in South America
  Dr Diego Acosta (University of Bristol)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 25 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Brokering Knowledge in Research with Refugee and Migrant Case Workers
  Sara de Jong (Research Fellow, Citizenship and Governance at The Open University), Kate Smart (Asylum Welcome, Oxford), Almas Farsi (Asylum Welcome, Oxford)
  COMPAS seminar series: Beyond Impact? Using, Exchanging, and Communicating Migration Knowledge and Research

Friday 26 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - Making rights real: fertility politics and rights activism in India
  Maya Unnithan (University of Sussex)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Tuesday 30 January 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Chinese refugee law and policy
  Dr Lili Song (University of the South Pacific)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Wednesday 31 January 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Addressing statelessness in Europe and the nexus with forced migration
  Chris Nash (European Network on Statelessness)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 1 February 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - The Politics of Evidence and Knowledge in a Polarised World
  Christina Boswell (Professor of Politics at University of Edinburgh)
  COMPAS seminar series: Beyond Impact? Using, Exchanging, and Communicating Migration Knowledge and Research

Friday 2 February 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - Studying the origins of human material culture in young children
  Dr Eva Reindl (ICEA, Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Tuesday 6 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - The health reception of children in Danish asylum centres: a qualitative study in its early phase
  Amina Barghadouch (University of Copenhagen)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Wednesday 7 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Accessing asylum in Europe: extraterritorial border controls meet refugee rights
  Dr Violeta Moreno-Lax (Queen Mary University of London)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 8 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Telling Stories to Communicate Data and Evidence
  Sunder Katwala (Director, British Future), Alan Smith OBE (Data Visualisation Editor, The Financial Times)
  COMPAS seminar series: Beyond Impact? Using, Exchanging, and Communicating Migration Knowledge and Research

Friday 9 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - Infrastructure and politics above and below the surface
  Andrew Barry (University College London)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Tuesday 13 February 2018 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - To Whom Should We Grant Asylum? Liberal Democracy and the Right to Refugeehood
  Felix Bender (Central European University)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Wednesday 14 February 2018 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Of rights and borders: human trafficking and contemporary forms of slavery in European law
  Dr Vladislava Stoyanova (Lund University)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 15 February 2018 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Interdisciplinary Approaches to Knowledge Exchange and Migration
  Professor Sarah Harper (Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, University of Oxford), Sundeep Lidher (Project Researcher, ‘Our Migration Story’ Runnymede Trust)
  COMPAS seminar series: Beyond Impact? Using, Exchanging, and Communicating Migration Knowledge and Research

Friday 16 February 2018 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - Divine text, national language, and their publics: arguing an Indonesian Qur’an
  Webb Keane (Michigan University)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Tuesday 20 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - The situation of refugees in Hungary after 2015
  Felix Bender (Central European University)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Wednesday 21 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The child in international refugee law
  Dr Jason Pobjoy (Blackstone Chambers)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 22 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Engaging with Policymakers at the City Level
  Max Nathan (Senior Birmingham Fellow in Regional Economic Development at Birmingham Business School), Andrew Carter (Chief Executive, Centre for Cities )
  COMPAS seminar series: Beyond Impact? Using, Exchanging, and Communicating Migration Knowledge and Research

Friday 23 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - Migration and the mapping of global danger
  This seminar has been CANCELLED
  Ruben Andersson (QEH, Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Tuesday 27 February 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - The impact of Congolese refugees on social cohesion and labour market outcomes in Uganda
  Jana Kuhnt (University of Goettingen)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Wednesday 28 February 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The IDP in international law: debates, developments and prospects
  Dr David James Cantor (Refugee Law Initiative)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 1 March 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - A Living Lab Methodology for Evaluating Innovation in Asylum Seeker Reception: The Utrecht Refugee Launchpad
  Caroline Oliver (Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Roehampton)
  COMPAS seminar series: Beyond Impact? Using, Exchanging, and Communicating Migration Knowledge and Research

Friday 2 March 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - Electrifying Anthropology: current thinking about energy and anthropology
  This event has been cancelled due to the weather conditions
  Simone Abram (University of Durham)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Wednesday 7 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - No country of asylum: 'legitimizing' Lebanon's rejection of the 1951 Refugee Convention
  Professor Maja Janmyr (University of Oslo)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 8 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Beyond Impact? Provocations for Future Research, Practice, and Engagement
  Dr Sarah Spencer CBE (COMPAS, University of Oxford), Tony McEnery (Interim Chief Executive, ESRC), Paul Cairney (Professor of Politics and Public Policy, University of Stirling)
  COMPAS seminar series: Beyond Impact? Using, Exchanging, and Communicating Migration Knowledge and Research

Friday 9 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - Against ontology: experience and the Human Sciences
  Scott Lash (COMPAS, Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Tuesday 24 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Ayat Hamdan (University of Exeter)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Tuesday 1 May 2018 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Unravelling memories of family separation among Sri Lankan Tamils resettled in Australia, 1983-2000
  Niro Kandasamy (University of Melbourne)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Wednesday 2 May 2018 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Book launch for ‘Syria: The Making and Unmaking of a Refuge State’
  Professor Dawn Chatty (University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 3 May 2018 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Three perspectives on Nigerian migration
  May-Len Skilbrei (University of Oslo), Erlend Paasche (University of Oslo), Jørgen Carling (Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO))

Friday 4 May 2018 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:15 - A petition to kill: efficacious appeals against big cats in India
  Dr Nayanikur Mathur (ISCA, Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Tuesday 8 May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - The Fourth Pillar? Education and forced migration
  Dr Jacqueline Mosselson (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Wednesday 9 May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Iraqi Migrants in Syria: The Crisis before the Storm
  Dr Sophia Hoffmann (Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Friday 11 May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:15 - Why are there always Candomblés? Situated knowledges of miscegenation and syncretism in Brazil
  Dr Marcio Goldman (National Museum, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Tuesday 15 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Defining political human security: the case of Rohingya refugees in India
  Ashvina Patel (Southern Methodist University)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Wednesday 16 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Syrian labour in the Turkish economy
  Emre Eren Korkmaz (University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Friday 18 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:15 - The seven moral rules found all around the world
  Please note the change of venue to 64 Banbury Road
  Oliver Scott Curry (ICEA, Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Tuesday 22 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Comparative perspectives on the search and rescue of asylum seekers at sea
  Dr Daniel Ghezelbash (Macquarie Law School)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Wednesday 23 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Islamic Traditions of Refuge in the Crises of Iraq and Syria
  Dr Tahir Zaman (University of Sussex)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 24 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:30 - School of Europeanness: Tolerance and Other Lessons in Political Liberalism in Latvia
  Various Speakers

Friday 25 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:15 - The grey area: fascism between the general and the particular
  Paolo Heywood (University of Cambridge)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Wednesday 30 May 2018 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Outsourcing Border Control: The Politics and Practice of Contracted Visa Policy in Morocco
  Dr Federica Infantino (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 7 June 2018 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - The Utrecht Refugee Launchpad: Researching Innovation in Asylum Seeker Reception
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 10 October 2018 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - To be or not to be: questioning the value of refugee status
  Dr Georgia Cole (University of Cambridge)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 11 October 2018 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - Immigrant franchise and immigration policy: Evidence from the Progressive Era
  Costanza Biavaschi (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

Friday 12 October 2018 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:15 - Development: a brief adventure
  Professor Stephen Gudeman (University of Minnesota)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Tuesday 16 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Ransom tales: the refugee as storyteller
  Dr Carrie Dawson (Dalhousie University)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Thursday 18 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - Numbers, narratives, neither, both? How different kinds of message evidence impact public perceptions about immigration in Great Britain
  William L Allen (COMPAS, University of Oxford)

Friday 19 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:15 - On artefacts, agency and practices - a relational perspective on planning
  Monika Kurath (ETH Zurich)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Tuesday 23 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - What digitalization of humanitarian operations looks like: data, maps and new technologies in Zaatari refugee camp, Jordan
  Léa Macias (EHESS (Paris))
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Wednesday 24 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Asylum after empire: postcolonial legacies in the politics of asylum seeking
  Dr Lucy Mayblin (University of Warwick)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 25 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - Is it ethnicity or religion? Evidence from a cross-national field experiment on labour market discrimination
  Mariña Fernández-Reino (COMPAS, University of Oxford)

Friday 26 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:15 - Precolonial Microbiome: how microbiologists access anthropology museums to contribute to the debate on restitution
  Frederick Keck (Musée du quai Branly)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Tuesday 30 October 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - A spatial model of internal displacement and forced migration
  Jon Echevarria (University of Basque Country)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Wednesday 31 October 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The business of modern slavery: forced migration and forced labour in a failed state
  Brad Blitz (Middlesex University London)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 1 November 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - Immigration and well-being: A neighbourhood-level analysis
  Corrado Giulietti (University of Southampton)

Friday 2 November 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:15 - Trials of the everyday: spaces of global health in South Africa
  Dr Michelle Pentecost (King's College London)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Tuesday 6 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - The Dublin IV recast: A new institutionalist approach to explaining policy continuity
  Tamara Tubakovic (University of Melbourne)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Wednesday 7 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - International society and the risk of statelessness
  Dr Kelly Staples (University of Leicester)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 8 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - National institutions and the politics of free movement in the European Union
  Dr Martin Ruhs (European University Institute (EUI))
• 14:00 - Speed-Geeking Migration Challenge
  Various Speakers

Friday 9 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:15 - Militant masks: youth and insecurity in the Niger Delta
  Dr David Pratten (University of Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Tuesday 13 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - When does harmonization backfire? Understanding the conditions that transformed the Family Reunification Directive into a tool that protects migrants and refugees' rights in the Netherlands
  Virginia Passalacqua (European University Institute)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Wednesday 14 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Solidarity, vulnerability, and the labour of refugee activism
  Dr Jonathan Darling (Durham University)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 15 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - Selective emigration after Germany's failed 1848 revolutions and the rise of the Nazi Party
  Toman Barsbai (University of St. Andrews)

Friday 16 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:15 - Care and community in contemporary Italy: exploring networks and digital-visual practices
  Dr Shireen Walton (University College London)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Tuesday 20 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Renewable energy in humanitarian contexts and the UN Global Plan of Action: embedding research into international policy?
  Sarah Rosenberg-Jansen (University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Wednesday 21 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Kindertransport: Contesting memory
  Dr Jennifer Craig-Norton (University of Southampton)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 22 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - Immigration Enforcement, Police Trust and Domestic Violence
  Esther Arenas-Arroyo (COMPAS, University of Oxford)

Friday 23 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:15 - ‘Don’t Bury the Famine Dead’: how humanitarian intervention killed the most vulnerable in Ajiep, South Sudan, in 1998
  Jok Madut Jok (SUNY Upstate Medical University)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Tuesday 27 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - The Rohingyas in Myanmar and Bangladesh: A Case of “Subhuman”
  Professor Nasir Uddin (Chittagong University)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Wednesday 28 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Border rescue
  Dr Kieran Oberman (University of Edinburgh)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Friday 30 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:15 - Social life of a license: caste and everyday struggles for work legitimacies in India
  Dr Bhawani Buswala (University of Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Monday 14 January 2019 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - China in the Global reproduction migration order: Through the lens of international student mobility
  Peidong Yang (National Institute of Education, Singapore)

Tuesday 15 January 2019 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Employment barriers of Syrian refugees in Lebanon
  Dr Saja Al Zoubi (University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Wednesday 16 January 2019 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Transnationalism, return visits, home and belonging: second generation from refugee backgrounds
  Professor Alice Bloch (University of Manchester)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - "Becoming Muslim”: The archaeology of Islamisation and trade in Eastern Ethiopia
  Professor Timothy Insoll (Exeter)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 17 January 2019 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Book Seminar - Islam in international relations: politics and paradigms
  Various Speakers

Friday 18 January 2019 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - Forensic Anthropology and its role in identifying the missing in humanitarian and criminal contexts
  Dr Nicholas Márquez-Grant (Cranfield Forensic Institute)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Monday 21 January 2019 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Intimate geopolitics: Migration, marriage and citizenship across Chinese borders
  Elena Barabantseva (University of Manchester)

Wednesday 23 January 2019 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Refugees and the UK labour market
  Dr Carlos Vargas-Silva (COMPAS, University of Oxford), Dr Isabel Ruiz (Harris Manchester College / Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Friday 25 January 2019 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - Adding cosmo to geo: climate change as a new matrix of animation
  Olga Ulturgasheva (University of Manchester)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Monday 28 January 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Grandparenting migration: Reproduction, care circulations and care ethics across borders
  Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho (National University of Singapore)

Tuesday 29 January 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Why Muslim men also care: ethnographic perspectives on ways of loving and caring among young Syrian men in exile in Amman
  Emilie Mortensen (Aarhus University)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Wednesday 30 January 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Building inclusive cities: emerging learning from a knowledge exchange with UK cities
  Jacqueline Broadhead (COMPAS, University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - TBC
  Professor Hugh Kennedy (SOAS)
• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Professor Hugh Kennedy (SOAS)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Friday 1 February 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - The socio-genesis of a guild of “digital technologies” justifying transnational interoperable databases in the name of security and border purposes: a reframing of the field of security professionals?
  Didier Bigo (King's College London)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Monday 4 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Investment migration & social reproduction: The case of recent patterns of migration from China
  Gracia Liu-Farrer (Waseda University, Japan)

Tuesday 5 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Solidarity as co-responsibility: EU member states and the pursuit of justice in the field of refugee protection
  Eleonora Milazzo (European University Institute)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Wednesday 6 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - From pledges to implementation: exploring local government responses for urban refugees in Ethiopia
  Annabel Mwangi (UNHCR Ethiopia)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - History in tables: Muʿīn al-Dīn Naṭanzī's “synoptic account” of the Timurid history and its complete manuscript
  Dr İlker Evrim Binbaş (Bonn)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Friday 8 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - The Body in the archive. Embodied encounters with human remains in the museum
  Gemma Angel (School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Monday 11 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Investment migration & social reproduction: The case of recent patterns of migration from China
  Sean Wang (Max Planck Institute, Berlin)

Tuesday 12 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - What is owed to refugees when attributing responsibilities to states in institutionalized responsibility sharing regimes?
  Lukas Dziedzic (Tilburg University)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Wednesday 13 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Urban refugee economies in Ethiopia
  Professor Alison Brown (Cardiff University), Dr Peter Mackie (Cardiff University)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The Mongol empire and Islamisation
  Professor Andrew Peacock (St Andrews)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Friday 15 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - Making and Un-making precarious homes among women activists in Spain
  Please note the change of title from the one previously advertised.
  Ana Gutierrez Garza (School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Monday 18 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) and medical travel
  Andrea Whittaker (Monash University, Australia)

Tuesday 19 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Network analysis techniques for refugee and forced migration research
  Dr Alex Tasker (University of Sussex)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Wednesday 20 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The accidental city of Kakuma, Kenya: humanitarian urbanism and the development of the refugee camp environment
  Dr Bram J Jansen (Wageningen University)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - British-Islamic identity: third-generation Bangladeshis from East London
  Dr Aminul Hoque (Goldsmiths)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Friday 22 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - Adaptive radiation and evolution of Neotropical primates
  Thomas Puschel Rouliez (School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Monday 25 February 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Child-rearing as global security strategies: Parenting, class, and im/mobility in Taiwan and the US
  Pei-Chia Lan (National Taiwan University)

Wednesday 27 February 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Sudanese constellations of home: refugee NGOs, social networks and urban homemaking in Cairo
  Dr Anita Fábos (Clark University)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The making of Ottoman kingship at the dawn of empire
  Dr Christopher Markiewicz (University of Birmingham)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Friday 1 March 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - Knowing cancer in India
  Carlo Caduff (King's College London)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Monday 4 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Educational migration: Youth, time and transformation
  Francis Collins (University of Waikato, New Zealand)

Tuesday 5 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Who illegally migrates and why? Descriptive evidence from the Comoros archipelago
  Jules Gazeaud (CERDI)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Wednesday 6 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Exploring gendered ‘vulnerability’: Syrian refugee men and humanitarianism in urban Jordan
  Dr Lewis Turner (Arnold Bergstraesser Institute)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The Qur’an in English: challenges and choices for Surat an-Nisa
  Professor Bruce Lawrence (Duke University), Professor Miriam Cooke (Duke)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Friday 8 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - Disaggregating the commodity crisis: towards an ethnography of maritime commerce at the port of Lobito (Angola)
  Jon Schubert (University of Brunel)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Monday 11 March 2019 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Global householding, care migration and the question of gender inequality
  Brenda Yeoh (National University of Singapore)

Monday 29 April 2019 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - 2019 Oxford Graduate Conference in Political Theory Keynote Address: Irregular Migration, Adverse Possession and the Justification of the Right to Exclude
  Lea Ypi (LSE)

Thursday 2 May 2019 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:30 - Islamization and the formation of a vernacular tradition: Muslim funerary monuments in 15th-century northern Sumatra
  R. Michael Feener (Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Tuesday 7 May 2019 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Parental absence and preference development in left-behind children: an experimental study in rural China
  Please note that the advertised date and time submitted to the printed Gazette is incorrect. 7 May, 5pm is the correct date and time.
  Professor Yexin Zhou (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 8 May 2019 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Civil solidarity and the hunt for undocumented migrants. Two Belgian case studies
  Dr Robin Vandevoordt (University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Friday 10 May 2019 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:15 - Anthropology Departmental Seminar: Title to be announced
  Nicholas Thomas (University of Cambridge)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Tuesday 14 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Single in the City: Women, Migration and Domestic Work in India
  TBA
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 15 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Mobility economies: immobility, accumulation and migration in Libya
  Dr Marthe Achtnich (University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - 'What a "Textual Forensics" Might Tell us about How Arabic Writers Conserved the Past (ca. 900-1200)'
  Sarah Savant
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 16 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:30 - Constructing Who is Japanese: A Study of Social Markers of Acceptance in Japan and Beyond
  Dr Adam Komisarof (Keio University)

Friday 17 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:15 - To lead by obeying: how cocoa growers' struggle for radical democracy became institutionalized
  Thomas Grisaffi (University of Reading)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Monday 20 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Enlightenment and migration politics
  Iwan-Michelangelo D’Aprile (Potsdam)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Tuesday 21 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Conceptualizing forced migration: beyond the open orders debate
  Laura Santi Amantini (University of Genoa)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Wednesday 22 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Endurance and involuntary return to Senegal
  Dr Anne-Line Rodriguez (Queen Mary University of London)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - 'Escaping the Nafs in Socialist Egypt: Abd al-Halim Mahmud’s Search for a Sufi Master'
  Hatsuki Aishima
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Friday 24 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:15 - Bodies of ice: Mount Everest as a mortuary landscape
  Jonathan Westaway (University of Central Lancashire)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Tuesday 28 May 2019 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Intergenerational impacts of IDPs on children’s early childhood development in host communities: evidence from Burundi
  Soazic Elise Wang Sonne (United Nations University in Maastricht)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Wednesday 29 May 2019 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Sonopolis: Sound, Citizenship, and Migrant Activisms in Athens
  Dr Tom Western (University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - '"A most thrilling drama hastening to a tragic end": The Spectacle of Ottoman Decline in Early Twentieth-Century India'
  Faridah Zaman
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Friday 31 May 2019 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:15 - Infrastructures of desire: Eros and urbanism in Nigeria's capital
  Rudi Gaudio (Purchase College, SUNY)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Tuesday 4 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - What would an ethical, but feasible, response to the refugee crisis look like? An exploration
  Adam Dalgleish (University of Auckland)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Friday 7 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:15 - Taxes as a route to independence from the state: rejecting a fiscal model of reciprocity in peri-urban Bolivia
  Miranda Johannson
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Tuesday 11 June 2019 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - From emergency shelters to dwellings: on the role of refugees as architects and the construction of dwellings in Zaatari Camp, Jordan
  Ayham Dalal (Habitat Unit)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Wednesday 12 June 2019 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - 'Another Genealogy of Critique: On Islam and Reason'
  Irfan Ahmad
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 12 September 2019 (20th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Many more to come?
  Rainer Műnz (Adviser on Migration and Demography to the EPSC)

Wednesday 16 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The political economy of refugee self-reliance
  Prof Alexander Betts (University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 17 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - The incomplete local turn of integration policies in France
  Anouk Flamant (INSHEA)

Tuesday 22 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Civil society and the everyday politics of the global refugee regime: early lessons from the Local Engagement Refugee Research Network (LERRN)
  Prof James Milner (Carleton University)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Wednesday 23 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Postcolonial boundaries, self-determination and the Rohingya refugee crisis
  Dr Mohammad Shahabuddin (University of Birmingham)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 24 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - 'Victims' inclusion or immigration enforcement? City measures on safe reporting of crime for undocumented migrants in the USA
  Nicola Delvino (COMPAS, University of Oxford)

Friday 25 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:15 - Ethnography inside out: notes for an anthropology of nefarious systems
  Ruben Andersson (QEH, Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Tuesday 29 October 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Localized integration: Syrian refugee experience with German bureaucracy
  Morgan Etzel (Ludwig Maximilian’s University Munich)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series
• 17:00 - Migration into and out of the UK after Brexit
  Madeleine Sumption (The Migration Observatory, University of Oxford), Zovanga Kone (COMPAS, University of Oxford), Carlos Vargas-Silva (COMPAS, University of Oxford), Rob McNeil (The Migration Observatory, University of Oxford)

Thursday 31 October 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - The role of academia in agenda and policy making at the local level: the city working group model
  Jacqueline Broadhead (COMPAS, University of Oxford)

Friday 1 November 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:15 - The axial age, global history, and anthropology
  Alan Strathern (Brasenose)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Monday 4 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:30 - Cause Lawyering with the grain? Immigration and Refugee Lawyers in Russia
  Agnieszka Kubal (Lecturer in Sociology, University College London)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Tuesday 5 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - The Returns Network: Journalism, academia and measuring post-deportation risks
  Daniel Howden (Lighthouse Reports)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series
• 14:00 - Planning for impact in international development research projects
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 6 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - A human right to international freedom of movement
  Dr Sarah Fine (King's College London)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 7 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - French Cities membership in European migration networks: understanding the (dis)involvement in transnational city networks
  Aisling Healy (Triangle, University of St Etienne)

Friday 8 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:15 - Geographies of anticipatory socialisation: rehearsing diplomacy in the interstate margins
  Fiona McConnell (University of Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Tuesday 12 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Member States contribution to refugee protection provision in the EU: a public goods perspective
  Diego Caballero Vélez (Sant´Anna School of Advanced Studies)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Wednesday 13 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Humanitarian wearables and digital bodies: problems of gifts and labour
  Professor Kristin Sandvik (University of Oslo)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 14 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - Transforming intercultural integration internationally: the example of Intercultural Cities
  Anne Bathily (ECRE)

Friday 15 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:15 - Multisensory anthropology: prospects and impediments
  David Howes (Concordia)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Tuesday 19 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Seeking protection from a place of refuge: refugees as the modern day Tantalus
  Dr Kate Ogg (Australian National University)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Wednesday 20 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Continuums of exploitation – the legal framework on trafficking in persons
  Professor Siobhan Mullally (National University of Ireland, Galway)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 21 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - Mediterranean Thinking in migration studies: reassessing the role of Mediterranean cities
  Ricard Zapata-Barrero (Universitat Pompeo Fabra, Barcelona)

Friday 22 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:15 - Aspiring for elsewhere: education, migration and mobility in rural Chattisgarh
  Peggy Froerer (Brunel)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Friday 29 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:15 - What a diary can proffer. A light touch on a serious subject?
  CANCELLED AND WILL BE RE-ARRANGED
  Pamela Reynolds (JHU Emerita)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Tuesday 3 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Bargains of inclusion: why some states give refugees the right to work
  CANCELLED
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Prof Alexander Betts (University of Oxford), Dr Olivier Sterck (University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Wednesday 4 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Third World Approaches to International Law: A retrospective with some implications for refugee and migration law
  Professor Antony Anghie (University of Utah)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 5 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - Cities and the search for a governance of mobility
  Colleen Thouez (Open Society Foundations ), Cécile Riallant (International Organisation for Migration), Catherine Wihtol de Wenden (Science Po, Paris)

Friday 6 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:15 - Granting the future? The temporality of cash transfers in the South African countryside
  Bernard Dubbeld
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Monday 9 December 2019 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:45 - What asylum and refugee policies do Europeans want?
  Dr Martin Ruhs (European University Institute (EUI))

Wednesday 22 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Kurdish women’s knowledge of the state: from the guerrilla to the refugee camp
  Dr Dilar Dirik (University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Friday 24 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - Towards an epistemology of international development
  David Ludwig (Wageningen University & Research)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Tuesday 28 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Externalization and the erosion of refugee protection: an initial enquiry
  Dr Jeff Crisp (Refugee Studies Centre)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Friday 31 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - Limitations on the formation of culture in wild, desert-living baboon
  Alecia Carter (University College London)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Wednesday 5 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Degradation by design: corrosive control in the lives of women seeking asylum in bordered Britain
  Dr Victoria Canning (University of Bristol)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Friday 7 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - How do mammals respond to changing environments? Perspectives from movement ecology
  TBA
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Wednesday 12 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Colonial mobilities and global inequality: why European settlers ought not to be regarded as migrants
  Professor Gurminder K Bhambra (University of Sussex)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Friday 14 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - Pluralising science in the Anthropocene: the role of ethnobiology
  Laura Rival (University of Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Tuesday 18 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Bargains of Inclusion: Why Some States Give Refugees the Right to Work
  Prof Alexander Betts (University of Oxford), Dr Olivier Sterck (University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Wednesday 19 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Forced migration in the United Kingdom: women’s journeys to escape domestic violence
  Dr Janet Bowstead (Royal Holloway, University of London)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Friday 21 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - Cancelled, to be rescheduled: Climate change as a driver of hominin evolution
  This talk has been cancelled and will be rescheduled.
  René Bobe (Oxford & Gorongosa National Park)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Tuesday 25 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Multilocality and Refugee-Nomad Interchange in Northern Mauritania
  Matthew Porges (RSC Student Visitor)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Wednesday 26 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - SEMINAR CANCELLED: An intersectional approach to policy and decision making on SOGI asylum claims in Europe
  Professor Nuno Ferreira (University of Sussex)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 27 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Refugia: Book Launch
  Professor Robin Cohen (Emerotus Professor of Development Studies), Nicholas Van Hear (University of Oxford), Dace Dzenovska (University of Oxford)

Friday 28 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - Current and future approaches to improving human-predator relations
  Simon Pooley (Birbeck, University of London)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Tuesday 3 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Rohingya Refugee Crisis: Examination of the Causes of Persecution
  Mohammad Didarul Islam (University of Leeds), Ayesha Siddikha (University of Dhaka)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series

Wednesday 4 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - SEMINAR CANCELLED | Bordering
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Georgie Wemyss (University of East London), Professor Nira Yuval-Davis (University of East London)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 5 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Foreign Policy in a Fracturing World
  The Rt Hon Jack Straw (Foreign Secretary, 2001-2006)

Friday 6 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - The origins of Amazonian landscapes
  Please note that this seminar is different from the one previously advertised.
  José Iriarte (University of Exeter)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024
• 17:00 - Exiled: The Plight of Rohingya Refugees | Screening and Discussion with the Director
  Shahida Tulaganova (Director)
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures

Wednesday 11 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - SEMINAR CANCELLED | Access to SGBV protection services for Syrian and Palestinian refugees in Lebanon
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Menaal Munshey (University of Cambridge)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Friday 13 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - CANCELLED: Plants crossing borders: between local communities and international law: how ontologies help plant data to cross borders
  This lecture has been cancelled.
  Sabrina Leonelli (University of Exeter)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Wednesday 6 May 2020 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Global agenda setting, from the bottom up: the Global Refugee-Led Network (GRN)
  This seminar will be held online via Zoom
  Mustafa Alio, Shaza Al Rihawi, Anila Noor, Najeeba Wazefadost
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Wednesday 13 May 2020 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Without recognition, without assistance: Refugee-led responses in urban contexts
  This seminar will be held online via Zoom
  Bahati Ghislain, Robert Hakiza, Janemary Ruhundwa
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Wednesday 20 May 2020 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - New partnerships: How international organisations can support refugee-led organisations
  This seminar will be held online, via Zoom
  Dana Al Anzy, Edmund Page
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Friday 22 May 2020 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Viral Thought: Epidemics in History and Covid 19
  Contact kate.atherton@anthro.ox.ac.uk to register interest and receive the link
  Dilip Menon (Witswatersrand)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Wednesday 27 May 2020 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Rapid response to funding gaps: Philanthropic support for refugee-led initiatives
  This seminar will be held online, via Zoom
  Anna Crowley, Annemieke de Jong, Mingo Heiduk
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Friday 29 May 2020 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Emptiness as a Social Formation and as an Analytic
  Please contact kate.atherton@anthro.ox.ac.uk to receive the link
  Dace Dzenovska (University of Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Wednesday 10 June 2020 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Limited room to manoeuvre: Refugee-led responses in camp settings
  This seminar will be held online, via Zoom
  Nhial Deng, Innocent Magambi, Samuel Ouma Mijwang’a
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Wednesday 17 June 2020 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Affecting change from within: Refugees in international humanitarian organisations
  This seminar will be held online, via Zoom
  Joelle Hangi, Bahati Ernestine Hategekimana, Foni Joyce
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Wednesday 14 October 2020 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - AI: simulation and dissimulation
  Dr Yaqub Chaudhary (Cambridge Muslim College)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 15 October 2020 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Intersections and Dissonances between Race, Ethnicity and Migration Studies
  Register in advance for these seminars: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYkfu-srjguGt3MRDrnW8QTtSMnkK20Vf_4 (Registration is free)
  Various Speakers
• 17:00 - Special Seminar: Saudi Arabia and the rise and fall of Political Islam
  Special Seminars are held on Thursdays at 17:00
  Professor Bernard Haykel (Princeton)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Friday 16 October 2020 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - "Ten thousand Millions of Fires kindling in my Head": Suicide, Masculinity and the "Wild" Body in England, 1750-1850
  Ella Sbaraini (Cambridge)
  History of the Gendered Body
• 15:00 - Why Divination? Cultural Attractors and Strategic Interaction
  Joining instructions: https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/why-divination-cultural-attractors-and-strategic-interaction
  Pascal Boyer ((Washington University in St. Louis))
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Wednesday 21 October 2020 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Islamist transformations after the Arab Uprisings: Tunisia’s Ennahda Movement
  Dr Rory McCarthy (Durham)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Deporting Extremists: A Qualified Defence
  Rutger Birnie (European University Institute)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Friday 23 October 2020 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Devoted Actors and the Spiritual Dimensions of Human Conflict
  Teams joining link will be available here: https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/devoted-actors-and-the-spiritual-dimensions-of-human-conflict
  Scott Atran (CNRS Paris; Centre for the Resolution of Intractable Conflict, Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Wednesday 28 October 2020 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Archives and archival sensibilities in medieval Arabic Historiography
  Dr Fozia Bora (Leeds)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Carceral Junctions - Stuckness and Connectedness in Camps
  Simon Turner (University of Copenhagen)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 29 October 2020 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Race, Ethnicity and Migration: Critical Perspectives from the Global North and Global South
  Register in advance for these seminars: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYkfu-srjguGt3MRDrnW8QTtSMnkK20Vf_4 (Registration is free)
  Suraj Yengde (Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University)

Friday 30 October 2020 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - The Secret Life of Social Norms: From Nations to Neurons
  Teams joining link will be added here: https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/the-secret-life-of-social-norms-from-nations-to-neurons
  TBA
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Wednesday 4 November 2020 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Money, markets and monarchies: The Gulf Cooperation Council and political economy of the Middle East
  Dr Adam Hanieh (SOAS)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Unlivable Life: Ordinary Disasters and the Atmosphere of Crisis in Haiti
  Greg Beckett (University of Western Ontario)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Friday 6 November 2020 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Understanding Unbelief: Across disciplines and across cultures
  The Teams joining link will be added here: https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/understanding-unbelief-across-disciplines-and-across-cultures
  Jonathan Lanman ((Queen's University Belfast))
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Wednesday 11 November 2020 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Islam, liberalism and national identity: Lessons from British Islamic institutions
  Dr Stephen H. Jones (Birmingham)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Reflecting on Refugia
  Nicholas Van Hear (University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 12 November 2020 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Race, Ethnicity and Migration across Methodologies and Disciplines
  Register in advance for these seminars: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYkfu-srjguGt3MRDrnW8QTtSMnkK20Vf_4 (Registration is free)
  Various Speakers

Friday 13 November 2020 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - We Who Do Not Die: Outbreak Narrative's Limits and the Political Category of Survivor
  The Teams joining link will be added here: https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/we-who-do-not-die-outbreak-narratives-limits-and-political-category-survivor
  Adia Benton ((Northwestern University))
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Wednesday 18 November 2020 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Counting Shaykhs in hadith collections
  Professor Christopher Melchert
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 19 November 2020 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Special Seminar: Using field experiments to learn about religious behavior
  Special Seminars are held on Thursdays at 17:00
  Professor Adam Osman (Illinois (Urbana-Champaign))
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Friday 20 November 2020 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Can Black Lives Matter in a Black Country? Lessons from Jamaica
  Teams joining link will be added here: https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/can-black-lives-matter-in-a-black-country-lessons-from-jamaica
  Deborah Thomas ((University of Pennsylvania))
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Wednesday 25 November 2020 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Nana Asma’u (d. 1864): The erudite poet and mystic of the Sokoto Caliphate
  Dr Minlib Dallh
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - ‘Belongers’ and ‘non-belongers’: dividing citizens in 1968
  Deirdre Troy (Queen Mary University of London)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Friday 27 November 2020 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Colonial encounters in Acholiland and Oxford: the anthropology of F.K.Girling and Okot p'Bitek, co-hosted with the African Studies Centre
  Teams joining link will be added here: https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/colonial-encounters-acholiland-and-oxford-anthropology-fkgirling-and-okot-pbitek-co-host
  Tim Allen ((LSE))
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Wednesday 2 December 2020 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Alchemical interpretations of the Qur’an in the Shudhūr al-dhahab (Shards of Gold) and its commentaries
  Dr Richard Todd (Birmingham)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Special Seminar: Book talk: Islam, authoritarianism, and underdevelopment
  Special Seminars are held on Thursdays at 17:00
  Professor Ahmet Kuru (San Diego State)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Refugees and Racial Capitalism: What ‘Integration’ In the Labour Market Means
  Elizabeth Dunn (Indiana University Bloomington)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Friday 4 December 2020 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - The Globally Familiar: Mediating masculinities in Delhi, India
  Teams joining link will be added here: https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/the-globally-familiar-mediating-masculinities-in-delhi-india
  Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan ((Goldsmiths London))
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Wednesday 20 January 2021 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Refugee denial: Settler colonialism & the making of the Global North imaginary
  Laura Madokoro (Associate Professor of History, Carleton University)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Friday 22 January 2021 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Developing a praxis of decoloniality at the Pitt Rivers Museum
  Visit this webpage for the Teams joining link: https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/developing-a-praxis-of-decoloniality-at-the-pitt-rivers-museum
  Dr Laura Van Broekhoven (Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Wednesday 27 January 2021 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Refugees, escapees & migrants: International migration and the politics of naming displacement in the Biafran War
  Bonny Ibhawoh (Professor of History & Senator William McMaster Chair in Global Human Rights, McMaster University)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 28 January 2021 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Residence and citizenship by investment: understanding recent trends
  Christian Joppke (University of Bern), Kristin Surak (London School of Economics)

Friday 29 January 2021 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Global Reckonings in Torture
  Visit this webpage for Teams joining link: https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/global-reckonings-torture
  Laurence Ralph (University of Princeton)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Wednesday 3 February 2021 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The international refugee regime and postcolonial sovereignty: Algeria, refugees and the UNHCR, 1954-63
  Malika Rahal (Research Fellow, Institut d’histoire du temps présent), Benjamin Thomas White (Senior Lecturer in History, Glasgow University)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Friday 5 February 2021 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Moving Still: Bicycles in Ranchhod Oza’s Photographs of 1950s Stone Town (Zanzibar)
  Visit this website for the Teams joining link: https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/moving-still-bicycles-in-ranchhod-ozas-photographs-of-1950s-stone-town-zanzibar
  Pamila Gupta (University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Wednesday 10 February 2021 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Refugees, minority citizens and the law: Sindh’s deterritorialised partition
  Uttara Shahani (Postdoctoral researcher, RSC, University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 11 February 2021 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Citizenship, status, and money: from medieval times to the present
  Maarten Prak (University of Utrecht), Suryapratim Roy (Trinity College Dublin)

Friday 12 February 2021 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Revisiting a West African Ethnographic Archive: Colonial Legacies, Decolonial Affordances
  Visit this website page for the Teams joining link: https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/revisiting-west-african-ethnographic-archive-colonial-legacies-decolonial-affordances
  Paul Basu (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Wednesday 17 February 2021 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The Long Journey Home: African American Forced Migration & Exile from the Civil War to the Vietnam War.
  Saje Mathieu (Associate Professor of History, University of Minnesota)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Friday 19 February 2021 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Decolonising Primatology
  Visit this webpage for the Teams joining link: https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/decolonising-primatology
  Jo Stechell (University of Durham)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Monday 22 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 18:00 - Current Debates in the Study and Protection of Displaced LGBT+ People
  Eirene Chen (UNHCR), Dr Mengia Tschalaer (City University of New York), Dr Kate Pincock (Overseas Development Institute)
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures

Wednesday 24 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Crucibles of Exile: Palestinian education and the politics of regeneration, 1948 - 1967
  Mezna Qato (Margaret Anstee Centre Research Fellow, University of Cambridge)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 25 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Citizenship by investment and international law
  Peter J. Spiro (Temple University), Audrey Macklin (University of Toronto)

Friday 26 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Blackness and the Psychiatric: Reflections on Madness, Historiography, and Ethnography
  Visit this webpage for the Teams joining link: https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/blackness-and-psychiatric-reflections-madness-historiography-and-ethnography
  Nancy Hunt (University of Florida)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Wednesday 3 March 2021 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Haitian refugees, the US state, and precedents for global border regimes
  A.Naomi Paik (Associate Professor of Asian American Studies, University of Illinois)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Friday 5 March 2021 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Cancelled: Anthropology, Fiction, and Decolonization: Chinua Achebe and the ‘Image of Africa’
  This seminar has been cancelled.
  Rogers Orock (University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Wednesday 10 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Rethinking forced migration: Legacies of the Greek-Turkish population exchange
  Asli Igsiz (Associate Professor of Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies, New York University)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 11 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - The law and ethics of selling citizenship
  Ayelet Shachar (Max Planck Göttingen), Odile Ammann (University of Zürich)

Friday 12 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Carcinogenic residues of global biomedicine in Senegal
  Visit this webpage for the Teams joining link: https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/carcinogenic-residues-of-global-biomedicine-in-senegal
  Noémi Tousignant (University College London)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Friday 30 April 2021 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - The Face of Peace: Government Pedagogy amidst Disinformation in Colombia
  Dr Gwen Burnyeat (Merton College, University of Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Wednesday 5 May 2021 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The Rise of the Refugee Research Industry: Some Reflections
  Dr Mayssoun Sukarieh (Senior Lecturer in Middle Eastern Studies, King’s College London)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Friday 7 May 2021 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:30 - Are Asian Societies Better Prepared for Pandemics?
  Dr Frédéric Keck (EHESS: Paris)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Friday 14 May 2021 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - It’s Only a Matter of Time: Eviction, Uncertainty, and Temporal Disorientation in an Urban Travellers’ Camp
  Dr Anthony Howarth (University of Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Wednesday 19 May 2021 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - With, for, or by refugees? Practical and ethical challenges of participatory research
  Dr Kate Pincock (Overseas Development Institute)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Friday 21 May 2021 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Regeneration and its Hazards: A Commentary on Our Times
  Professor Marilyn Strathern (University of Cambridge)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Wednesday 26 May 2021 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Critical Localism: Reflections on the Localisation of Humanitarian Action in Theory and (Research) Practice
  Dr Kristina Roepstorff (IFHV, Bochum university)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Friday 28 May 2021 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Countenance: On Facing the Indeterminate Certitudes of a Serious Illness
  Dr Anthony Stavrianakis (CNRS: Paris)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Wednesday 2 June 2021 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Digital methodologies in forced migration and refugee research: rethinking voices, representation and power
  Professor Giorgia Donà (Centre for Migration, Refugees and Belonging, University of East London)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Wednesday 9 June 2021 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Syrian Refugees and Local Assistance in Berlin
  Yahya Alaous (Founder, Zusammenwachsen NGO; Journalist, Die Suddeutsche Zeitung)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Wednesday 16 June 2021 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Co-Producing research between academics, NGOs, and communities in humanitarian response
  Dr Caitlin Wake (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine), Dr Michelle Lokot (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine), Gang Karume (Rebuild Hope for Africa)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 23 September 2021 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Immigration Policy: What Should the UK Really Be Learning From Australia?
  Henry Sherrell (Grattan Institute), Madeleine Sumption (The Migration Observatory, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 13 October 2021 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Encountering the refugee camp beyond recognition
  Numbers will be limited, and you will be asked to register upon arrival.
  Dr Aya Musmar (University of Petra)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Friday 15 October 2021 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - British-German relations after Brexit and the German elections
  Attendees are asked to: Take a lateral flow test on the morning of the event. If positive, stay at home Stay home if you feel unwell Wear a face covering one while moving around indoor spaces where possible, while seated, particularly during larger events Be considerate of other people’s space Wash your hands regularly with soap or sanitiser Use the official NHS QR code posters displayed throughout the College site.
  Various Speakers
  European Studies Seminar

Tuesday 19 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Transformation of British Welfare Policy: Politics, discourse and public opinion
  If you would like to attend this event in person, please register with Eventbrite (use link to the web-page below). Places are limited due to our social distancing policy. Attendees are asked to: Take a lateral flow test on the morning of the event. If positive, stay at home Stay home if you feel unwell Wear a face covering one while moving around indoor spaces where possible, while seated, particularly during larger events Be considerate of other people’s space Wash your hands regularly with soap or sanitiser Use the official NHS QR code posters displayed throughout the College site. If you would to join online, please register with Zoom (See link to website below).
  Tom O'Grady (University College London), Daniel McArthur (Schoolpol, Oxford)
  European Studies Seminar

Wednesday 20 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Gender and humanitarian representations of Syrian refugees during displacement
  Numbers will be limited and you will be asked to register upon arrival.
  Dr Michelle Lokot (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 21 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Affective Ties, Citizen-Activists and Migrating Sex Workers
  Nick Mai (University of Newcastle, Australia)

Friday 22 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Magnifying the man about town: orature and print personhood in 1920s Lagos
  Prof Karin Barber (LSE)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Tuesday 26 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Václav Havel's Contested Legacy in Central Europe
  Online webinar
  Jacques Rupnik (Sciences Po, Paris), Michal Šimečka (European Parliament Renew Europe Group), Jessie Hronesova (Oxford department of International Development), Timothy Garton Ash (St Antony's College)
  European Studies Seminar

Wednesday 27 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Feminism in the Abrahamic Faiths
  Baroness Hale (Supreme Court of the United Kingdom)
• 17:30 - Refugeedom’s Subjects and Subjectivities
  Numbers will be limited and registration will be required on arrival.
  Dr Arek Dakessian (Queen Margaret University of Edinburgh)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 28 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Refugee Entrepreneurship and Gender Paradoxes
  Numbers will be limited and you will be asked to register upon arrival.
  Dr Farah Al Taji (Al-Balqa University)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Friday 29 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Black skins/white languages: artmaking in Western languages by Kurdish migrant women artists
  Dr Özlem Belçim Galip (Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow, The School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Tuesday 2 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Paradoxes of leadership in European foreign policy
  This is a hybrid event
  Lisbeth Aggestam (University of Gothenberg; St Antony’s College, Oxford)
  European Studies Seminar

Wednesday 3 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - "A Refugee-Led Study on Refugee-Led Organisations" | RSC/BIEA Refugee Led Research Hub
  We are hoping to make this a hybrid event. If you would like to be here in person, please be aware that this option is only available to students and staff of the University of Oxford, numbers are limited, and you may be asked to register on arrival.
  Abis Getachew, Andhira Kara, Mary Gitahi, Uwezo Ramazani, Mark Okello
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 4 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - ‘Unfortunately, I am not lucky’: Migrant Writing from Singapore and Australia
  Wernmei Yong Ade (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), Kelly Gardiner (La Trobe University, Australia), Deirdre C. Byrne (University of South Africa)

Friday 5 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - The architecture of language: an exploration in 3D
  Dr Alex PIllen (UCL)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Monday 8 November 2021 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Should we talk about fascism in Europe today?
  Hybrid event
  Lenka Bustikova (Arizona State University), Jane Caplan (St Antony's College, Oxford), Tim Vlandas (St Antony's College, Oxford), Othon Anastasakis (SEESOX, St Antony's College, Oxford)
  European Studies Seminar

Tuesday 9 November 2021 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - St Antony's, Germany and Britain: A memorial event for Professor A J (Tony) Nicholls
  Online event
  Various Speakers
  European Studies Seminar

Friday 12 November 2021 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - ISCA Anthropology Departmental Seminar
  TBA
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Wednesday 17 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - African Migration, Human Rights and Literature
  Professor Fareda Banda
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 18 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Religion and Migrating Genders and Loves
  Marianne Schleicher (Aarhus University, Denmark), Anna Rebecca Solevåg (VID Specialized University, Norway)

Friday 19 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - ISCA Departmental Seminar
  TBA
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Wednesday 24 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - History on the Margins: The Problem of Persian Historiography in the Deccan Sultanates
  Dr Roy Fischel (Department of History, SOAS)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:30 - Subcontinental Defiance to the Global Refugee Regime: Global Leadership or Regional Exceptionalism
  Jay Ramasubramanyam (York University, Toronto)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Friday 26 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - The past in the present: archives of longing among the Batek of Malaysia
  Dr Alice Rudge (UCL)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Tuesday 30 November 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Europe in a changing world: The view from outside
  Hybrid seminar
  Ezgi Basaran (St Antony’s College, Oxford) (St Antony’s College, Oxford), Dr Kira Huju (University of Oxford), Prof. Rana Mitter (University of Oxford), David Priestland (University of Oxford)
  European Studies Seminar

Wednesday 1 December 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - The Changing Contestations of Deportation in the UK: From Race to Asylum and Humanity
  Diletta Lauro (University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 2 December 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Whose Versions of Love and Marriage?
  Serena Petrella (Brandon University, Canada)

Friday 3 December 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - The International Gender Studies Lecture 2021: Language of resistance
  Dr Giulia de Togni (University of Edinburgh)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Wednesday 19 January 2022 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Immigration Controls, Captivity and Reproductive Injustice in Britain: Punishing illegalised migrant women from the Global South and separating children from their mothers
  Dr Monish Bhatia (Birkbeck University of London)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Friday 21 January 2022 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - Holding the Frame/Playing the Game: Transference as Political Potentiality
  William Mazzarella (University of Chicago)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Tuesday 25 January 2022 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - UK-EU Relations two years after Brexit
  Online Zoom Webinar
  Charles Grant (Centre for European Reform), Jana Puglierin (European Council on Foreign Relations), Georgina Wright (Institut Montaigne)
  European Studies Seminar

Wednesday 26 January 2022 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 18:00 - Postcolonial Racisms: National sovereignty and the making of new global apartheids
  Professor Nandita Sharma (University of Hawai’i at Manoa)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 27 January 2022 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Media, Myths and the reality of Climate Migration
  Various Speakers

Friday 28 January 2022 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - The Anthropology of Parliaments: Riffs and Rhythms in Political Work
  Professor Emma Crewe (SOAS)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Tuesday 1 February 2022 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - German Foreign Policy under Chancellor Scholz: What does it mean for the new German Government?
  Online Zoom Webinar
  Dr Franziska Brantner (MP Germany, Green Party), Alexander Graf Lambsdorff (MP Germany, Free Democratic Party)
  European Studies Seminar

Wednesday 2 February 2022 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Machine-Readable Refugees: Navigating biometric systems in Kenya
  Dr Keren Weitzberg (UCL)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Friday 4 February 2022 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - Diversity in an Era of Global Anthropocene Effects: An Anthropological Perspective
  Thomas Hylland Eriksen (University of Oslo)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Wednesday 9 February 2022 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Security Imperialism
  Professor Catherine Besteman (Colby College)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Abrahamic Interpretations of the Sacrifice of Abraham’s Son
  Dr Edward Kessler MBE (Founder-President of the Woolf Institute, University of Cambridge)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 10 February 2022 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Climate, Migration and Cities
  Various Speakers

Friday 11 February 2022 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - The Visual Evidence of State Achievements in Egypt
  Dr Chihab El Khachab (University of Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Wednesday 16 February 2022 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Borders, Militarism and Inequality in Global Capitalism: Reflections on strategies for freedom
  Dr Hannah Cross (University of Westminster)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Friday 18 February 2022 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - When Politics and Parasites Meet: Malaria as (Un)conscious Strategy in Palawan, the Philippines
  Dalia Iskander (University College London)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Tuesday 22 February 2022 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Democracy in Europe: What if Hungary’s election is not free and fair?
  This is a Zoom webinar
  Kim Lane Scheppele (Princeton University), Marta Pardavi (Hungarian Helsinki Committee), Marcin Walecki (University of Oxford)
  European Studies Seminar

Wednesday 23 February 2022 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The Constitutive Exterior: EU border externalisation and the social dynamics of the Senegal River Valley
  Dr Hassan Ould Moctar (SOAS University of London)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Reflections on the Arab Spring Ten Years On
  Sir Geoffrey Adams KCMG (British Ambassador to Egypt (2018-2021))
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 24 February 2022 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Climate migration, mitigation or pathways to political conflict (pragmatic solutions to climate adaptation or political trouble ahead?)
  Various Speakers

Friday 25 February 2022 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - Colombia, Citizens, and Anthropologists
  Myriam Jimeno (Universidad Nacional de Colombia)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Tuesday 1 March 2022 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Socialism Goes Global: The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the Age of Decolonisation
  Online Zoom webinar
  Paul Betts (St Antony's College, University of Oxford), James Mark (University of Exeter)
  European Studies Seminar

Wednesday 2 March 2022 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Governing the Displaced in Global Capitalism: Refugee survival from the camp to the city
  Dr Ali Bhagat (Saint Mary's University, Canada)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Smallpox, Polio, and Muslim "Resistance": reconsidering trust in global health
  Professor Sanjoy Bhattacharya (York)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Friday 4 March 2022 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - The Empty House: On the Debt of Migration in Rural Kyrgyzstan
  Madeleine Reeves (Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Tuesday 8 March 2022 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Techlash: How big tech corporations exercise business power and escape democratic control
  Hybrid event. To attend in person please register via Eventbrite: https://techlash.eventbrite.co.uk For online participation, register via Zoom.
  Aidan Regan (Associate Professor, University College Dublin)
  European Studies Seminar

Wednesday 9 March 2022 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Carceral Geographies, Racial Violence: The contested Mediterranean borderzone
  Dr Maurice Stierl (University of Sheffield)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Daulat, Saltanat and the Sultan in the Mughal and Ottoman Worlds
  Dr Gagan Sood (Department of International History, LSE)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 10 March 2022 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Law and Policy: legal instruments, climate migrants and refugees
  Lauren Nishimura (University of Oxford)

Friday 11 March 2022 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:30 - Roundtable discussion on the war in Ukraine
  Volodymyr Artiukh (University of Oxford), Anna Balazs (University of Manchester), Dace Dzenovska (University of Oxford), Taras Fedirko (University of St. Andrews), Maria Gunko (University of Oxford), Emma Rimpilänen (University of Oxford), Madeleine Reeves (University of Oxford), Roosa Rytkoenen (University of Manchester)
• 15:15 - Intergroup Relations in Chimpanzees and Bonobos
  Liran Samuni (Harvard University)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024
• 17:00 - How to Overcome Global Crises: Climate Change and Pandemics
  Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (Nelson Mandela Fellow)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Wednesday 27 April 2022 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Islam and the Strategic Global Rivalry over Energy: Illustrations from Afghanistan
  Dr Mohammad Talib (OCIS)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Wednesday 4 May 2022 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - The struggle for self-determination and grassroots liberation from neocolonial NGO-ism: perspectives from Kenya
  Grassroots Liberation group (Kenya), Dr Thomas Jeffrey Miley (University of Cambridge)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 5 May 2022 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The Remarkable Science of Nanopores: From Gene Sequencing to Organ Repair
  Professor Hagan Bayley (Founder, Oxford Nanopore)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies - Events

Wednesday 11 May 2022 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Islam and Child Rights: The Role of Religion in the Development of the Law
  Justice Imman Ali (Supreme Court of Bangladesh, Appellate Division)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - A materialist account of patriarchy under the post-colonial state
  Mohammed Elnaiem (University of Cambridge)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Wednesday 18 May 2022 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Truth, Knowledge, and Power in Islam Before the Nineteenth Century: A Heuristic Perspective on the Separation of Powers and the Rule of Law
  Professor Wael Hallaq (Columbia University)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 19 May 2022 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Inaugural Sir Muhammad Iqbal Lecture - The Ethics of Empire and Wealth: Ibn Khaldun and the Modern State
  Professor Wael Hallaq (Columbia University)

Friday 20 May 2022 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Fascism is not dead: violence of Hindu nationalism in India and the possibilities of resistance
  Professor Dibyesh Anand (University of Westminster)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Saturday 21 May 2022 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Orientalism and the Philology of the New Human
  Professor Wael Hallaq (Columbia University)

Tuesday 24 May 2022 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The struggle for peace by LGBTI+ and women’s organisations in Turkey
  Nisan Alıcı (Ulster University), Güneş Daşlı (Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Wednesday 25 May 2022 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Caliph, Sultan and Scholar: The Political Career of Fakhr al-Din al-Razi (d. 1210)
  Dr Ayman Shihadeh (SOAS)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Tuesday 31 May 2022 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Epidemics, Continuity and Change
  Professor Erica Charters (University of Oxford), Professor Mark Harrison (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies - Events

Wednesday 1 June 2022 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Mr Simon Collis (Former British Ambassador to Saudi Arabia (2015-20))
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Tuesday 7 June 2022 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Applications of Machine Learning in Healthcare
  Professor Lionel Tarassenko (Reuben College, Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies - Events

Wednesday 8 June 2022 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The Quest for Reforms of Islamic Systems of Education in Nigeria
  Professor Kabiru Chafe (Ahmadu Bello University)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Writing and researching Palestine: reflections on positionality and decoloniality
  Dr Yara Hawari (Al-Shabaka)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Monday 13 June 2022 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Liberal violence
  Dr Ayça Çubukçu (London School of Economics and Political Science)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Wednesday 15 June 2022 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The Reconstruction of the Awliya Domes in Hadramut, Yemen (2019-2021)
  Professor Salma Damluji (American University of Beirut)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Tuesday 11 October 2022 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - How Artifical Intelligence is Changing our Newsrooms
  Ms Subhransu Priyadarshini (Chief Editor, Nature India)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)

Wednesday 12 October 2022 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Continuity and Change in US Strategy toward the Middle East and the Islamic World
  Professor Vali Nasr (Johns Hopkins University)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 13 October 2022 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - From reproductive mobilities to reproductive geopolitics
  Carolin Schurr (University of Bern)

Tuesday 18 October 2022 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Social cohesion policies in displacement-affected contexts: promoting solidarity or preserving the protection space?
  Cory Rodgers (Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford), Watfa Najdi (Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs, Beirut)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Muslim Values and End of Life Care Decision Making
  Dr Mehrunisha Suleman (The Ethox Centre and Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)

Wednesday 19 October 2022 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Ben Ali’s Tunisia: Power and Contention in an Authoritarian Regime
  Dr Anne Wolf (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Friday 21 October 2022 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:15 - Words to sow: Language, violence, and peacemaking in Ukraine
  Deborah Jones (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Wednesday 26 October 2022 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Righteous Demagogues: The Moral Economy of Populism
  Dr Adnan Naseemullah (Kings College London)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 27 October 2022 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - Bordering processes as instruments of reproductive stratification
  Gwyneth Lonergan (University of Northumbria)

Friday 28 October 2022 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:15 - Contemporary colonial frontier making: Thinking from the operational digital enclosure in Northwest China
  Darren Byler (Simon Fraser)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Wednesday 2 November 2022 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Turkey’s Economic Development and Political Economy since 1980
  Professor Şevket Pamuk (Bogazici University)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Friday 4 November 2022 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:15 - Gifting luck: The generativity of kin and action among Gbaya gold miners
  Rosalie Allain (University of Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Tuesday 8 November 2022 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - The secret life of energy in refugee camps: uncovering spaces of power and principles of governance within humanitarian energy
  Sarah Rosenberg-Jansen (University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Food System Transformation, Food Futures and Climate Change
  Dr Monika Zurek (University of Oxford)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)

Wednesday 9 November 2022 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Actualizing Ideal Islam: Principles of Islamic Revival at the Dawn of Modernity
  Dr Fitzroy Morrisey (All Souls, Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 10 November 2022 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - Chinese Medicine in East Africa: An Intimacy with Strangers
  Professor Elisabeth Hsu (School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, Oxford)

Friday 11 November 2022 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:15 - Bioeconomies and mobile life: Migration in Libya and the Mediterranean
  Dr Marthe Achtnich (University of Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Tuesday 15 November 2022 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Right where we belong: how refugee teachers and students are changing the future of education
  Professor Sarah Dryden-Peterson (Harvard University)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Wednesday 16 November 2022 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Why the Palestinians Still Don’t Have a State, and Why Their Need is More Urgent Than Ever
  Lord McDonald of Salford (Christ's College, Cambridge)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Why the Palestinians still don't have a State, and why their need is more urgent than ever
  Lord McDonald of Salford (Christ's College, Cambridge)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 17 November 2022 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - Transatlantic Transactions: Gay Men, Surrogacy and Queer Reproductive Justice
  Marcin Smietana (University of Cambridge)

Friday 18 November 2022 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - War and the Future of Ukraine - Conference
  SOLD OUT - REGISTRATION CLOSED Co-convened by the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies; St. Antony’s College, Oxford (Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre and European Studies Centre); the Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna; Centre for East European and International Studies, Berlin.
  Various Speakers
  European Studies Seminar
• 15:15 - The contribution of Amerindian ethnology to the project of an “Anthropology of Life”
  Perig Pitrou ((CNRS/Collège de France))
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Tuesday 22 November 2022 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - A Postcolonial Society in a World of Empires. Perspectives on German History since 1919
  Gabriele Metzler (Humboldt University Berlin)
  European Studies Seminar

Wednesday 23 November 2022 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Islamic Prohibition, National Regulations and International Norms
  Dr Elife Biçer-Deveci (Universität Bern)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Friday 25 November 2022 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Islamic Values and Disruptive Technologies
  Mr Ehsan Masood
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)
• 16:00 - The Geoffrey Harrison Prize Lecture 2022 by Stanley Ulijaszek: Nutritional Anthropology
  This lecture has been cancelled and will now take place in Hilary Term 2023.
  Professor Stanley Ulijaszek (School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Tuesday 29 November 2022 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Voluntary statelessness
  Dr Rebecca Buxton (University of Cambridge)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Wednesday 30 November 2022 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Islamic Socialism: Radical Individuality and Equality?
  Dr Humeira Iqtidar (King's College London)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 1 December 2022 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - Infrastructures of Neglect: Border Works, Gender and Exceptionalism in Reproductive Governance on Europe’s Periphery
  Vanessa Grotti (University of Bologna)

Friday 2 December 2022 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:15 - Bureaucracy, archives and secrecy: An anthropological approach
  Eva Muzzopappa (Universidad Nacional de Río Negro)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Tuesday 17 January 2023 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The challenge of providing healthy, sustainable and equitable diets for all
  Professor Sir Charles Godfray (Director, Oxford Martin School)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)
• 17:00 - The Challenge of Providing Healthy, Sustainable and Equitable Diets for All
  Professor Sir Charles Godfray FRS (Oxford Martin School)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies - Events

Wednesday 18 January 2023 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Syria: The glory and the agony
  Ghayth Armanazi (Former Ambassador of the Arab League)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 19 January 2023 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:45 - Xenophobic Discrimination
  Professor Shreya Atrey (University of Oxford)

Friday 20 January 2023 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - Living in tide: the climate of the urban sea
  Nikhil Anand (UPenn)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Tuesday 24 January 2023 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Improving refugee resettlement
  Alex Teytelboym (University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Mind Shift: How culture transformed the human brain
  Associate Professor John Parrington (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)
• 17:00 - Mind Shift: How Culture Transformed the Human Brain
  Dr John Parrington (Worcester College, Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies - Events

Wednesday 25 January 2023 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - States of subsistence: the politics of bread in contemporary Jordan
  Jose Ciro Martinez (University of York)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Friday 27 January 2023 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - Entomological legacies of the armed conflict in Colombia
  Lina Pinto-García (Universidad de los Andes)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Wednesday 1 February 2023 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Inventing the Middle East: Britain and the Persian Gulf in the age of global imperialism
  Dr Guillemette Crouzet (Warwick)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Friday 3 February 2023 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - Crude sonics: field recordings from an extractive zone
  Zsuzsanna Ihar (University of Cambridge)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Tuesday 7 February 2023 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Digital labour platforms and migration: making of commoditised workers
  Dr Jonas Valente (Oxford Internet Institute), Dr Funda Ustek-Spilda (Oxford Internet Institute)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - An Ethics Framework for Brain-Computer Interface Devices
  Stephen Rainey (Delft University of Technology)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)
• 17:00 - An Ethics Framework for Brain-Computer Interface Devices
  Dr Stephen Rainey (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies - Events

Wednesday 8 February 2023 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Social cohesion and integration of minorities in post-conflict Muslim societies
  Salma Mousa (Yale University)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Friday 10 February 2023 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - How to stitch ethnography
  Tania Perez-Bustos (Universidad Nacional de Colombia)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Wednesday 15 February 2023 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Russian colonialism and the Ismailis: The exploration and annexation of the Pamirs, 1879 - 1905
  Alexander Morrison (New College, Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Friday 17 February 2023 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Doing the Game: An Ethnography of Undocumented Migration Trajectories from Afghanistan to Germany
  Hannah Pool (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series
• 15:15 - Bananapocalypse: externalities in the making of plantation capitalism in a global Mindanao
  Alyssa Paredes (University of Michigan)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Tuesday 21 February 2023 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - SEMINAR CANCELLED | The digital border and its techno-symbolic assemblages of power
  Prof Lilie Chouliaraki (LSE), Prof Myria Georgiou (LSE)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Wednesday 22 February 2023 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Religious rights and freedom of speech
  Rt Hon the Baroness Hale of Richmond DBE (Former President of the Supreme Court)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Friday 24 February 2023 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - The Role(s) of Higher Education in Emergencies
  Prof Barbara Moser-Mercer (University of Nairobi)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series
• 15:15 - The Geoffrey Harrison Prize Lecture 2022 by Stanley Ulijaszek: Nutritional Anthropology
  Professor Stanley Ulijaszek (School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Tuesday 28 February 2023 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - SEMINAR CANCELLED | Asylum, digital surveillance and platform power
  Prof Claudia Aradau (King's College London)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Wednesday 1 March 2023 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Climate policy in Muslim societies
  Adil Najam (Boston University)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Friday 3 March 2023 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Virtual borders: human rights and the fluid subject of algorithmic governance
  Dr Dimitri Van Den Meerssche (Queen Mary University of London)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Refugee Camps: From Temporary to Permanency in the Sub-Saharan and Mediterranean Area
  Juana Canet Rosselló (School of Architecture of Madrid)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series
• 15:15 - Intimate rites: ancestors and queer kinship in Zimbabwe
  Raffaela Taylor-Seymourn (University of Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Wednesday 8 March 2023 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Varieties of Islamic constitutionalism
  Clark B. Lombardi (National University of Singapore)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Friday 10 March 2023 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - The rise and fall of generation now'
  Tim Ingold (University of Aberdeen)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Monday 24 April 2023 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Sultan Azlan Shah Lecture: Islamic finance in English law: a level playing field?
  Lord Briggs of Westbourne, PC (Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies - Events

Wednesday 26 April 2023 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The Social World of Traders: Commerce and Social Differentiation in Pre-conflict Aleppo
  Dr Paul S. Anderson (University of Cambridge)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Tuesday 2 May 2023 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The Visualisation of Archaeological Hypotheses with Digital Technologies - An Architectural View on Islamic and Other Heritage
  Prof. Dominik Lengyel (Brandenburg University of Technology)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)
• 17:00 - Church and state in contemporary Poland
  Registration not required unless you wish to join online
  Anna Grzymala-Busse (Stanford University), Jarosław Kuisz (Kultura Liberalna), Hubert Czyzewski (Zofia Institute)
  European Studies Seminar

Wednesday 3 May 2023 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Tunisia’s Democratic Transition: Autonomous Activism and Accountability
  Dr Rory P. McCarthy (Durham University)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 4 May 2023 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:45 - Focusing In on Life Course Processes to Understand How Racism Patterns Racial/Ethnic Inequities in Health
  Professor Laia Becares (King's College London)

Wednesday 10 May 2023 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Islam and the East: The New Geopolitics of Religion and Identity
  Prof Peter Mandaville (George Mason University)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Wednesday 17 May 2023 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Writing the History of Saladin
  Prof Jonathan Phillips (Royal Holloway, University of London)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 18 May 2023 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:45 - The Unfairness of Fair Machine Learning: Levelling down and strict egalitarianism by default
  Dr Brent Mittelstadt (Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford)
• 17:00 - Between Philology and Philosophy: The accommodation of Islamicate sciences in Late Imperial China
  Dror Weil (Cambridge)
  Magic, Maths, Mamluks, and Mongols: History of Islamic Science at the Boundaries

Friday 19 May 2023 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The impact of the new geopolitical context on European trade policy
  European Commission (European Commission)
  European Studies Seminar

Wednesday 24 May 2023 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Islam and Empire in India: The Padshah's Sacred Authority and Religious Pluralism in Mughal Times
  Prof Corinne Lefevre (Centre for South Asian Studies (CNRS-EHESS))
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 25 May 2023 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The science of silence: alchemy, astronomy, and heresy in the work of al-Safadi
  Yusuf Tayara (Oxford)
  Magic, Maths, Mamluks, and Mongols: History of Islamic Science at the Boundaries

Tuesday 30 May 2023 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Renewing the traditions of reform in Europe
  ESC ANNUAL LECTURE If you wish to attend online, please register with Zoom
  Charles S. Maier (Harvard University)
  European Studies Seminar

Wednesday 31 May 2023 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Institutions, Guilds, and Economic Prosperity
  Prof Sheilagh Ogilvie (All Souls College, Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 1 June 2023 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Ilm al-Nujūm in the fifteenth century Sultanate of Cairo Islamic astronomy/astrology and the importance of boundary work
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Fien de Block (Ghent University)
  Magic, Maths, Mamluks, and Mongols: History of Islamic Science at the Boundaries

Friday 2 June 2023 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - When Men Fell from the Sky: Civilians and Downed Airmen in Second World War Europe
  Claire Andrieu (Sciences Po, Paris), Ruth Harris (University of Oxford ), Martin Conway (Balliol), Nick Stargardt (University of Oxford)
  European Studies Seminar

Monday 5 June 2023 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Crafting Medieval Spain: the Torrijos ceiling in the Victoria and Albert Museum
  Dr Mariam Rosser-Owen (Victoria and Albert Museum)

Tuesday 6 June 2023 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Pregnancy as an Opportunity to Improve Women’s Lifelong Health
  Dr Jane Hirst (Nuffield Department of Women's & Reproductive Health, University of Oxford)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)
• 17:00 - Opportunities and challenges facing Ukraine's democratic transition
  In person and online. Registration required for attending online.
  Marcin Walecki (University of Oxford), Caroline Baylon (Future Generations in the UK Parliament), Marnie Howlett (University of Oxford), Prof Lenka Bustikova (University of Oxford)
  European Studies Seminar

Wednesday 7 June 2023 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - The 'local turn', 'hybridity', and 'friction' in refugee governance: an ethnography of Refugee-Led Organizations (RLOs) in the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh
  Dr Salehin Mohammad (UiT-The Arctic University of Norway)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series
• 16:30 - The economic and political consequences of colonialism in Puerto Rico
  Edwin Irizarry-Mora (University of Puerto Rico)
• 17:00 - Keith Griffin Lecture - Negotiating a Violent Terrain: Political Engagement in Sahel and Somalia
  Dr Comfort Ero (President and CEO, International Crisis Group)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies - Events

Thursday 8 June 2023 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - “To predict the success or failure of something, they use no other instrument than the astrolabe": astrology and artistry at the Safavid court
  Federica Gigante (History of Science Museum, Oxford)
  Magic, Maths, Mamluks, and Mongols: History of Islamic Science at the Boundaries

Monday 12 June 2023 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Tahriib – Journeys into the Unknown: An Ethnography of Uncertainty in Migration
  Anja Simonsen (University of Copenhagen), Ruben Anderson (ODID), Peter Walsh (COMPAS, Oxford)

Wednesday 14 June 2023 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - ASEAN: Navigating Geopolitical Turbulence in the Indo-Pacifi
  Dr Marty Natalegawa (Former Foreign Minister of Indonesia)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies - Events

Friday 23 June 2023 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - The European Condition: Looking Back, Looking Forward
  There are limited places to attend the event in person. Please contact us to inquire if there is space.
  Various Speakers
  European Studies Seminar

Wednesday 27 September 2023 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Kazakhstan: Past, Present and Future
  HE Mr Magzhan Ilyassov (Ambassador of the Republic of Kazakhstan)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies - Events

Tuesday 10 October 2023 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Science and Islam: A Perspective from Rural Bangladesh
  Dr Abed Chaudhury (Co-founder and Chief Scientist, Genofax, Australia & USA; Chairman, Krishan Foundation, Bangladesh)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)

Wednesday 11 October 2023 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Arabic's Easternmost Frontier: Arabic Manuscripts, Sufism and Courtly Culture in Southeast Asia, 17th-18th Centuries
  Prof Andrew Peacock (University of St Andrews)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Tuesday 17 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Artificial Intelligence - Hopes and Fears
  Dr Christopher Ganz (ETH, Zurich, Switzerland)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)

Wednesday 18 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Beyond Self Interest: Why the Market Rewards Those Who Reject It
  Prof Krzysztof Pelc (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Recognising Refugees: Book discussion on IOM Unbound? Obligations and Accountability of the International Organization for Migration in an Era of Expansion
  Various Speakers
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Wednesday 25 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - The use of new technologies in immigration and asylum governance: implications for human rights
  Dr Derya Ozkul (Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford), Professor Lorna McGregor (University of Essex), Dr Petra Molnar (York University, Canada)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Fulfulde as a Language of Religious Expression in the Islamic Religious Culture of West Africa
  Prof Louis Brenner (SOAS)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Wednesday 1 November 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Significance of the Dome in Islamic Architecture
  Prof Robert Hillenbrand (University of Edinburgh)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Book launch: Time and Power in Azraq Refugee Camp
  Dr Melissa Gatter (University of Sussex)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Monday 6 November 2023 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - The making of the Samoa Agreement: Insights from the negotiations between the EU, Africa and the ACP states
  Light lunch provided
  Maurizio Carbone (University of Glasgow), Eli Gateva (Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford)
  European Studies Seminar

Tuesday 7 November 2023 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Past, Present, and Future of Earthquake Risk in Asia
  Prof Richard Walker (University of Oxford)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)

Wednesday 8 November 2023 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Power, Knowledge, and the Illusion of Control: Western Counterinsurgency in the Muslim World 1954-2014
  Dr Christian Tripodi (King's College London)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - SEMINAR POSTPONED - DATE TBC | Beyond Livelihoods: A Protracted Displacement Economy Approach
  Professor Anne-Meike Fechter (University of Sussex), Michael Collyer (University of Sussex), Dr Tahir Zaman (University of Sussex), Dr Ali Ali (University of Sussex)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Wednesday 15 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Green Industrialization: Evidence from and for Muslim Societies
  Dr Amir Lebdioui (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Tuesday 21 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The use of Behavioural Science Models to shift diets for Health and Climate
  Dr Cother Hajat (Director, Real World Health; Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)

Wednesday 22 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Can international law make a difference in time of war?
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Sir Christopher Greenwood (University of Cambridge)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Refugee Protection and AAA and others (2023-4) | Panel 1: International Refugee Law and Safe Third Countries
  Prof Cathryn Costello (University College Dublin), Raza Husain KC (Matrix Chambers), Dr Madeline Garlick (UNHCR)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Friday 24 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Path to a New Humanitarian World Order: Upholding Human Dignity and Climate Integrity
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  HRH Prince El Hassan Bin Talal
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies - Events

Wednesday 29 November 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Refugee Protection and AAA and others (2023-4) | Panel 2: Borders, Racialisation, and Refugee Protection in Rwanda
  Michael Collyer (University of Sussex), Dr Frank Habineza MP (Member of Rwandan Parliament 2018-2023 and Founding President of the Democratic Green Party of Rwanda), Dr Felix Ndahinda (Researcher and Consultant), Dr Uttara Shahani (University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 30 November 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders
  This seminar will be held on Thursday, 30 November
  Prof Ayse Zarakol (University of Cambridge)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Wednesday 17 January 2024 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Beyond Livelihoods: A Protracted Displacement Economy Approach
  Michael Collyer (University of Sussex), Dr Tahir Zaman (University of Sussex), Dr Ali Ali (University of Sussex), Dr Ayub Jan (University of Peshawar), Dr Ceri Oeppen (University of Sussex)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Civilian Casualties in War
  Professor Neta Crawford (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Friday 19 January 2024 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - 'Evangelical Gitanos are a Good Catch': Masculinity, Authority, and Flirting in Spain
  Antonio Montanez Jimenez (University of Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Tuesday 23 January 2024 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Is The World Making Progress in Malaria Control?
  Professor Kevin Marsh (University of Oxford)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)
• 17:00 - Refugee protection in Europe: Some contemporary challenges
  Chair: Othon Anastasakis (St Antony's College, Oxford)
  Dr Catherine Briddick (University of Oxford), Steven Haines (University of Greenwich)
  European Studies Seminar

Wednesday 24 January 2024 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Refugee Protection and AAA and others (2023-4) | Panel 3: Enabling Refoulement? The UK-Rwanda Agreement and Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
  Professor Jonathan Portes (King's College London), Zoe Bantleman (Immigration Law Practitioners' Association), Dr Catherine Briddick (University of Oxford), Sile Reynolds (Freedom from Torture), Dr Nicola Palmer (King's College London)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Khilafat and the Pan-Islamic Imagination
  Professor Faisal Devji (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 25 January 2024 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:45 - ‘Cost-of-living’ Crisis For All; Help Only For Some
  Ilona Pinter (CASE, LSE)

Friday 26 January 2024 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - Finding One's Place at University: The Case of Dalit Students in South Asia
  Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka (Bielefeld University)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Monday 29 January 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - (No)where to return: Ukrainian forced migrants in Romania
  Dr Volodymyr Artiukh (COMPAS, Oxford)
  RESC Monday Seminar, Hilary Term 2024

Tuesday 30 January 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Local Responses to precarious migrants - findings from a comparative project in Cardiff, Frankfurt and Vienna
  Online only.
  Professor Simon Güntner (Hamburg University)
  C-MISE Research Exchange Webinars
• 17:00 - How can genetics and breeding help feed 10 billion people?
  Professor Cristobel Uauy (John Innes Institute)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)
• 17:00 - Covid-19 pandemic; lessons learned, challenges and opportunities for health policy and regulatory changes in the European Union
  Andrzej Rys (EU Visiting Fellow, St Antony’s College, Oxford), Dipak Kalra (The European Institute for Innovation through Health Data)
  European Studies Seminar

Wednesday 31 January 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Displacement from Conflict: Old Realities, New Protections?
  Dr Ruvi Ziegler (University of Reading )
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Medieval Syria and the Onset of the Crusades: The Political World of Bilad al-Sham 1050-1128
  Dr James WIlson (University of Konstanz)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Friday 2 February 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Attitudes to Migration and Patterns of Discrimination: Findings from Japan, the UK, Colombia, and Peru
  Dr Adam Komisarof (Keio University), Mariña Fernández-Reino (COMPAS, University of Oxford), Dr William L Allen (DPIR, University of Oxford), Professor Robin Cohen (Emeritus Professor of Development Studies)
• 15:15 - Genealogies of Extractivist Entanglement in Bolivia
  Mark Goodale (Lausanne)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Monday 5 February 2024 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:30 - The Roles of Acculturation Pressures and Migration Reasons on Subjective Well-Being for Migrants: Findings from Japan, Australia, the US, and the UK
  Dr Adam Komisarof (Keio University), Dr Carlos Vargas-Silva (COMPAS, University of Oxford), Daisy Pollenne (DPhil in Migration Studies, COMPAS)

Tuesday 6 February 2024 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Paella pans and petrol cans: Noise-making and Charivari in contemporary Spain
  Matthew Kerry (Jesus College, Oxford), Tom Buchanan (University of Oxford)
  European Studies Seminar

Wednesday 7 February 2024 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Refugee History in the Gaza Strip
  Dr Anne Irfan (University College London)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Britain and the Muslim World: New Partnerships with Old Friends
  The Lord Ricketts of Shortlands
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies - Events

Friday 9 February 2024 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - The King of the Arena: Sport, Spectacle and Celebrity in Senegal
  Julien Bonhomme (EHESS, College de France)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Monday 12 February 2024 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Recognizing Palestinian Statehood: European views
  IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE MIDDLE EAST CENTRE
  Chris Doyle (Council for Arab-British Understanding), Alon Liel (Policy Working Group - Israel), Haizam Amirah Fernández (Elcano Royal Institute)
  European Studies Seminar

Tuesday 13 February 2024 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Coping with Crisis – rescuing academics in the 21st century
  Stephen Wordsworth (Executive Director, Council for At-Risk Academics (CARA))
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)
• 17:00 - Energy transition, financial markets and new EU interventionism
  Federica Genovese (St Antony’s College, Oxford), Dr Tom Hale (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University)
  European Studies Seminar

Wednesday 14 February 2024 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Evacuations as Displacement
  Scientia Professor Jane McAdam (University of New South Wales)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Muslim Justice Under Christian Rule: The Banū Rajā’ Qādīs of Norman Sicily
  Professor Jeremy Johns (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 15 February 2024 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:45 - Hearing From Experts by Experience: Lived Experience Panel
  Various Speakers
• 17:00 - Talking to Anyone for the Good of Everyone: Diplomacy in a Multipolar World
  HE Sayyid Badr Albusaidi (Foreign Minister of the Sultanate of Oman)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies - Events

Friday 16 February 2024 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - Extracting Vitalities: Indigenous Women and Reproductive Health
  Maria Laura Prates (University of Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Tuesday 20 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Social Inclusion and Access to Basic Services of Third-Country Nationals (AccessIN) in Belgium, Spain, Germany and Hungary
  Online only.
  Marie Mallet-Garcia (COMPAS, University of Oxford)
  C-MISE Research Exchange Webinars
• 17:00 - What explains the enduring success of far-right parties in Europe?
  Katja Salomo (St Antony’s College, Oxford)
  European Studies Seminar

Wednesday 21 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Book launch: Becoming Adult on the Move: Migration Journeys, Encounters and Life Transitions
  Various Speakers
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - From the Higher Objectives of Islamic Law to the Higher Objectives of Islamic Theology
  Dr Mohammed Gamal Abdelnour (SOAS, University of London)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Friday 23 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - Exploring Macro-evolutionary Trends in Human and Primate Evolution
  Thomas Püschel (University of Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024
• 16:30 - Rethinking Climate Change and Migration: From Victims to Agents of Change
  Raul Hinojosa-Ojeda (University of California, Los Angeles), Yvonne Su (York University)

Tuesday 27 February 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Where you stand depends on where you sit: The challenge of being an academic turned Head of State
  Guðni Thorlacius Jóhannesson (President of Iceland)
  European Studies Seminar

Wednesday 28 February 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The First Friday Sermons of Islam as a Nexus of Piety, Ethics, and Politics
  Professor Tahera Qutbuddin (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 29 February 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:45 - Open for the childless skilled only? The social rights of third country nationals as workers and parents in the UK and the European Union
  Traute Meyer (University of Southampton)

Friday 1 March 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - National Showing Off and Telling Off: Ethnology, Anthropology and the Humboldt Forum
  Sharon Macdonald (Humboldt University, Berlin)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Monday 4 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Sources for the Study of South Asian Islam: Introducing the K A Nizami Collection
  Professor Bruce B Laurence (Duke University)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies - Events

Wednesday 6 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Written in the Margins – Articulating Islam in Early Modern China
  Dr Dror Weil (University of Cambridge)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Protection of the right to nationality: Resolution No. 02/23 of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights / Protección del derecho a la nacionalidad: Resolución No. 02/23 de la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos
  Seminar available in both English and Spanish
  Commissioner Andrea Pochak (IACHR), Dr Laura van Waas (Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 7 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:45 - The long durée of the welfare-migration nexus in Britain: the no recourse to public funds rule
  Eve Dickson (UCL)

Friday 8 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:15 - The Diagnostic Divide: Molecular Psychiatry, PTSD, and Ethical Dilemmas in Disaster Mental Health Response in Japan
  Ben Epstein (University of Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024
• 17:00 - The Story Smuggler, or how to narrate the 'happened' and the 'un-happened'. A conversation with Georgi Gospodinov
  IN ASSOCIATION WITH SEESOX
  Georgi Gospodinov (Writer, poet and playwright), Marilena Anastasopoulou (LSE), Paul Betts (St Antony's College, University of Oxford), Dessy Gavrilova (Cultural entrenpreneur)
  European Studies Seminar

Tuesday 12 March 2024 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - African Demography, Immigration, and Xenophobic Populist Ideology in France
  Yves Charbit (UMR CEPED)
• 14:00 - The ‘irregularity assemblage’: a theoretical and practical framework to understand the conditions of irregular migrants in Europe
  Online only.
  Prof. Dr. Nando Sigona (Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology, Chair of International Migration and Forced Displacement, Director of IRiS, University of Birmingham)
  C-MISE Research Exchange Webinars

Wednesday 13 March 2024 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory
  Francesca P Albanese (United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Tuesday 23 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Sanctuary Policies for Irregular Migrants in European Cities: Dismantling the Fortress from the Ground Up?
  Online only
  Dr Raffaele Bazurli (Queen Mary University of London)
  C-MISE Research Exchange Webinars

Wednesday 24 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Crisis in the Sahel: Causes and Consequences for Africa, Europe and the Muslim World
  Dr Jonathan Guiffard (Institute Montaigne)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 25 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:45 - Migration Governance in the Global South: Setting the Scene
  Hybrid event
  Bisimwa Mulemangabo (Refugee Led-Research Hub, University of Oxford), Oliver Bakewell (University of Oxford)

Friday 26 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:15 - The politics of demographic imagination
  Ivan Krastev (ESC Fellow, St Antony's College, Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024
• 17:00 - From the Maidan to Mariupol: Civil Resistance in Ukraine 1990-2024
  Please note change of venue
  Olga Onuch (University of Manchester)
  European Studies Seminar

Tuesday 30 April 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Climate Change News Audiences: Analysis of News Use and Attitudes
  Dr Waqas Ejaz (University of Oxford)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)

Wednesday 1 May 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Sufism in Al-Sanusi’s Theological Works
  Dr Tobias Andersson (Uppsala University)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 2 May 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:45 - Equal Partnerships: African intermediary cities as actors in urban migration governance
  Online event (Zoom)
  Janina Stürner-Siovitz (Institut für Politische Wissenschaft)

Friday 3 May 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:15 - A gap in the law for ethical acts: Russian theories and practice of illiberal modern life
  Xenia Cherkaev (Institute of European Ethnology, Humboldt University Berlin)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Monday 6 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Evaluating Citizens' Assemblies: Facing challenges and exploring new perspectives
  IN ASSOCIATION WITH MAISON FRANÇAISE D'OXFORD
  Various Speakers
  European Studies Seminar
• 17:00 - Keith Griffin Lecture: "Navigating a Radically Uncertain World"
  Professor Sir John Kay (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies - Events

Tuesday 7 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - How can multi-stakeholder partnerships support refugees and migrants with irregular status in African intermediary cities?
  Online only
  Janina Stürner-Siovitz (Institut für Politische Wissenschaft)
  C-MISE Research Exchange Webinars
• 17:00 - Islam and Artificial Intelligence: Knowledge and Common Sense
  Dr Mazhar Ali Bari (Ghulam Bari Foundation and Cognovation), Dr Biliana Popova (Al Akhawayn University, Morocco)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)

Wednesday 8 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Humanitarian extractivism: the digital transformation past, present, future
  Professor Kristin Sandvik (University of Oslo)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Chinggis Khan’s Empire Restored? The Conquests of Tamerlane in a Mongol Perspective
  Professor Peter Jackson (Keele University)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 9 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:45 - The Governance of Migration Data in Africa: Lessons from Different Initiatives: the African Union Migration Observatories and the African Migration Data Network
  Online only (Zoom)
  Diego Iturralde (Statistics South Africa), Kenza Aggad (IOM Global Data Institute), Michel Poulain (Emeritus Professor, UCLouvain, Belgium)

Friday 10 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:15 - The Power of the (An)archive: Art as resistance to (re-)colonial epistemic violence in Ukraine’s industrial East
  Victoria Donovan (University of St Andrews)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Tuesday 14 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:00 - Oxford Migration Studies Society Conference: 'Transformation and Resilience'
  Seán Binder

Wednesday 15 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Film Screening and Discussion: Missing in Brooks County
  Jeff Bemiss (Co-Director, Missing in Brooks County)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Qaum, Mulk, Sultanat: Citizenship and National Belonging in Pakistan
  Ali Usman Qasmi (LUMS)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 16 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:15 - Institutions and Time
  Dr Abubakr Muhammad (Lahore University of Management Sciences)
  Human-Water Systems: Lessons For and From River Basins of the Muslim World

Friday 17 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:15 - Foraging, messy commons, and the fuzzy fringes of capitalism
  Martin Saxer (Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Tuesday 21 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Irregularisation and the city: Insights from the case of Athens, Greece
  Online only
  Dr Eva Papatzani (National Centre for Social Research)
  C-MISE Research Exchange Webinars
• 17:00 - Air Pollution in the 21st Century – Time for a New Approach
  Dr Gary Fuller (Imperial College, London)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)

Wednesday 22 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Displacement and Documentary Film: A Conversation with Marc Isaacs
  Associate Professor Marc Isaacs (University College London)
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures
• 17:00 - Post-Globalism and the Ulama: Contestation of Authority
  Professor Raihan Ismail (St Antony's College)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 23 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:15 - Technology and Power
  Dr Abubakr Muhammad (Lahore University of Management Sciences)
  Human-Water Systems: Lessons For and From River Basins of the Muslim World

Friday 24 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:15 - Value and violence in the making of Ukraine’s war economy
  Taras Fedirko (University of Glasgow)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024

Tuesday 28 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Building Resilient Education Systems: Evidence from Large-Scale Randomized Trials in Five Countries
  Professor Noam Angrist (University of Oxford)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)
• 17:00 - Dreaming of Europe: Work refugees and the migration crisis
  In association with the Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre (RESC)
  Randall Hansen (University of Toronto; Refugees Study Centre, Oxford), Catherine Briddick (St Antony's College, Oxford)
  European Studies Seminar

Wednesday 29 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Book launch: The Politics of Crisis-Making: Forced Displacement and Cultures of Assistance in Lebanon
  Dr Estella Carpi (University College London)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Smugglers and States: Negotiating the Maghreb at its Margins
  Dr Max Gallien (University of Sussex)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Friday 31 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:15 - Contrasting Balkan utopias: Navigating migration and futurity in the physical remnants of Yugoslavia
  Matthew Porges (SAME, University of Oxford)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024
• 17:00 - Welfare chauvinism in Europe: The opposition towards social benefits and services for migrants
  Gianna Eick (University of Amsterdam)
  European Studies Seminar

Monday 3 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Sultan Azlan Shah Lecture: "Can International Law make a Difference in Time of War?"
  Sir Christopher Greenwood (University of Cambridge)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies - Events

Tuesday 4 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Democracy of the last man: The politics of demographic imagination
  In association with SEESOX
  Ivan Krastev (Centre for Liberal Strategies, Bulgaria)
  The ESC Annual Lecture

Wednesday 5 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Field research findings from the Climate Mobility, Onward Precarity, and Urban Environment (CEMENT) project
  Available via Teams https://shorturl.at/gSHHa
  Jin-Ho Chung (University of Oxford)
• 17:00 - Skilled worker visas for refugees – a qualitative evaluation of the UK’s Displaced Talent Mobility Pilot
  Dr Olivier Sterck (University of Oxford), Marina Brizar (Talent Beyond Boundaries), Sarah Walder (Talent Beyond Boundaries)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The Fall of Kabul: Why It Happened and Why It Matters?
  Sir Laurie Bristow (Hughes Hall, Cambridge)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 6 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:45 - Migration Governance in the Mediterranean Region: Setting a New Agenda?
  Driss El Yazami (National Human Rights Council, Morocco), Katharina Natter (Universiteit Leiden), Michael Collyer (University of Sussex)
• 17:15 - Climate and Justice
  Dr Abubakr Muhammad (Lahore University of Management Sciences)
  Human-Water Systems: Lessons For and From River Basins of the Muslim World

Tuesday 11 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Juggling a "parallel welfare system": local government responses to migrants' locked out of the welfare safety net
  Online only
  Lucy Leon (COMPAS, University of Oxford)
  C-MISE Research Exchange Webinars

Wednesday 12 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Iran’s Revolutionary Guards: A History
  Professor Maryam Alemzadeh (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 13 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:15 - Water and Wisdom
  Dr Abubakr Muhammad (Lahore University of Management Sciences)
  Human-Water Systems: Lessons For and From River Basins of the Muslim World

Monday 24 June 2024 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 05:00 - The Path to a New Humanitarian World Order: Upholding Human Dignity and Climate Integrity
  HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal (Nelson Mandela Fellow, OCIS)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies - Events

Tuesday 15 October 2024 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - “Ni es lo mismo, ni es igual”: Ecuadorian irregular migrants in Amsterdam and Madrid
  This event is online only (via Zoom)
  Gabriel Esteban Echeverría Cubello (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
  C-MISE Research Exchange Webinars
• 17:00 - Norms and Gender Inequality: Pathways and Limitations to Change in a Muslim Context
  Dr Ali Cheema (Lahore University of Management Sciences)
  Research Cluster on Economic and Human Development in Muslim Societies

Wednesday 16 October 2024 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Moral Atmospheres: Islam and Media in a Marketplace
  Timothy Cooper (King's College, Cambridge)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Fragments of Home: Refugee Housing and the Politics of Shelter (Book Launch)
  Professor Tom Scott-Smith (University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 17 October 2024 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - Empires we lose: why an English woman in Boston has nowhere to go
  Dace Dzenovska (University of Oxford)
  Perspectives of Place
• 17:00 - The Role of the UNAOC in a Multipolar World
  Mr Miguel Ángel Moratinos (High Representative United Nations Alliance of Civilizations)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies - Events

Tuesday 22 October 2024 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - COVID-19 in India: Epidemic, Inequality and Propaganda
  Dr Murad Banaji (University of Oxford)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)
• 17:00 - Carbon neutrality in media in Europe and worldwide: Mapping the transformation of the climate change regime
  Michael Parízek (Charles University, Prague), Jakub Tesar (Charles University, Prague)
  European Studies Seminar

Wednesday 23 October 2024 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - On Genocide: Then and Now
  Professor Phillipe Sands (University College London)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 24 October 2024 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - Linking multiscalar contestations over place in Peterborough, Brighton and Yiddishland
  Ben Rogaly (University of Sussex)
  Perspectives of Place

Wednesday 30 October 2024 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Iran’s Crisis of Governance
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Professor Anoush Ehteshami (Durham University)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Protection in the UK: the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
  Professor Başak Çalı (Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, University of Oxford), Professor Cathryn Costello (University College Dublin), Raza Husain KC (Matrix Chambers), Yasmine Ahmed (Human Rights Watch), Professor Catherine Briddick (Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 31 October 2024 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - Northern Exposure: Race, nation and disaffection in post-Brexit Wakefield
  Adrian Favell (Coláiste na hOllscoile Corcaigh), Andrew Wallace (University of Greenwich)
  Perspectives of Place

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

• 14:00 - Urban policies in support of undocumented migrants and their formulation process
  This event is online only (via Zoom)
  David Kaufmann (ETH Zürich), Sarah Schilliger (Universität Bern)
  C-MISE Research Exchange Webinars
• 17:00 - Mirror of the Universe: The Evolution of the Astrolabe
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Taha Yasin Arslan (Istanbul Medeniyet University)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)
• 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

Wednesday 6 November 2024 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - History and the Modern Middle East: Do Policy Makers Need a Sense of the Past?
  Sir John Jenkins (Former UK Ambassador to Saudi Arabia)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Refugee Afterlives: Home, Hauntings, and Hunger
  Dr Ashwiny O Kistnareddy (Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

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

• 15:30 - Northern Exposure presents: From Where We Stand
  Lucy Kaye, Adrian Favell (Coláiste na hOllscoile Corcaigh)
  Perspectives of Place

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

• 17:00 - Methodology of Collective Reasoning in the Modern Islamic World: The Case of the International Islamic Fiqh Academy
  Professor Ismail Cebeci (Marmara University)

Wednesday 13 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - English Judges in Muslim Countries: Synergies and Sensitivities in Promoting the Rule of Law
  Sir Peter Gross (Former Lord Justice of Appeal)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Conflict Refugees: European Union Law and Practice
  Dr Christel Querton (University of the West of England)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

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

• 15:30 - “It can’t get any worse”: Imagining the opportunity to be political throughout Brexit
  Katherine Smith (University of Manchester)
  Perspectives of Place

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

• 17:00 - Climate politics and public support for green transition in Europe
  Liam Beiser-McGrath (London School of Economics)
  European Studies Seminar

Wednesday 20 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Threats to the Rule of Law
  The Rt. Hon. Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury (Former President, UK Supreme Court)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - NGO Refugee Advocacy: Strengths, Weaknesses and Challenges
  Nick Henderson (CEO, Irish Refugee Council)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

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

• 17:00 - Air Quality in Oxford: Past, Present and Future
  Dr Suzanne Bartington (University of Birmingham)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)
• 17:00 - The new politics of Poland
  KOLAKOWSKI SEMINAR
  Jarosław Kuisz (Kultura Liberalna), Eli Gateva (DPIR, Oxford)
  European Studies Seminar

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

• 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 - Anthropology of Good: Exploring Volunteerism in the 2015 European Refugee Crisis
  Professor Dawn Chatty (University of Oxford), Professor Annika Rabo (Stockholm University)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

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

• 15:30 - “There must be something better than here”: the role of place in shaping the mobility aspirations of young people in coastal towns
  Avril Keating (UCL)
  Perspectives of Place

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

• 14:00 - Exploring post-2014 immigrant integration policies and governance in small and medium-size towns and rural areas in Europe
  This event is online only (via Zoom)
  Tiziana Caponio (Università di Torino / Collegio Carlo Alberto)
  C-MISE Research Exchange Webinars
• 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

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

• 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 - Rewriting Refugee Law: Centring Refugee Knowledges and Lived Experiences
  Professor Kate Ogg (Australian National University), Dr Saba Vasefi (scholar-journalist, poet, and documentary filmmaker), Professor Veronica Fynn Bruey (Athabasca University)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

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

• 15:30 - From the ground up: faultlines of war and peace in rural England
  Vron Ware (LSE)
  Perspectives of Place