College events

The new global disorder: How to navigate a world in chaos

Speaker: Zack Paikin, Trita Parsi, Louise Fawcett

Date & Time: May 1, 2025, 11:00 am

Europe and China in a Trumpian world

Speaker: Zhou Bo, Janka Oertel, Yang Yao

Date & Time: May 1, 2025, 5:00 pm

Mexico and Beyond: The Art of José María Velasco

Speaker: Daniel Sobrino Ralston

Date & Time: May 1, 2025, 5:00 pm

Early Career Workshop for Global Early Modern Intellectual History

Speaker: Tania Bride, Ross Moncrieff, Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet

Date & Time: May 2, 2025, 2:00 pm

Dahrendorf Lecture: After paradise: The US, EU and UK in a disordered world

Speaker: Robert Kagan

Date & Time: May 2, 2025, 5:00 pm

Bringing Dark Heritage to Light: Monuments to Wartime Foreign Laborers in Japan

Speaker: Professor Andrew Gordon

Date & Time: May 2, 2025, 5:00 pm

Ghost in the courtroom: Gender, belief, spirit possession, and the postcolonial state

Speaker: Saumya Saxena

Date & Time: May 5, 2025, 4:00 pm

Russia and the changing character of conflict

Speaker: Professor Tracey German

Date & Time: May 5, 2025, 5:00 pm

The Modern Life of Sanskrit: An Encounter with Psychoanalysis

Speaker: Ananya Vajpeyi

Date & Time: May 6, 2025, 2:00 pm

East of Empire: Egypt, India, and the World between the Wars

Speaker: Dr Erin M.B. O’Halloran

Date & Time: May 6, 2025, 5:00 pm

Losing Hurts: Defeated Legislators and Satisfaction with Democracy in Latin America

Speaker: Araceli Mateos Díaz

Date & Time: May 6, 2025, 5:00 pm

The Long Disenchantment: Reassessing UK-EU Relations from Accession to Brexit

Speaker: Ilaria Poggiolini, Timothy Garton Ash

Date & Time: May 6, 2025, 5:00 pm

Title TBC

Speaker: Clément Thibaud

Date & Time: May 8, 2025, 5:00 pm

Conference: Re-assembling Manchukuo from below: Invisible Minorities, Politics, and Imagination

Date & Time: May 9, 2025, 10:30 am

Conference: Re-assembling Manchukuo from below: Invisible Minorities, Politics, and Imagination

Date & Time: May 9, 2025, 10:30 am

Toward an Inclusive Archaeological and Historical Narrative of Palestine

Date & Time: May 9, 2025, 3:00 pm

African Studies Annual Lecture 2025: The Becoming Technical of the Human: Race After Apartheid

Speaker: Professor Premesh Lalu

Date & Time: May 12, 2025, 3:00 pm

Navigating power shifts: Russia and the growing asymmetrical relationship with China

Speaker: Dr Marcin Kaczmarski

Date & Time: May 12, 2025, 5:00 pm

Financial growth and regulation in the age of populism: the Financial Conduct Authority’s challenge in getting regulation right.

Speaker: Nikhil Rathi, Miles Celic

Date & Time: May 12, 2025, 5:00 pm

Afghanistan and the Concept of Asia: Intellectual Geographies in an Age of Reform

Speaker: Marya Hannun

Date & Time: May 13, 2025, 2:00 pm

Sacrificial Intimacies: The Value of Life, Labor, and Desire in Queer Kurdish Worlds

Speaker: Dr Emrah Karakuş

Date & Time: May 13, 2025, 5:00 pm

Beyond Pax Americana

Speaker: Dr Richard Haass

Date & Time: May 13, 2025, 5:00 pm

A Proposal To Unlock Investment For Small-Scale Farmers In Latin America

Speaker: Miguel Robles

Date & Time: May 13, 2025, 5:00 pm

Europe and the Black Sea regional (in)security: A story of mutual creation?

Speaker: Galip Dalay, Ian Lesser, Natalie Sabanadze

Date & Time: May 13, 2025, 5:00 pm

Rethinking Socialist Space in the Twentieth Century

Speaker: Dr Jennifer Altehenger, Paul Betts, Marcus Colla, Thục Linh Nguyễn Vũ, Bethan Winter

Date & Time: May 14, 2025, 5:00 pm

Tanaka Symposium in Japanese Studies 2025: Tohoku and Transnational Solidarities

Date & Time: May 15, 2025, 10:00 am

After the End of the World: Another Season of War in South Lebanon

Speaker: Professor Munira Khayyat

Date & Time: May 15, 2025, 5:00 pm

Competing Internationalisms in the Cold War Caribbean

Speaker: Emily Snyder

Date & Time: May 15, 2025, 5:00 pm

Dame Zaha Hadid Mini Series – Celebrating 10 Years Of The Investcorp Building

Speaker: Philip Michael Wolfson

Date & Time: May 16, 2025, 5:00 pm

Constituent Power versus Constitutionalism in Hindu and Muslim Political Thought

Speaker: Moiz Tundawala

Date & Time: May 19, 2025, 4:00 pm

Explaining Russia’s full-scale attack on Ukraine

Speaker: Dr Elias Götz

Date & Time: May 19, 2025, 5:00 pm

Political risk in an age of populism: How does business view politics and how do boardrooms find reliable ways of understanding political movements/risk?

Speaker: Charles Roxburgh, Malcolm Gooderham

Date & Time: May 19, 2025, 5:00 pm

Labour as Method: Studying Technologies of the South

Speaker: Hemangini Gupta

Date & Time: May 20, 2025, 2:00 pm

The World After Gaza

Speaker: Pankaj Mishra

Date & Time: May 20, 2025, 5:00 pm

Searching for the magic of conversations in these feral times

Speaker: Hakan Altinay, Paul Betts

Date & Time: May 20, 2025, 5:00 pm

Title TBC

Date & Time: May 22, 2025, 5:00 pm

The Devaki Jain Lecture

Speaker: Rana Husseini

Date & Time: May 23, 2025, 5:00 pm

Decolonial and Indigenous Military Geographies of Okinawa and Beyond

Speaker: Dr Hidefumi Nishiyama

Date & Time: May 23, 2025, 5:00 pm

Russia's relations with the USA

Speaker: Dr Ruth Deyermond

Date & Time: May 26, 2025, 5:00 pm

Designing with the Rohingya: Trauma, Resilience, Memory

Speaker: Professor Esther da Costa Meyer

Date & Time: May 27, 2025, 2:00 pm

Slavery, Abolition and Islam: Debating Freedom in the Islamic Tradition

Speaker: Dr Haroon Bashir

Date & Time: May 27, 2025, 5:00 pm

Indigenous Justice In Bolivia And The Travails Of Plurinational Constitutionalism

Speaker: René Provost

Date & Time: May 27, 2025, 5:00 pm

Spanish transition to democracy revisited

Speaker: Ainhoa Campos Posada, Alba Nueda Lozano, Sophie Baby, Magda Fitili

Date & Time: May 27, 2025, 5:00 pm

NGOization of the Palestinian civil society post-Oslo: our community-based ways out

Speaker: Dr Amal Nazzal, Soheir Asaad

Date & Time: May 28, 2025, 5:00 pm

Bridging the gap between research and policy in international affairs: A practitioner’s perspective

Speaker: Giulio Venneri

Date & Time: May 29, 2025, 5:00 pm

Pombal’s reforms in Brazil

Speaker: Kenneth Maxwell

Date & Time: May 29, 2025, 5:00 pm

Title TBC

Speaker: Dr Samer Abdelnour

Date & Time: May 30, 2025, 5:00 pm

Sacred Geographies, Political Communities: Burma’s South Asian History

Speaker: Sana Aiyar

Date & Time: June 2, 2025, 4:00 pm

Russia and ASEAN in the Indo-Pacific

Speaker: Dr Paradorn Rangsimaporn

Date & Time: June 2, 2025, 5:00 pm

Ecologies of Caste and Waste: Dependence and Value Making at the Bhalswa Landfill in Delhi

Speaker: Aparna Agarwal

Date & Time: June 3, 2025, 2:00 pm

States and Social Hierarchies in Kuwait and the Arab Gulf Region

Speaker: Professor Lisa Blaydes

Date & Time: June 3, 2025, 5:00 pm

From anti-Americanism to Americanofilia: The US in the kaleidoscope of Greek society

Speaker: Eirini Karamouzi, Lamprini Rori, Paul Betts

Date & Time: June 3, 2025, 5:00 pm

Understanding climate-related disruption of global financial governance: Vertical and horizontal models of change

Speaker: Jeff Colgan

Date & Time: June 4, 2025, 5:00 pm

Sir John Elliott Memorial Lecture Between Imperial History and Global History: Sir John Elliott, Historian of the Americas

Speaker: Serge Gruzinski

Date & Time: June 5, 2025, 5:00 pm

The Birth of Indian Liberalism

Speaker: Rahul Sagar

Date & Time: June 9, 2025, 4:00 pm

Rangoonwala Fellows: Development and Displacement in Pakistan

Date & Time: June 10, 2025, 2:00 pm

Contemporary Islamic Studies seminar

Speaker: Tareq Baconi, Professor Jeroen Gunning

Date & Time: June 10, 2025, 5:00 pm

Dame Zaha Hadid Mini Series – Celebrating 10 Years Of The Investcorp Building

Speaker: Joseph Giovannini

Date & Time: June 12, 2025, 5:00 pm

Henry Charles Lea, the Inquisition, and the Origins of Scientific History in the United States

Speaker: Richard Kagan

Date & Time: June 13, 2025, 5:00 pm

The Bangladesh Liberation War and Mass Internment of Bengalis in (West) Pakistan, 1971-1974

Speaker: Ilyas Chattha

Date & Time: June 16, 2025, 4:00 pm

Title TBC

Date & Time: June 20, 2025, 5:00 pm