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St Antony's College - North Site, European Studies Centre - Seminar Room

The New Byzantines: The Rise of Greece and Return of the Near East

Speaker: Othon Anastasakis, Sean Matthews

Date & Time: June 4, 2026, 5:00 pm

Caught between wars raging in both Eastern Europe and the Middle East, Greece is an island of relative stability. Popularly considered the cradle of Western civilisation, this is a Christian...

St Antony's College - Investcorp Lecture Theatre

Spectral politics in the Middle East and North Africa: the afterlives of violence and the force of memory

Speaker: Professor Charles RH Tripp

Date & Time: June 5, 2026, 5:00 pm

Professor Charles RH Tripp delivers the 47th annual George Antonius Memorial Lecture. This event will be followed by a drinks reception in the Investcorp Gallery.

St Antony's College - Pavilion Room

Revisiting Power-knowledge: Caste, Colonialism and Knowledge production

Speaker: Sunandan K N

Date & Time: June 8, 2026, 4:00 pm

By the early decades of the twentieth century, the introduction of colonial mode of education transformed the existing ways of knowing practices in Malabar and elsewhere in British India. Closely...

St Antony's College - MEC Boardroom, Kirdar Building

“Barbarian” Women: North African Literary Perspectives on Emancipation

Speaker: Dr Farah Ben Jemaa

Date & Time: June 9, 2026, 5:00 pm

Abstract : This talk examines examples of North African literature, from early twentieth-century texts to more recent works. These writings question forms of female emancipation associated with Western norms and...

Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies - Lecture Theatre

In Honour of Rosemary Thorp

Date & Time: June 11, 2026, 5:00 pm

Rosemary was a member of the University of Oxford between 1971 and 2008 where she became a unique contributor to Latin American Studies. Rosemary was director of the Latin American...

African Studies Centre - Seminar Room

Dangerous Fieldwork: The Challenges of Researching Crime in Lagos

Speaker: Felix Ajiola

Date & Time: June 12, 2026, 4:00 pm

AfOx Visiting Fellow, Felix Ajiola presents his work on Dangerous Fieldwork: The Challenges of Researching Crime in Lagos

St Antony's College - Pavilion Room

Justice, Individual and Community

Speaker: Humeira Iqtidar

Date & Time: June 15, 2026, 4:00 pm

The centrality of individual responsibility in South Asian and Islamic conceptions of justice is in some tension with the importance of the community in these traditions. How justice is operationalized...

St Antony's College - Pavilion Room, 4th Floor Gateway Building

Nissan Seminar: 'Experiencing the Amami Islands through Music: Performance and Participatory Workshop with Shimauta Artists'

Date & Time: June 19, 2026, 2:00 pm

Ugaminshoran! We are a collective of performers (utasha) devoted to the Shimauta traditions of the Amami Islands, Japan. Rooted in the rich natural environment of the archipelago, recognized as a...