College events - St Antony's

Nissan Lecture Theatre

The Soviet ‘Post-Civil Wars’: veterans and the making of the Soviet state

Speaker: Dr Thomas C Stevens

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

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Dahrendorf Room

Souls in the Kalyug: The Politics and Cosmologies of Migrant Workers in Contemporary India

Speaker: Shankar Ramaswami

Date & Time: October 14, 2025, 2:00 pm

The development process in India, along with its alleged achievements, has induced multiple difficulties and hardships for poor and working people. In villages, farming families c...

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Seminar Room, African Studies Centre

Hustle Urbanism: Making Life Work in Nairobi

Speaker: Tatiana Thieme, Sangwon Chae

Date & Time: October 14, 2025, 4:00 pm

Book launch & discussion with the author: Tatiana Thieme (UCL) Discussant: Sangwon Chae (Oxford) In Nairobi’s underserved neighborhoods, “hustle” has emerged as both a v...

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MEC Boardroom, Kirdar Building, 68 Woodstock Road

Sacred Places Tell Tales: Jewish Life and Heritage in Modern Cairo

Speaker: Professor Yoram Meital

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

'Sacred Places Tell Tales' explores the history of Egyptian Jewry through the lens of Cairo’s synagogues, treating them as “living archives” of Jewish life from 1875 to the p...

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Main Seminar Room, Latin American Centre, 1 Church Walk, Oxford

On The Peculiarities Of Latin American Culture

Speaker: Héctor Abad Faciolince

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

Hector Abad Faciolince is a Colombian writer, translator, and journalist. He has been a visiting professor at the Freie Universität Berlin in Germany and the University of Iowa in...

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Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR

Ukraine and beyond: Shaping Europe’s security future

Speaker: Olya Oliker, James O'Brien

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

Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine upended Europe’s security order, exposing vulnerabilities that continue to shape trans-Atlantic strategy. By early 2025, Russia is ...

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Dahrendorf Room

Bridge Contracts for Mobile Money in Kenya

Speaker: Jonathan Greenacre

Date & Time: October 16, 2025, 3:30 pm

This book analyzes the "bridge contracts" and laws which Kenya used to build a network of 180,000 mobile money agents in Kenya. The firm uses these agents (comprising corner stores...

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Investcorp Lecture Theatre

UN Order in Crisis: Global and Regional Faultlines of the Systemic Earthquake

Speaker: Professor Ahmet Davutoğlu

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

Speaker Bio: Ahmet Davutoglu, former Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Türkiye, is a world-renowned professor of international relations. Davutogl...

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Pavilion Room, 4th Floor Gateway Building

Scandals, Secrets and News: How Manuscripts Reshape Our Knowledge of Edo Culture

Speaker: Professor Peter Kornicki

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

For far too long now the Edo period has been pigeonholed as a ‘print culture’. It is time to explode this myth, and Professor Kornicki will do so by exploring some of the huge ...

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Oxford Centre for Global History 4th Anthony Gwilliam Annual Lecture - Femina Oeconomica: Global Gender Orders and the Rise of Neoliberal Woman

Speaker: Professor Maria Misra

Date & Time: October 17, 2025, 4:00 pm

The decades between the 1970s to the 1990s brought striking transformation in the conceptualisation of women, gender, and the economy. New ideas, particularly connected with notion...

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Syndicate Room, Old Main Building

Translated Scholarship and Japanese Universities: How Have Translations of Western Scholarship into Japanese Affected and Biased Japanese Academia?

Speaker: Professor Takehiko Kariya

Date & Time: October 17, 2025, 5:00 pm

Since the early Meiji period, Japan's 'catch-up' development strategy has been heavily reliant on the importation of 'advanced knowledge' from the West. Japanese higher education h...

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Nissan Lecture Theatre

Our dear friends in Moscow: the inside story of a broken generation

Speaker: Dr Irina Borogan, Dr Andrei Soldatov

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

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Pavilion Room

From redress to reimagining: a decolonial lens on justice for women war survivors in Sri Lanka

Speaker: Dr Farah Milhar

Date & Time: October 21, 2025, 2:00 pm

Despite limited empirical evidence of its effectiveness, transitional justice remains the dominant paradigm within international peacebuilding frameworks for addressing conflict-re...

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MEC Boardroom, Kirdar Building, 68 Woodstock Road

Demand for Repression during the Algerian War of Independence

Speaker: Professor Jean Lachapelle

Date & Time: October 21, 2025, 5:00 pm

What explains patterns of state repression during civil wars? To address this question, this paper analyzes novel data on rebel attacks and security operations during Algeria’s W...

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Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR

Shifting support: Western states, the UN, and local perceptions in conflict zones

Speaker: Stefano Costalli

Date & Time: October 21, 2025, 5:00 pm

This paper examines how populations in conflict zones perceive foreign military interventions, using Mali as a case study. Based on an original survey experiment (N = 1,594), it co...

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Main Seminar Room, Latin American Centre, 1 Church Walk, Oxford

The Amazonian Common Use Territory: Pluriverse or Insurgent Universality?

Date & Time: October 21, 2025, 5:00 pm

James A. Fraser works on the political and historical ecology of tropical forests, agrarian change, and struggles for recognition in Amazonia and West Africa. He holds a PhD in Env...

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Dahrendorf Room

Political belonging in the Ghana-Togo borderlands: citizenship and the vote at the margins of the state

Speaker: Nathalie Raunet

Date & Time: October 23, 2025, 3:30 pm

This book analyses claims to belonging that are rooted in different legal contexts (citizenship and local belonging) and territorial frameworks (the local, regional, national, inte...

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Pavilion Room, 4th Floor Gateway Building

Regional Financial Arrangements in East Asia

Speaker: Dr Yoichi Nemoto

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

Regional Financial Arrangements (RFAs) in East Asia emerged in response to the Asian Financial Crisis (AFC) of 1997–1998, which revealed significant vulnerabilities in the region...

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Investcorp Lecture Theatre

Peace and the Economy in Sudan and South Sudan: How to Make a Better Future

Speaker: Dr Ahmed Al-Shahi, Dr Richard Barltrop, Dr Harry Cross, Daniel Hupet, Bosco Mario, Betty Angasi, Dr Abraham Kuol, Dr Hisae Kato

Date & Time: October 25, 2025, 10:00 am

Join us for a day of presentations from various speakers, some will be online and others will be with us in person at Oxford. All are welcome. If you can't attend in-person, you ca...

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Nissan Lecture Theatre

Measuring and making change: opinion polls and market transition in post-socialist Russia and Belarus

Speaker: Dr Alexa von Winning

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

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Pavilion Room

Beyond the Mountains: Social and Political Imaginaries in Gilgit-Baltistan

Speaker: Dr Nosheen Ali

Date & Time: October 28, 2025, 2:00 pm

Beyond the Mountains: Social and Political Imaginaries in Gilgit-Baltistan (Raachi, 2024) is a multilingual, indigenous volume and collaborative research endeavor with the aim of d...

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Main Seminar Room

Presidential Personalities and Constitutional Power Grabs in Latin America, 1945-2021

Speaker: Ignacio Arana Araya

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

Ignacio Arana Araya (www.ignacioarana.org) is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He specializes in the study of political elites by analyzin...

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MEC Boardroom, Kirdar Building, 68 Woodstock Road

Safe Corridor

Speaker: Professor Marilyn Booth, Mr Jan Dost

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

About the book: ‘Safe Corridor’ is a bold, unforgettable novel of war, imagination, and survival. Thirteen-year-old Kamiran is fleeing the collapse of Syria when his body begi...

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Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR

Britain, Détente, and the Helsinki CSCE: 'Fathers of the Final Act’

Speaker: Kai Hebel, Paul Betts, Timothy Garton Ash

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

Britain’s role in this historic achievement has been understudied and understated. This book rectifies this shortcoming by tracing London’s important contribution to East-West ...

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Soldier's Paradise: Militarism in Africa after Empire

Speaker: Samuel Fury Childs Daly

Date & Time: October 30, 2025, 3:30 pm

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Investcorp Lecture Theatre

Food and Language: Rhetorical-Cultural Excavations in Arab Heritage / الطعام والكلام: حفريات بلاغية ثقافية في التراث العربي

Speaker: Dr Said Laouadi

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

Winner of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2025 for Literary and Art Criticism, Dr Said Laouadi, will be in conversation with Professor Michael Willis and Professor Eugene Rogan on his ...

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Pavilion Room, 4th Floor Gateway Building

Culture Must Be Defended: Japanese Conservatism and International Relations

Speaker: Dr Karin Narita

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

Japan has long been known for its commitment to a pacifist foreign policy as stipulated in Article 9 of the post-World War II constitution. Despite some opposition, for much of Jap...

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Pavilion Room & Zoom

Partition, Bengali Refugee Critiques of Postcolonial Sate and Capitalism, and the Subaltern Origins of the Cold War in India, 1947-1950

Speaker: Dr Milinda Banerjee

Date & Time: November 3, 2025, 4:00 pm

The British Raj formally ended on 15 August 1947. In the years following the bifurcation of British India into Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan, between 11 and 18 ...

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Nissan Lecture Theatre

Elections in the era of the State Duma (1906-17): a reassessment

Speaker: Professor Stephen Lovell

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

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Pavilion Room

Making India Work: The Development of Welfare in a Multi-level Democracy

Speaker: Dr Louise Tillin

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

Welfare policies and direct benefit transfers have been at the heart of India’s political marketplace for several decades but the longer-term history of welfare in India is surpr...

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Pavilion Room

Close people: the role of informal ties in Soviet and post-Soviet politics

Speaker: Dr Wojciech Zajączkowski

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

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Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR

The legislative politics of climate change mitigation: Evidence from the European Parliament

Speaker: Mihail Chiru

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

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Dahrendorf Room

Does Ethnic Stacking Work?: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Ascriptive Loyalty for Coup Proofing

Speaker: Kristen A. Harkness

Date & Time: November 6, 2025, 3:30 pm

Ethnic stacking, or recruiting and promoting soldiers based on shared identity, is a prolific form of coup proofing in autocratic regimes. Leaders attempt to ensure the loyalty of ...

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Pavilion Room, 4th Floor Gateway Building

Set My Heart Bonfire? (Dis)embodiment in Japanese Fiction and Literary Translation

Speaker: Helen O’Horan

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

We’re a day too late for Mr. Fawkes, but plenty of sparks still flying tonight. Join us, on the one-year anniversary of Suzuki Izumi’s most recent anglophone rebirth, as we del...

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Nissan Lecture Theatre

Economic nationalism in one country: reform and disintegration in the Soviet Union, 1987-1990

Speaker: Dr Jonathan Raspe

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

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Pavilion Room

Forms of the Left for the 21st Century: Contemporary Art, Digital Media, and Repressive Politics in Bangladesh

Speaker: Lotte Hoek

Date & Time: November 11, 2025, 2:00 pm

What sort of space is the gallery under contemporary conditions of political authoritarianism and “too late” capitalism? In this paper, I use the profusion of engaged and polit...

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Main Seminar Room

Panel on the 2026 Brazilian Elections

Speaker: Timothy Power, Andreza de Souza Santos, Saul Tourinho, Malu Gatto

Date & Time: November 11, 2025, 4:30 pm

This is a special Seminar Series hosted by the Brazilian Studies Programme....

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MEC Boardroom, Kirdar Building, 68 Woodstock Road

The Woman on Top and the Men Behind. Gendering Criminals in Colonial Egypt (1920-1922)

Speaker: Dr Elena Chiti

Date & Time: November 11, 2025, 5:00 pm

In the fall of 1920, the Egyptian police found seventeen female corpses buried under the floor of five houses in the working-class district of Labban, Alexandria. Several men and w...

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Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR

From two-party rule to polarization: Ten years of Spanish politics

Speaker: Sandra Leon Alfonso

Date & Time: November 11, 2025, 5:00 pm

The past decade has witnessed a fundamental reconfiguration of Spain’s party system. What was once a stable two-party structure has evolved into a more fragmented and polarized m...

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Dahrendorf Room

Saharan Winds: Energy Systems and Aeolian Imaginaries in Western Sahara

Speaker: Joanna Allan

Date & Time: November 13, 2025, 3:30 pm

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Investcorp Lecture Theatre

Morocco’s Party of Justice and Development in Government: The Experience and the Future

Speaker: Mr Mustapha El Khalfi

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

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Syndicate Room, Old Main Building

Words That Move: Emotions in Abe Shinzō’s Foreign Policy Rhetoric

Speaker: Professor Raymond Yamamoto

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

This presentation is based on a collaborative research project with Tadashi Iwami (Hokkaido University) and Marc Barcelos (Aarhus University), exploring how Japan’s longest-servi...

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Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR

Belonging in exile: How to write an almost global history of the German-Jewish diaspora

Speaker: Miriam Rürup

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

In this talk, Prof. Dr. Miriam Rürup will discuss the challenges of writing a history of the experience of statelessness. At the center of her research are the “victims” of th...

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Pavilion Room & Zoom

The Buddha of Berlin: The German Career of the Indian Film Pioneer Himansu Rai

Speaker: Andrew Halladay

Date & Time: November 17, 2025, 4:00 pm

The charismatic film pioneer Himansu Rai (1892–1940) is best remembered as the founder of Bombay Talkies, a studio practically synonymous with early Indian cinema. That his succe...

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Nissan Lecture Theatre

To feed and to mobilize: land reform in early Soviet Uzbekistan

Speaker: Dr Beatrice Penati

Date & Time: November 17, 2025, 5:00 pm

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Pavilion Room

Post colonial capital – a genealogy

Speaker: Professor Barbara Harriss-White

Date & Time: November 18, 2025, 2:00 pm

A critical examination of ‘post-colonial capitalism’ must begin by tracing the genealogy of the concept to debates about the late colonialism that post colonial capital is post...

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MEC Boardroom, Kirdar Building, 68 Woodstock Road

Egypt’s Role, Identity, and Foreign Policy in a River of De-Nile

Speaker: Dr May Darwich

Date & Time: November 18, 2025, 5:00 pm

This paper explains Egypt’s foreign policy stagnation, with a novel argument building on role and identity theories. Egypt’s foreign policy exhibits a case where its regional l...

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Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR

Law Unbound? Asylum and migration law in the UK post-Brexit

Speaker: Catherine Barnard, Cathryn Costello

Date & Time: November 18, 2025, 5:00 pm

Promises that sovereignty would be regained, immigration and asylum controlled, and national identity reasserted were central to the Brexit referendum campaign of 2016 and the ulti...

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Dahrendorf Room

Selling Healing: Creative Arts and Health Communication in Ghana

Speaker: Ama de-Graft Aikins

Date & Time: November 20, 2025, 3:30 pm

The intersections between arts, creativity and health are of significant importance in the humanities and social sciences. Within the arts and health field, for example, the arts h...

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Investcorp Lecture Theatre

Seeds in the Rubble: Cultural Vitality in the Arab World

Speaker: Mr Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi

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

The past century has been a time of great turmoil in much of the world. Europe, perhaps, bore the brunt of this turmoil, with millions killed and entire cities, such as Rotterdam, ...

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Pavilion Room, 4th Floor Gateway Building

Surnames, Same Sex Marriage, and the Interesting Evolution of Constitutional Litigation in Japan

Speaker: Professor Colin P.A. Jones

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

Professor Jones will summarize a recent paper in which he offers a new heuristic for understanding how and why constitutional claims are litigated in Japan. He offers a number of c...

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Pavilion Room & Zoom

The Idea of India beyond Nationalist Thought

Speaker: Salmoli Choudhuri

Date & Time: November 24, 2025, 4:00 pm

A century after Ernst Renan called the nation a spiritual principle defying all social and natural categories, Benedict Anderson redefined it as a secular, albeit special, idea con...

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Nissan Lecture Theatre

Speaking in tongues. The Soviet nationalities policy and minority protection in interwar Europe

Speaker: Dr Olena Palko

Date & Time: November 24, 2025, 5:00 pm

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Pavilion Room

The Uncertain State: Uncertainty as everyday experience and mode of governmentality in contemporary India

Speaker: Geert de Neve

Date & Time: November 25, 2025, 4:00 pm

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MEC Boardroom, Kirdar Building, 68 Woodstock Road

Breaking New Ground on the Global Stage: Memoirs of Kuwait's First Woman Ambassador

Speaker: Ambassador Nabeela Al Mulla

Date & Time: November 25, 2025, 5:00 pm

Book Overview: This book follows the four-decade diplomatic career of Nabeela Al Mulla, the first woman ambassador from the State of Kuwait. Though she planned on an academic c...

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Main Seminar Room, Latin American Centre, 1 Church Walk, Oxford

Institutions and Civil Society Organizations: Experimental evidence from Peru

Speaker: Paula Muñoz Chirinos

Date & Time: November 25, 2025, 5:00 pm

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Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre

The Rhodes Legacy at Oxford and beyond; and the Zimbabwean sculpture exhibition at St Mary’s university church (Speakers TBC)

Date & Time: November 25, 2025, 5:00 pm

The Unfinished Conversation: Reckoning with Colonial History...

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Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR

Democratic resistance to illiberalism in Hungary and Serbia

Speaker: Zoltán Ádám, Eric Gordy, Jessie Barton Hronešová

Date & Time: November 25, 2025, 5:00 pm

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Dahrendorf Room

The Soldier, the Activist, and the Writer: On Telling a Family Story of Colonial Afterlives

Speaker: Simukai Chigudu

Date & Time: November 27, 2025, 3:30 pm

The Unfinished Conversation: Reckoning with Colonial History...

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Investcorp Lecture Theatre

Stranger Visions: Ghuraba’ and Egypt’s Ideological Crisis

Speaker: Professor Walter Armbrust

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

My paper examines a moment of ideological crisis in modern Egyptian history, refracted through the film Ghuraba’(strangers, directed by Sa‘d ‘Arafa and written by ‘Arafa an...

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Pavilion Room, 4th Floor Gateway Building

How Firms, Bureaucrats, and Ministries Benefit from the Revolving Door: Evidence from Japan

Speaker: Professor Trevor Incerti

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

A growing literature finds high returns to firms with legislative connections. Less attention has been paid to returns from bureaucratic connections and to organizations beyond for...

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Pavilion Room & Zoom

A Cacophony of (Ir) Responsibilities

Speaker: Anwesha Roy

Date & Time: December 1, 2025, 4:00 pm

In this talk Dr Anwesha Roy will discuss one of the chapters of her forthcoming book, and examine in three important, yet hitherto overlooked textual sources on the Quit India Move...

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Nissan Lecture Theatre

Seize the city, undo the state: the inception of Russia’s war on Ukraine

Speaker: Professor Serhiy Kudelia

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

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Pavilion Room

Strange Fruit in Comparative Perspective

Speaker: Dr Adnan Naseemullah

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

Adnan Naseemullah is Professor of Comparative and South Asian Politics and Fellow of Wolfson College, the University of Oxford. He has previously taught at the London School of Eco...

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Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR

Backlash against green energy infrastructure: Survey experimental evidence from France, Germany, Norway, and the UK

Speaker: Patrick Bayer

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

As climate mitigation measures become deeper and more ambitious, the distributional effects of the green transition become more pronounced. This increases the potential for green b...

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Dahrendorf Room

The Town and Gown in Ibadan: Re-exploring the Legends of Mbari

Speaker: Olutayo C. Adesina

Date & Time: December 4, 2025, 3:30 pm

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Investcorp Lecture Theatre

The Code of Karam: How Literature Shapes Post-Revolutionary Social Spaces in Cairo

Speaker: Dr Giedrė Šabasevičiūtė

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

In this talk, I will present my upcoming book project on the role of literary practices in recreating spaces of sociability and solidarity in post-revolutionary Cairo. Over the pas...

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Pavilion Room, 4th Floor Gateway Building

Dead Letters: Reuse, Recycling, and Emotions in Japanese Buddhist Manuscripts

Speaker: Dr Halle O’Neal

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

Though little studied, letter sutras help us recover the stories of love, loss, and mourners turning to the things left behind in the wake of death to make something meaningful. Th...

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