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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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Old Fellows Dining Room (Ground Floor)

Publishing Your Manuscript with the St Antony’s Series at Palgrave MacMillan: A Workshop with the Editors

Speaker: Professor Raihan Ismail, Dr Ambra Finotello

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

In this workshop, Senior Editor Ambra Finotello from Palgrave Macmillan as well as Series editors (Professors Raihan Ismail and Leigh Payne) will explain the process for publishin...
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Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, OX2 6SE

Mekelle Stories: Life in Time of War

Speaker: Catherine Dom

Date & Time: November 18, 2025, 4:00 pm

A book launch & discussion with Catherine Dom, co-editor. On the night of 3 to 4 November 2020, war broke out in Tigray. Soon after Mekelle was bombed, people were stunned: shou...
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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, Fiona Costello, Steve Peers

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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Main Seminar Room

Round table on Brazilian elections

Speaker: Laurence Whitehead

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

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St Antony's College. European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road.

Beyond the Rock and the Reef: Britain’s Overseas Territories in Transition.

Speaker: Prof Peter Clegg, Dr Sandra León

Date & Time: November 19, 2025, 6:00 pm

This presentation delves into the shifting geopolitics of Britain’s Overseas Territories, spotlighting Gibraltar and the Chagos Islands. Recent negotiations with Spain and Maurit...
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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

*CANCELLED* 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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Latin American Centre, and online via Zoom

Asesor en las sombras: Alvaro Puga, un propagandista de los servicios de inteligencia de Pinochet

Speaker: Juan Cristóbal Peña

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

To join online, please register in advance: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/KbVXDl5TQWCP1I0nKS1TiQ...
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Paris

Incommensurable histories: Mexican Japanese life experiences during the Second World War - XIIth Guerra Seminar (In Paris)

Speaker: Jessica Fernández de Lara Harada

Date & Time: November 21, 2025, 10:30 am

To join online, please register in advance: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/KbVXDl5TQWCP1I0nKS1TiQ...
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Nissan Lecture Theatre

Andrey Kurkov in conversation with Pany Xenophontos

Speaker: Andrey Kurkov, Dr Panayiotis Xenophontos

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

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Investcorp Lecture Theatre

Sovereignty in Question: Sudan's Boundary Lines with Egypt and Ethiopia

Speaker: Dr Muaz Ahmed Tungo, Dr Ahmed Al-Shahi

Date & Time: November 22, 2025, 2:00 pm

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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

In this presentation, we draw on the concept of uncertainty to explore the ways in which poor and predominantly low-caste villagers in India experience the state in their everyday ...
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Seminar Room, African Studies Centre

Book launch: Historical Dictionary of South Sudan

Speaker: Dr Douglas Johnson, Dr Nicki Kindersley, Dr Scopas Poggo

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

Book launch & discussion This is the first ever historical dictionary of South Sudan as an independent nation. It focuses on the events, peoples, and cultures of South Sudan tha...
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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 Unfinished Conversation: Reckoning with Colonial History

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

Exhibition of Stone Sculptures from Zimbabwe at St Mary’s Church, High Street, Oxford, 10th October-6th December, 2025 This exhibition features four stone sculptures from Zim...
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Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR

Democratic resistance to illiberalism in Hungary and Serbia

Speaker: Eric Gordy, Jessie Barton Hronešová, Zoltán Ádám

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

This seminar will explore democratic opposition resistance to illiberalism in Hungary and Serbia. Drawing on recent civic mobilisations, protest movements in Serbia, and emerging s...
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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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Latin American Centre, and online via Zoom

The Underground Network of Liberation Theology in Latin America

Speaker: Niall Geraghty, Pablo Bradbury

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

To join online, please register in advance: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/KbVXDl5TQWCP1I0nKS1TiQ...
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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, African Studies Centre

The making of an African tourist destination: Tourism development in post-independent Kenya

Speaker: Mathias Hack

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

In the mid-1960s, the post-independent government of the Republic of Kenya embarked on an ambitious tourism development programme. With state investments in hotels and lodges, libe...
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Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR

Backlash against green energy infrastructure: Experimental survey 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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Main Seminar Room

US and Latin America

Speaker: Michael McKinley

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

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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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Latin American Centre, and online via Zoom

Federal Interventions and the Making of a Bourgeois Republic under Getúlio Vargas’ administrations in Brazil (1930–1945) - XIIIth Guerra Seminar (in Oxford)

Speaker: Ana Laura Fraga

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

To join online, please register in advance: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/KbVXDl5TQWCP1I0nKS1TiQ...
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Nissan Lecture Theatre

Dictating the agenda: the authoritarian resurgence in world politics

Speaker: Prof Alexander Cooley, Prof Alexander Dukalskis

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

Join us for a discussion about the important authoritarian changes underway across various global governance domains. Following the end of the Cold War, the world experienced a rem...
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Investcorp Lecture Theatre

Asian ‘Revolutions’: Youth and Protest in the 2020s

Date & Time: December 5, 2025, 9:30 am

This event will explore the wave of recent major political protests across several Asian countries. We hope to cover the themes of authoritarianism, populism, corruption, dynastic ...
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Nissan Lecture Theatre

Institutions and individuals in the Russian foreign policy-making process

Speaker: Anton Barbashin

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

Anton Barbashin is a visiting researcher for ECFR’s European Security Programme and a co-founder and editorial director at Riddle Russia. Prior to his work on Riddle Russia, Anto...
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Investcorp Auditorium

The logic of Russian disinformation narratives during Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine

Speaker: Prof Katri Pynnöniemi

Date & Time: January 19, 2026, 5:00 pm

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Investcorp Auditorium

Militarisation, patriotic mobilisation and the societal impact of war in Russia

Speaker: Dr Elena Racheva

Date & Time: January 26, 2026, 5:00 pm

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Investcorp Auditorium

From sovereigns to servants: how the war against Ukraine has reshaped Russia’s elite

Speaker: Dr Alexandra Prokopenko

Date & Time: February 2, 2026, 5:00 pm

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Investcorp Auditorium

Russian instrumental use of international law towards Ukraine and the wider post-Soviet region

Speaker: Prof Rilka Dragneva-Lewers

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

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Investcorp Auditorium

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

Speaker: Dr Marcin Kaczmarski

Date & Time: February 16, 2026, 5:00 pm

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Investcorp Auditorium

Preferences over contested territory: evidence from a new survey experiment in Ukraine

Speaker: Dr Carl Müller-Crepon, Dr Marnie Howlett

Date & Time: March 2, 2026, 5:00 pm

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Investcorp Auditorium

Audiences of repression: defiant dissent and public opinion in Russia

Speaker: Dr Katerina Tertytchnaya

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

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