College events

Nissan Lecture Theatre

Rainbow Rishta: A Screening and Discussion with Jaydeep Sarkar

Speaker: Jaydeep Sarkar

Date & Time: March 21, 2025, 2:45 pm

Rainbow Rishta, which streams on Amazon Prime, is an English-language docuseries about queer life and love in India. The series explores the complexities of queer communities’ re...
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Russian foreign policy and role theory

Speaker: Dr Damian Strycharz

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

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Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre

Public services in the age of populism: how do we fix the NHS and NHS productivity?

Speaker: Lord Markham

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

In the UK election, one domestic policy issue loomed large above everything else: the NHS. But when finances are tough, NHS improvement will prove a challenge unless we can improve...
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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

A workshop for all early career scholars working on any field of early modern global intellectual history. We will discuss methodological and practical challenges of studying globa...
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Russia and the changing character of conflict

Speaker: Professor Tracey German

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

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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

For many years, scholars, politicians and activists have drawn comparisons between the partitions of India-Pakistan and Israel-Palestine, two seismic events which took place mere m...
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Navigating power shifts: Russia and the growing asymmetrical relationship with China

Speaker: Dr Marcin Kaczmarski

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

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Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre

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

Many explanations for the rise of populism date its modern incarnation back to the Great Financial Crisis, when arguably a period of deregulation triggered risk taking that brought...
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Pavilion Room

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

Speaker: Marya Hannun

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

This talk draws on the approach of conceptual historians to explore how Asia emerged as a conceptual space with Afghanistan at its center in the minds and writings of Afghan and Mu...
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MEC Boardroom, Kirdar Building, 68 Woodstock Road

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Speaker: Dr Emrah Karakuş

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

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MEC Boardroom, Kirdar Building, 68 Woodstock Road

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

In this talk anthropologist Munira Khayyat revisits the South Lebanon borderland, where she has conducted longterm fieldwork in the wake of its almost total destruction after the l...
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Investcorp Lecture Theatre

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Speaker: Michael Wolfson

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

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Explaining Russia’s full-scale attack on Ukraine

Speaker: Dr Elias Götz

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

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The World After Gaza

Speaker: Pankaj Mishra

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

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Devaki Jain Lecture

Speaker: Rana Husseini

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

The Middle East Centre is honoured to host this year's Devaki Jain Lecture. The series, established in 2015 by Devaki Jain, welcomes esteemed women speakers from the South. Past sp...
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Russian relations with Iran and the Gulf states and the emerging (new) world order

Speaker: Dr Diana Galeeva

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

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Pavilion Room

Designing with the Rohingya: Trauma, Resilience, Memory

Speaker: Professor Esther da Costa Meyer

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

Refugee camps, regardless of location, are supposed to be “temporary,” a euphemism for biopolitical holding pens that have no end in sight. Host countries thus do not allow per...
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MEC Boardroom, Kirdar Building, 68 Woodstock Road

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

Speaker: Dr Haroon Bashir

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

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Investcorp Lecture Theatre

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Speaker: Dr Samer Abdelnour

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

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Russia and ASEAN in the Indo-Pacific

Speaker: Dr Paradorn Rangsimaporn

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

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Pavilion Room

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

Landfills in Delhi are often in the public eye, either because of raging fires, oozing leachate in the ground water or their mismanagement in terms of increasing heights, landslide...
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MEC Boardroom, Kirdar Building, 68 Woodstock Road

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Speaker: Professor Lisa Blaydes

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

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Investcorp Lecture Theatre

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Speaker: Tareq Baconi

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

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Investcorp Lecture Theatre

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Speaker: Joseph Giovannini

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

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