College events

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

Stranger Visions: Ghuraba’ and Egypt’s Ideological Crisis

Speaker: Professor Walter Armbrust

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

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

The Underground Network of Liberation Theology in Latin America

Speaker: Niall Geraghty, Pablo Bradbury

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

A Cacophony of (Ir) Responsibilities

Speaker: Anwesha Roy

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

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

Strange Fruit in Comparative Perspective

Speaker: Dr Adnan Naseemullah

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

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

Speaker: Mathias Hack

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

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

US and Latin America

Speaker: Michael McKinley

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

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

Speaker: Olutayo C. Adesina

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

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

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

Speaker: Dr Halle O’Neal

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

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

Dictating the agenda: the authoritarian resurgence in world politics

Speaker: Prof Alexander Cooley, Prof Alexander Dukalskis

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

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

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

Institutions and individuals in the Russian foreign policy-making process

Speaker: Anton Barbashin

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

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

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

Speaker: Dr Elena Racheva

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

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

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

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

Speaker: Dr Marcin Kaczmarski

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

Politics in Ukraine: how resilient is Ukraine four years into Russia’s full-scale invasion?

Speaker: Prof Andrew Wilson

Date & Time: February 23, 2026, 5:00 pm

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

Audiences of repression: defiant dissent and public opinion in Russia

Speaker: Dr Katerina Tertytchnaya

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