College events

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

Speaker: Dr Nosheen Ali

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

Digital scapes beyond capture? How resistance movements in Africa are shaping the way we think

Speaker: Prince Guma

Date & Time: October 28, 2025, 4:00 pm

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

Speaker: Ignacio Arana Araya

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

Safe Corridor

Speaker: Professor Marilyn Booth, Mr Jan Dost

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

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

Soldier's Paradise: Militarism in Africa after Empire

Speaker: Samuel Fury Childs Daly

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

Nepal’s Gen-Z ‘Revolution’: What Happened and What Lies Ahead?

Speaker: Professor David Gellner, Dr Krishna Adhikari

Date & Time: October 30, 2025, 4:30 pm

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

Culture Must Be Defended: Japanese Conservatism and International Relations

Speaker: Dr Karin Narita

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

División de poderes, diseño institucional y actores políticos. Argentina, siglos XIX y XX

Speaker: Laura Cucchi, Eduardo Zimmermann

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

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

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

Speaker: Professor Stephen Lovell

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

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

Speaker: Dr Louise Tillin

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

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

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

Speaker: Mihail Chiru

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

The BBC in Latin America: Aligning Journalism and Academia to Make Sense of Today's World

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

Remote Eldercare: Digital Labour Extraction and Life-making in the Philippines

Speaker: Stehanie Dimatulac Santos

Date & Time: November 6, 2025, 12:00 pm

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

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

Speaker: Helen O’Horan

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

Banned Histories: Indigenous Life In Death Records C. 1815 Mexico

Speaker: Miriam Melton-Villanueva

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

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

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

Panel on the 2026 Elections in Brazil

Speaker: Timothy Power, Saul Tourinho, Malu Gatto, Felipe Krause

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

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

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

Speaker: Sandra Leon Alfonso

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

Pahang and the Sea 2-day Workshop: Maritime Networks and Connections between Southeast Asia and Beyond

Date & Time: November 13, 2025, 8:30 am

Saharan Winds: Energy Systems and Aeolian Imaginaries in Western Sahara

Speaker: Joanna Allan

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

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

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

Speaker: Professor Raymond Yamamoto

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

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

Speaker: Miriam Ruerup

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

Title TBC

Speaker: TBA

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

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

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

Speaker: Dr Beatrice Penati

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

Post colonial capital – a genealogy

Speaker: Professor Barbara Harriss-White

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

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

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

Speaker: Catherine Barnard, Cathryn Costello

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

Round table on Brazilian elections

Speaker: Laurence Whitehead

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

Selling Healing: Creative Arts and Health Communication in Ghana

Speaker: Ama de-Graft Aikins

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

Seeds in the Rubble: Cultural Vitality in the Arab World

Speaker: Mr Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi

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

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

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

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

Andrey Kurkov in conversation with Pany Xenophontos

Speaker: Andrey Kurkov, Dr Panayiotis Xenophontos

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

The Idea of India beyond Nationalist Thought

Speaker: Salmoli Choudhuri

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

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

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

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

Institutions and Civil Society Organizations: Experimental evidence from Peru

Speaker: Paula Muñoz Chirinos

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

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

Democratic resistance to illiberalism in Hungary and Serbia

Speaker: Eric Gordy, Jessie Barton Hronešová, Zoltán Ádám

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

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

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

Institutions and individuals in the Russian foreign policy-making process

Speaker: Anton Barbashin

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