College events - St Antony's

Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies - Lecture Theatre

Film Showing: No City for Women

Date & Time: May 21, 2026, 5:00 pm

Engaging directly with women in modern urban India, this project used film to explore and highlight how women themselves understand and experience violence in both public and private as part...

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St Antony's College

Roots of Courage: Persistence of Past Repression and Anti-War Dissent in Russia

Speaker: Dr Andrey Tkachenko

Date & Time: May 21, 2026, 5:00 pm

Many autocratic regimes have a history of mass repression. We ask whether such historical violence leaves political legacies that backfire when an autocrat seeks to mobilize support for a war...

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St Antony's College - Pavilion Room, 4th Floor Gateway Building

Nissan Seminar: Greg Poole (Doshisha), 'In the Shadow of a Mountain: A Community School Coordinator and the Politics of Survival in Rural Japan'

Speaker: Dr Greg Poole

Date & Time: May 21, 2026, 5:00 pm

Japan’s Community School (CS) system was established through the 2004 amendment to the Local Educational Administration Act (地教行法), with a revision in 2017 that accelerated expansion to over 20,000 schools...

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St Antony's College - Investcorp Lecture Theatre

BOOK TALK 'The Resurrected'

Speaker: Joost Hiltermann

Date & Time: May 21, 2026, 5:00 pm

They were meant to be dead, buried under the sand. But they survived. Two young Kurds manage to miraculously escape Saddam Hussein’s killing grounds to eventually find their way to...

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St Hugh's College

BSP Conference 2026: "Values, Ideology, and Opinions of Brazilian Political Elites: Insights from the 10th Wave of the Brazilian Legislative Survey (2025)"

Date & Time: May 22, 2026, 8:30 am

Convened by Timothy Power (Oxford) and Cesar Zucco (Columbia University), this research workshop will debate 6 new draft papers based on the 10th Wave of the Brazilian Legislative Survey (BLS),...

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Blavatnik School of Government

Roundtable Discussion on "The Brazilian Elections of 2026"

Speaker: Daniela Campello, David Samuels, Malu Gatto, Natália Bueno, Juliana Moura Bueno, Timothy Power

Date & Time: May 22, 2026, 5:00 pm

Introduced by Anna Petherick (BSG) / chaired by Felipe Krause (LAC) A reception with live music to follow..

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St Antony's College - Pavilion Room

Why was the East India Company interested in land?

Speaker: John Marriott

Date & Time: May 25, 2026, 4:00 pm

When historians have talked of British territorial power in India it was almost always to the experience of eighteenth century they referred. For good reason. That was, after all, when...

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Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies - Lecture Theatre

The steppe and its empires. The Russian empire and Its Eurasian counterpart

Speaker: Professor Michael Khodarkovsky

Date & Time: May 25, 2026, 5:00 pm

RESC Monday Seminar, Trinity Term Week 5

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St Antony's College - Pavilion Room, 4th Floor Gateway Building

Future of US Politics: End of Empire or Beginning of a New One?

Speaker: Zachary Krabell

Date & Time: May 26, 2026, 3:30 pm

American political commentator Zachary Karabell(MPhil Modern Middle Eastern Studies,1988, St Antony's College) discusses the 'Future of US Politics: End of Empire or Beginning of a New One?'

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African Studies Centre - Seminar Room

The Osinoni War: A New History of the Kedong Massacre (1895)

Speaker: Norman Aselmeyer, Saitabau Lulunken

Date & Time: May 26, 2026, 4:00 pm

Registration is not required

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St Antony's College - MEC Boardroom, Kirdar Building

BOOK TALK 'Iraq's Shi'a warriors: From battlefield to parliament'

Speaker: Dr Inna Rudolf, Professor Raihan Ismail

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

By examining the PMU's self-positioning as a pillar of Iraq's defence infrastructure, this book offers a critical perspective on the prospects for Security Sector Reform (SSR) and highlights the limitations...

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St Antony's College - Pavilion Room, 4th Floor Gateway Building

Nissan Seminar: Susan Napier (Tufts), 'Crumbling Towers and Bleeding Boys: Gothic Excess and Late Style in Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron'

Speaker: Professor Susan Napier

Date & Time: May 28, 2026, 5:00 pm

The latest and possibly the last film by the great Japanese animation director, Miyazaki Hayao, is both a highly original achievement and one that encompasses some of the director’s major...

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Conference on AI, Education & International Development

Date & Time: May 30, 2026, 1:00 pm

This event brings together emerging leaders, experts, and practitioners to explore the role of education in addressing global challenges. Through keynote talks, panel discussions, and interactive sessions, participants will engage...

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St Antony's College - Pavilion Room

Asianism and the Fall of Empire: Rethinking the Origins of Anticolonial Political Thought?

Speaker: Mithi Mukherjee

Date & Time: June 1, 2026, 4:00 pm

The historiography of the Indian freedom movement has long been shaped by a nation-state framework that explains the rise of anticolonial politics primarily through developments within the territorial boundaries of...

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Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies - Lecture Theatre

Budynok Kul’tury: (re)building culture and nation in the Ukrainian House of Culture

Speaker: Ms Ada Wordsworth

Date & Time: June 1, 2026, 5:00 pm

RESC Monday Seminar, Trinity Term, Week 6

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St Antony's College - MEC Boardroom, Kirdar Building

BOOK TALK 'Needs That Bind: Materializing Nationality in Post-Ottoman Regimes'

Speaker: Dr Orçun Can Okan

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

Needs That Bind reconsiders the dismantling of the Ottoman Empire and the construction of new regimes in the decade after World War I, to understand the consequential connections that remained...

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St Antony's College - North Site, European Studies Centre - Seminar Room

Hungary after the election: Domestic change and European implications

Speaker: Zselyke Csaky, Zsolt Enyedi, Peter Kreko

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

This seminar explores the political and institutional implications of Hungary’s recent election, focusing on both domestic developments and their wider European significance. It brings together leading experts on Hungarian and...

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St Antony's College - North Site, European Studies Centre - Seminar Room

The New Byzantines: The Rise of Greece and Return of the Near East

Speaker: Othon Anastasakis, Sean Matthews

Date & Time: June 4, 2026, 5:00 pm

Caught between wars raging in both Eastern Europe and the Middle East, Greece is an island of relative stability. Popularly considered the cradle of Western civilisation, this is a Christian...

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St Antony's College - Investcorp Lecture Theatre

Spectral politics in the Middle East and North Africa: the afterlives of violence and the force of memory

Speaker: Professor Charles RH Tripp

Date & Time: June 5, 2026, 5:00 pm

Professor Charles RH Tripp delivers the 47th annual George Antonius Memorial Lecture. This event will be followed by a drinks reception in the Investcorp Gallery.

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St Antony's College - Pavilion Room

Revisiting Power-knowledge: Caste, Colonialism and Knowledge production

Speaker: Sunandan K N

Date & Time: June 8, 2026, 4:00 pm

By the early decades of the twentieth century, the introduction of colonial mode of education transformed the existing ways of knowing practices in Malabar and elsewhere in British India. Closely...

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St Antony's College - Pavilion Room

Justice, Individual and Community

Speaker: Humeira Iqtidar

Date & Time: June 15, 2026, 4:00 pm

The centrality of individual responsibility in South Asian and Islamic conceptions of justice is in some tension with the importance of the community in these traditions. How justice is operationalized...

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St Antony's College - Pavilion Room, 4th Floor Gateway Building

Nissan Seminar: 'Experiencing the Amami Islands through Music: Performance and Participatory Workshop with Shimauta Artists'

Date & Time: June 19, 2026, 2:00 pm

Ugaminshoran! We are a collective of performers (utasha) devoted to the Shimauta traditions of the Amami Islands, Japan. Rooted in the rich natural environment of the archipelago, recognized as a...

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