College events - St Antony's

St Antony's College - Pavilion Room

The Lone Pregnant Body: Crafting Feminine Forms Through Manṣūr’s Anatomy (1640-1850)

Speaker: Sonia Wigh

Date & Time: April 27, 2026, 4:00 pm

The Tašrīḥ-i Manṣūrī (Manṣūr’s Anatomy) is the first known medical text in the Persianate world containing full-body anatomical images. It was composed in 1386 CE by Manṣūr bin Muḥammad bin...

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St Antony's College - Main Site - Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre

Little empire: architecture, nature and violence in recolonial Russia

Speaker: Dr Michał Murawski

Date & Time: April 27, 2026, 5:00 pm

RESC Monday Seminar, Trinity Term, Week 1

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St Antony's College - MEC Boardroom, Kirdar Building

BOOK TALK 'Brothers Behind Bars: A History of the Muslim Brotherhood from the Palestine War to Egypt’s Prisons'

Speaker: Mathias Ghyoot

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

Over the course of three decades, between 1948 and 1975, more than 60,000 members of the Muslim Brotherhood were imprisoned in Egypt. What did these prison experiences mean for the...

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1 Church Walk - LAC Main Seminar Room

The Political Economy of Industrial Policy in the Andes: The Cases of Ecuador and Peru 1970-2020

Speaker: Grace Jaramillo

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

Grace Jaramillo is Lecturer at the University of British Columbia’s Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs Program, as well as Honorary Research Associate. Her research tackles one of the...

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St Antony's College - Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre

African Studies Centre Annual Lecture 2026 - Decolonisation: Lessons from post-colonial Uganda

Speaker: Mahmood Mamdani

Date & Time: April 30, 2026, 3:00 pm

A leading Ugandan intellectual gives his authoritative and personal account of the tragic postcolonial fate of Uganda, his homeland. In 1972, when Mahmood Mamdani came home to Uganda, he found...

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St Antony's College - Dahrendorf Room

Nissan Seminar: Hiroshi Ishida (Tokyo), 'Are There Second Chances in Japan? The Life-Course Dynamics of Disadvantage and Recovery'

Speaker: Professor Hiroshi Ishida

Date & Time: April 30, 2026, 5:00 pm

This presentation examines whether and how individuals who experience disadvantage in Japanese society recover from setbacks and obtain opportunities to start over—what may be described as “second chances.” Disadvantage can...

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St Antony's College - Investcorp Lecture Theatre

BOOK TALK 'Critical Conditions: My Diary of the Syrian Revolution'

Speaker: Hadi Abdullah, Dr Alessandro Columbu

Date & Time: April 30, 2026, 5:00 pm

Join us for the launch of Critical Conditions, the debut memoir by Hadi Abdullah, newly translated into English by Alessandro Columbu. Written in the aftermath of revolution, war, and exile,...

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St Antony's College - Investcorp Lecture Theatre

From Crisis to Crisis: Can Europe Keep Up - or Change Course? (2026 Dahrendorf Lecture)

Speaker: Comfort Ero

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

Comfort Ero brings her global perspective as President and CEO of the International Crisis Group to Europe’s mounting challenges, examining how changing power dynamics are transforming conflicts and security. Informed...

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SAIH Seminar

Speaker: Durba Mitra, Tanika Sarkar

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

Week 2 details to follow

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St Antony's College - Main Site - Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre

The city as laboratory: urban activism in Chișinău

Speaker: Dr Abigail Karas

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

RESC Monday Seminar, Trinity Term Week 2

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St Antony's College - Investcorp Lecture Theatre

BOOK TALK 'Out of Gaza: A Tale of Love, Exile, and Friendship'

Speaker: Professor Katharina Galor

Date & Time: May 4, 2026, 5:30 pm

Out of Gaza tells the story of Dima Mansour, a young Palestinian who suffers hardship growing up in Jordan and Gaza during the Gaza War of 2014, later escaping to...

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St Antony's College - Pavilion Room

Book Talk - Imagining Quit India: War, Politics and the Making of a Mass Movement, Bengal 1940-45

Speaker: Anwesha Roy

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

In her new book, Anwesha Roy traces an emotional and revolutionary history of the Second World War, through the prism of the Quit India Movement in Bengal. While this last...

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St Antony's College - MEC Boardroom, Kirdar Building

The Hotels’ Republic: Elite Internationalisation and State Territorialisation in Wartime Yemen

Speaker: Dr Marine Poirier

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

This presentation introduces my book project, The Hotels’ Republic: Elite Internationalisation and State Territorialisation in Wartime Yemen. It analyses how the frontiers of the state are remapped in the midst...

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

Escaping from inequality: Is Europe trapped by history?

Speaker: Walter Scheidel

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

After rising during the early modern age European economic inequality greatly contracted from the 1910s to the 1970s, much as it did in other parts of the world. Even though...

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St Antony's College - Dahrendorf Room

DPhil Asia Day

Date & Time: May 7, 2026, 9:00 am

The Research Day will showcase students’ research, facilitate exchange of ideas across disciplines and regions within Asia, and foster a supportive peer network 8.45 am: Arrival and Registration Session 1:...

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St Antony's College - Investcorp Lecture Theatre

Triggers of Revolutionary Protest: The Social Geography of the 1979 Iranian Revolution

Speaker: Dr Ali Kadivar

Date & Time: May 7, 2026, 5:00 pm

Revolutionary episodes often begin with seemingly small triggering events that rapidly escalate into nationwide uprisings. Yet we know little about why such triggers produce protest in some places but not...

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

Nissan Seminar: Helen Parker (Edinburgh), 'Global Kabuki and the World of Onnagata'

Speaker: Dr Helen Parker

Date & Time: May 7, 2026, 5:00 pm

The talk examines Japanese and global perspectives on gender performance in contemporary professional kabuki - that is, what Brandon (2012) terms “the kabuki of the Kabuki-za,” in which characters of...

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St Antony's College - Pavilion Room

Histories of Architecture and the Architecture of History in Pakistan

Speaker: Chris Moffat

Date & Time: May 11, 2026, 4:00 pm

In Pakistan, a country shaped by multiple partitions, the meaning of ‘the past’ has been subject to considerable debate. Chris Moffat’s new book, Lahore After Modernism, traces how architects have...

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St Antony's College - Main Site - Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre

Is decoloniality multilingual? Identity, exile and language in Belarusian writing

Speaker: Professor Simon Lewis

Date & Time: May 11, 2026, 5:00 pm

RESC Monday Seminar, Trinity Term, Week 3

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St Antony's College - Pavilion Room

South Asia-Africa Seminar Series: Southern Urbanisms, Migration and Belonging

Speaker: Bani Gill, Elisa Tamburo

Date & Time: May 12, 2026, 2:00 pm

Business as (un)usual: Migration and Urban Life in Afro-Asian Delhi Bani Gill (University of Tuebingen) Contested Sovereignty: Chinese-led urban development, city making, and urban futures in Nairobi, Kenya Elisa Tamburo...

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

Democratic commitment: Why citizens tolerate democratic backsliding

Speaker: Natasha Wunsch

Date & Time: May 12, 2026, 5:00 pm

Why do citizens often fail to act as effective bulwarks against democratic backsliding? Drawing on a recent monograph, this talk argues that political culture plays a key role in explaining...

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St Antony's College - Investcorp Lecture Theatre

BOOK TALK 'Waning Crescent: The Rise and Fall of Global Islam'

Speaker: Professor Faisal Devji

Date & Time: May 12, 2026, 5:00 pm

A compelling examination of the rise of Islam as a global historical actor. Until the nineteenth century, Islam was variously understood as a set of beliefs and practices. But after...

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St Antony's College - Dahrendorf Room

Nissan Seminar: Sharon Kinsella (Manchester), 'Cute Male Performative Cultures in the 21st Century: Attention, Attraction and Flexibility and Visual Cultural Capital'

Speaker: Dr Sharon Kinsella

Date & Time: May 14, 2026, 5:00 pm

In the current opaque and insecure fiscal and social environment ‘aesthetic labour’ to maximise the appeal and cute or girlish ‘physical capital’ has intensified for both genders in East Asia....

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

Reinventing liberalism: Europe’s project of freedom in an age of crisis

Speaker: Franziska Brantner

Date & Time: May 14, 2026, 5:00 pm

Europe’s idea of freedom, forged in the Enlightenment, remains an unfinished project. As Élisabeth Badinter observed, it is not a historical period but an ongoing endeavour. Today, that project faces...

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St Antony's College - MEC Boardroom, Kirdar Building

BOOK TALK 'Sa'iba' by Alis al-Bustani (1891)

Speaker: Professor Marilyn Booth, Samir al-Boustany

Date & Time: May 14, 2026, 5:00 pm

Book copies will be available at the seminar for a discounted rate of £6 (cash only). Alis al-Bustani's 'Sa'iba' (1891) is one of the earliest known novels authored in Arabic...

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Provincial Metropolis: Intellectuals and the Hinterland in Colonial Bihar

Speaker: David Boyk

Date & Time: May 18, 2026, 4:00 pm

In this talk, David Boyk draws from his new book, Provincial Metropolis: Intellectuals and the Hinterland in Colonial India (Cambridge, 2025), to tell the story of Patna, in the north...

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St Antony's College - Main Site - Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre

“Post-Soviet ecopoetics”: exploring the decolonial language of ecocritical solidarity across Central Asia (and beyond)

Speaker: Professor Tamar Koplatadze

Date & Time: May 18, 2026, 5:00 pm

RESC Monday Seminar, Trinity Term Week 4

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St Antony's College - MEC Boardroom, Kirdar Building

BOOK TALK 'Yazidis on the Margins of Humanity: Internally Displaced in Iraqi Kurdistan'

Speaker: Dr Houman Oliaei

Date & Time: May 18, 2026, 5:30 pm

After ISIS's 2014 genocide, hundreds of thousands of Yazidis fled Sinjar, their ancestral homeland in northern Iraq. Most stayed within Iraq's borders, settling in camps and informal settlements in the...

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St Antony's College - MEC Boardroom, Kirdar Building

BOOK TALK 'Constructing the Achievement State: Cultural Administration in Postrevolutionary Egypt'

Speaker: Dr Chihab El Khachab

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

After the 1952 revolution, the Egyptian state became an ideological project promoted by national cultural and media institutions. Focusing particularly on the years under the leadership of Gamal Abdel Nasser...

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

Maidan myths and revolutionary dreaming in Ukraine, 2013-14

Speaker: Professor William Jay Risch

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

William Jay Risch is Professor of Russian and Eastern European History at Georgia College & State University, USA. He is the author of The Ukrainian West: Culture and the Fate...

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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 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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St Antony's College - Main Site - Nissan Institute 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 - 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), TBC

Speaker: Professor Susan Napier

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

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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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St Antony's College - Main Site - Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre

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

Speaker: Dr 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 - 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.

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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

SAIH Seminar Week 8

Speaker: Humeira Iqtidar

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

Week 8 SAIH Seminar

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