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BOOK TALK: Kingdom of Football: Saudi Arabia and the Remaking of World Soccer

Speaker: Dr Kristian Coates Ulrichsen

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

This talk explores how and why Saudi Arabia burst onto the landscape of world football in 2023 and examines what the speed and scale of Saudi engagement, as investor, owner, sponso...

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Pavilion Room, 4th Floor Gateway Building

The Right-wing Shift towards Immigrant Exclusion in Japan and Beyond

Speaker: Professor Hideki Tarumoto

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

Extreme right populism is on the rise worldwide, enforcing the exclusion of immigrants and foreigners. Why does the trend towards immigrant exclusion occur? To approach this quiz, ...

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A Reconsideration of Care: Pursing Gender-Equal Care for Health and Well-Being in India

Speaker: Various Speakers

Date & Time: February 13, 2026, 9:00 am

2:30 pm IST = 9 am London Welcome 2:40 pm IST= 9:10 am London Introduction to the project, to OSGA, Gender Care Hub 2:50 pm IST=9:20 am London Kishalay Bhattacharjee int...

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Right-wing decoloniality and civilizational discourses

Speaker: Ali Usman Qasmi

Date & Time: February 16, 2026, 4:00 pm

Speaking about the Scandinavian model of the social welfare system, former Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan described it as inspired by and named after the ‘Umar Laws,’ du...

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Investcorp Auditorium

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

Speaker: Dr Marcin Kaczmarski

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

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Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre

A well-informed democracy?

Speaker: Jonathan Hall KC, Marianne Spring, Mitali Mukherjee

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

Does the democratisation of news and information sources help or hinder actual democracy? How to tackle disinformation (hostile states, fraudsters or other bad actors) and how to b...

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Pavilion Room

South Asia-Africa Seminar Series: Gen Z revolutions

Speaker: David Gellner, Velomahanina Razakamaharavo, Krishna Adhikari

Date & Time: February 17, 2026, 2:00 pm

Hybrid Sovereignties and Generational Rupture: Reconfiguring Governance in Post-Crisis Madagascar Velomahanina Tahinjanahary Razakamaharavo Madagascar’s 2025 conflict and pol...

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Seminar Room, African Studies Centre

Peasants to Paupers: Land, Class and Kinship in Central Kenya

Speaker: Peter Lockwood

Date & Time: February 17, 2026, 4:00 pm

Book launch & discussion with Peter Lockwood On the northern periphery of Nairobi, in southern Kiambu County, the city's expansion into a landscape of poor smallholders is bring...

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MEC Boardroom, Kirdar Building, 68 Woodstock Road

The Role of UNRWA Historical Refugee Registration Records in Documenting the Demographic Reality of the Nakba

Speaker: Dr Valeria Cetorelli

Date & Time: February 17, 2026, 5:00 pm

Bio Valeria Cetorelli has been with UNRWA since 2018, serving six years as Head of Refugee Registration and Eligibility and currently as Deputy Director of Relief and Social Servi...

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Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR

Governing a multi-ethnic state: Minority rights in early twentieth-century Baltics

Speaker: Timo Aava, Martin Conway

Date & Time: February 17, 2026, 5:00 pm

In this talk, Timo Aava will discuss the history of ways of organising ethnically diverse states. The early twentieth century was a period of intense reform discourse in the Habsbu...

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Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR

Greece’s comeback: how a nation regained credibility

Speaker: Alex Patelis, Vicky Pryce, Peter Sanfey

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

Alex Patelis discusses insights from his book “Η Μεγάλη Έπιστροφή” (The Great Return), offering an inside account of the policy choices, economic reforms, and c...

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Investcorp Lecture Theatre

BOOK TALK: Order and Region Making in the Middle East

Speaker: Professor Simon Mabon

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

At a time of widespread instability in the Middle East, this book reflects on the construction and contestation of order across the region. Combining conceptual reflections with co...

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Pavilion Room, 4th Floor Gateway Building

Japan's Spongy-Middle Revolution

Speaker: Professor David Howell

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

In 1961, Thomas C. Smith published a short essay entitled “Japan’s Aristocratic Revolution.” In his characteristically clear and economical prose, he begins, “There was no ...

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Investcorp Auditorium

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

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Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre

How will AI affect defence, foreign and security policy?

Speaker: The Rt Hon. the Baroness Neville-Jones DCMG, Dr Patricia Lewis, Associate Professor Lucas Kello

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

What are the implications of AI for state and non-state threats, conventional and hybrid warfare, and our international relationships?...

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Pavilion Room

South Asia-Africa Seminar Series: The Politics of Digital Interventions

Speaker: Tom Neumark, Nafis Aziz

Date & Time: February 24, 2026, 2:00 pm

Digitization in ‘New India’: A Material and Moral Technology Dr Nafis Aziz Hasan (University of Amsterdam) As a material, ideological, aesthetic and moral force, digitizati...

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Investcorp Lecture Theatre

BOOK TALK: Fire in Every Direction

Speaker: Tareq Baconi

Date & Time: February 24, 2026, 5:00 pm

Both a love story and a coming-of-age tale that spans countries and continents, 'Fire in Every Direction' balances humour and loss, nostalgia and hope, as it takes us from the Midd...

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Dahrendorf Room

Book Talk: Order without Hegemony

Speaker: Manjeet S. Pardesi, Rosemary Foot, Faisal Devji

Date & Time: February 26, 2026, 2:00 pm

What comes after American hegemony? In this book, Acharya and Pardesi compare the interplay of power and ideas in the ancient Mediterranean and Indian Ocean to explain why the two ...

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Investcorp Lecture Theatre

FILM SCREENING: The Conspiracy: Assassination in Beirut

Speaker: Dan Clifton, Michael Taylor

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

The assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafic Hariri in a massive car bomb in Beirut on Valentine’s Day 2005 sends shockwaves through the Middle East. With a rolodex...

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Pavilion Room, 4th Floor Gateway Building

Valedictory Lecture: Technology Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Governance: A Retrospective of 40 years

Speaker: Professor Hugh Whittaker

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

From microelectronics in the 1980s to AI in the 2020s, technological innovation has played a major role in reshaping economies and employment. As have financialization and its ide...

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Nissan Lecture Theatre, Nissan Building

Morale on the home front, 1914-1945: Its transnational construction and destruction

Speaker: Sheldon Garon (Princeton)

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

Although few could define it, “civilian morale” became one of the twentieth century’s most lethal concepts. In its name, millions of civilians were bombed and starved, as bel...

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Pavilion Room & Teams

Family, Historical Memory and Cultural Capital in Late Colonial India

Speaker: Polly O'Hanlon

Date & Time: March 2, 2026, 4:00 pm

This paper explores the reconstitution of Brahmans as caste subjects in the late colonial period, with a particular focus on Maharashtra. As is well known, Brahman scribal elites a...

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Investcorp Auditorium

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

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Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre

How are governments going to pay to make 19th century institutions fit to deal with 21st century problems?

Speaker: Professor Paul Johnson, The Lord Macpherson of Earl's Court, Michael McMahon

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

Governments are spending a lot of money, including on debt interest, but most reforms cost money and society needs to pay for them. How and what consequences does this have for gov...

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Pavilion Room

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

Speaker: Elisa Tamburo, Bani Gill

Date & Time: March 3, 2026, 2:00 pm

Contested Sovereignty: Chinese-led urban development, city-making, and urban futures in Nairobi, Kenya Elisa Tamburo (Harvard University & Oxford) The paper examines city-maki...

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Seminar Room, African Studies Centre

Immunity on Trial: Ethiopian Courts, Chinese Corporations, and Contestations over Sovereignty

Speaker: Dr Miriam Driessen

Date & Time: March 3, 2026, 4:00 pm

Book launch & discussion with Miriam Driessen. Political and legal immunity are justified by the principle that certain social aims outweigh the value of imposing liability. To ...

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MEC Boardroom, Kirdar Building, 68 Woodstock Road

BOOK TALK: Contemporary Islamist Opposition in Morocco: Resisting Inclusion and Moderation

Speaker: Dr Alfonso Casani

Date & Time: March 3, 2026, 5:00 pm

'Contemporary Islamist Opposition in Morocco: Resisting Inclusion and Moderation' offers an in-depth and yet-unexplored analysis of the evolution and actions of Moroccan Islamist a...

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Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR

Mistakes were made: The EU’s relations with Russia and Turkey in the 1990s

Speaker: Ayşe Zarakol, Roy Allison

Date & Time: March 3, 2026, 5:00 pm

The talk explores what mistakes were made with regard to the semi-periphery by focusing on two pivotal countries that were mostly left out of the liberal international order (LIO) ...

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Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR

Can cultural life thrive under authoritarianism? Evidence from Greece, 1970-1973

Speaker: Stathis Kalyvas, Foteini Dimirouli

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

Existing accounts of life under the Colonels’ dictatorship (1967-1974) contend that cultural activity in Greece was all but eradicated due to repression and censorship. However, ...

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Nissan Lecture Theatre

Symposium: From Economic Security to Economic Statecraft: Insights from Japan, Europe, and the United States

Date & Time: March 5, 2026, 9:30 am

This symposium brings together leading experts on economic security and economic statecraft to share views on how debates and policies on these issues are evolving in different reg...

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Investcorp Lecture Theatre

A keynote conversation with Saeb Eigner about 'Artists of the Middle East. 1900 to Now.'

Speaker: Saeb Eigner

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

The first-ever A–Z survey of the major modern and contemporary artists of the Middle East. Artists of the Middle East celebrates a region of breathtaking creativity through th...

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Prostitution and the Politics of Presence in Colonial India

Speaker: Zoya Sameen

Date & Time: March 9, 2026, 4:00 pm

This talk argues that prostitution in colonial India was governed not through a stable definition of sexual commerce but through fluctuating demands about women’s presence and kn...

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Investcorp Auditorium

Audiences of repression: defiant dissent and public opinion in Russia

Speaker: Dr Katerina Tertytchnaya

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

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Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre

Is the changed relationship between voters and legislators due to the development of the Internet a boon for good decision-making - or a challenge?

Speaker: Nusrat Ghani, Professor Ignacio Cofone

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

Deliberative politics versus the Internet: is technology creating a democratic deficit? Constitutions like the US’s were deliberately designed to slow down decision-making and...

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Pavilion Room

South Asia-Africa Seminar Series: The Politics and Technologies of Measurement

Speaker: Dr Shankar Nair, Dr Rachel King

Date & Time: March 10, 2026, 2:00 pm

The Production of Value: Metrology, Land Revenue, and the State in Colonial India, 1820-1900 Shankar Nair (Oxford) The mapping of India has long been viewed as an instrument o...

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Seminar Room, African Studies Centre

The Great White Circumcisers of Kenya: a parable for polarised times

Speaker: Mark Lamont

Date & Time: March 10, 2026, 4:00 pm

This talk uses the ironic figure of the ‘Great White Circumcisers,’ echoing the trope of Great White Hunters, to rethink debates on male and female circumcision in Kenya. Drawi...

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MEC Boardroom, Kirdar Building, 68 Woodstock Road

An Autocratic Middle Class? State Dependency and Protest in the Middle East and North Africa

Speaker: Professor Neil Ketchley

Date & Time: March 10, 2026, 5:00 pm

Does public sector employment make graduates less likely to join anti-regime protests? Recent scholarship argues yes, with consequences for bottom-up democratization in late-develo...

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Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR

Polish-Ukrainian relations in past and present

Speaker: Yaroslav Hrytsak, Anna Wylegała

Date & Time: March 10, 2026, 5:00 pm

Polish-Ukrainian reconciliation was one of the most significant events in Europe following the fall of communism. Its importance is comparable to the Franco-German reconciliation a...

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Investcorp Lecture Theatre

Decolonizing Security Studies - a North African perspective

Speaker: Professor Nizar Messari

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

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Pavilion Room, 4th Floor Gateway Building

From Politics to People? Changing Protagonists and the Transformation of NHK Television News

Speaker: Dr Yosuke Buchmeier

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

As digital transformation, political pressure, and audience fragmentation reshape contemporary media environments, public service media face growing challenges in maintaining their...

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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

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Investcorp Lecture Theatre

Reading Tayeb Salih in the 21st Century

Speaker: Professor Laurent Mignon, Mohamed Khalaph, Amal Osman, Dr Apala Das, Timour Muhidine, Dr Lemya Shammat, Adil Babikir, Dr Abdelmagid Abdelrahman Awadelkarim, Dr Richard Barltrop, Dr Ahmed Al-Shahi

Date & Time: May 9, 2026, 9:45 am

Join us for a day of presentations exploring the works of Tayeb Salih. The day is divided into 3 sessions: (1) The World of Tayeb Salih; (2) Tayeb Salih in the World; and (3) Readi...

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