Thursday 15 May 2025

• 10:00 - Tanaka Symposium in Japanese Studies 2025: Tohoku and Transnational Solidarities
  Various Speakers
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
• 17:00 - After the End of the World: Another Season of War in South Lebanon
  Professor Munira Khayyat (NYU Abu Dhabi)
• 17:00 - Competing Internationalisms in the Cold War Caribbean
  Emily Snyder (Cambridge)
  Latin American History Seminar

Friday 16 May 2025

• 17:00 - Dame Zaha Hadid Mini Series – Celebrating 10 Years Of The Investcorp Building
  Philip Michael Wolfson (Wolfson Design)
  Friday Seminars
• 17:15 - OSGA 20th Anniversary Weekend: Introduction and Reflections on 20 years of SIAS/OSGA
  The Hon. Kevin Rudd (former Prime Minister of Australia), Prof Roger Goodman (Social Sciences Division, University of Oxford), Professor Paul Chaisty (University of Oxford)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Saturday 17 May 2025

• 09:30 - OSGA 20th Anniversary Weekend: ‘Social and Economic Challenges and Opportunities’ Roundtable
  Jonathan Lusthaus (University of Oxford), Professor Rachel Murphy (University of Oxford), Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford), Professor Hugh Whittaker (University of Oxford), Dr Gregory Thaler (University of Oxford)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Monday 19 May 2025

• 16:00 - Constituent Power versus Constitutionalism in Hindu and Muslim Political Thought
  Registration required for Zoom
  Moiz Tundawala (University of Oxford)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminars
• 17:00 - Explaining Russia’s full-scale attack on Ukraine
  Dr Elias Götz (Royal Danish Defence College)
  RESC Monday Seminar
• 17:00 - Political risk in an age of populism: How does business view politics and how do boardrooms find reliable ways of understanding political movements/risk?
  Malcolm Gooderham (Founder of Elgin Advisory, former Conservative Party Adviser), Sir John Sawer (former Head of MI6 and Founder and Executive Chairman of Newbridge Advisory), László Varró (Vice President Strategy Insights & Scenarios, Shell International)
  St Antony's Visiting Parliamentary Fellowship

Tuesday 20 May 2025

• 14:00 - Labour as Method: Studying Technologies of the South
  Hemangini Gupta (University of Edinburgh)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The World After Gaza
  Pankaj Mishra
  Book Talks
• 17:00 - Searching for the magic of conversation in these feral times
  Hakan Altinay (St Antony’s College, Oxford), Paul Betts (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

Thursday 22 May 2025

• 16:00 - The Homecoming - BBC Africa Eye
  Filmscreening
• 17:00 - Title TBC
  TBA
  Latin American History Seminar

Friday 23 May 2025

• 17:00 - The Devaki Jain Lecture
  Rana Husseini (author, journalist and activist)
  Friday Seminars
• 17:00 - Decolonial and Indigenous Military Geographies of Okinawa and Beyond
  Dr Hidefumi Nishiyama (University of Oulu)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Monday 26 May 2025

• 17:00 - Spinach and souls: power and recognition in the US-Russia relationship
  Dr Ruth Deyermond (King's College London)
  RESC Monday Seminar

Tuesday 27 May 2025

• 14:00 - Designing with the Rohingya: Trauma, Resilience, Memory
  Professor Esther da Costa Meyer (Princeton University and Yale University)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Slavery, Abolition and Islam: Debating Freedom in the Islamic Tradition
  Dr Haroon Bashir (Markfield Institute of Higher Education)
  Book Talks
• 17:00 - Indigenous Justice In Bolivia And The Travails Of Plurinational Constitutionalism
  René Provost (McGuill University)
  LAC Main Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Spanish transition to democracy revisited
  Ramón Areces Foundation Fellowship Seminar
  Ainhoa Campos Posada (Ramón Areces Visiting Fellow, St Antony’s College, Oxford), Alba Nueda Lozano (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha), Sophie Baby (Université Bourgogne Europe), Magda Fitili (Autonomous University of Madrid)

Wednesday 28 May 2025

• 17:00 - NGOization of the Palestinian civil society post-Oslo: our community-based ways out
  This will be a hybrid event with attendance in person and online. To attend online, please complete the booking form to receive the Zoom link.
  Dr Amal Nazzal (Birzeit University), Soheir Asaad (Palestinian lawyer and activist)

Thursday 29 May 2025

• 17:00 - Bridging the gap between research and policy in international affairs: A practitioner’s perspective
  Giulio Venneri (Luiss School of Government)
  European Studies Seminar
• 17:00 - Pombal’s reforms in Brazil
  Kenneth Maxwell (Harvard University)
  Latin American History Seminar

Friday 30 May 2025

• 17:00 - Big Tech and the Automation of Genocide in Gaza
  Dr Samer Abdelnour (University of Edinburgh Business School)
  Friday Seminars

Monday 2 June 2025

• 16:00 - Sacred Geographies, Political Communities: Burma’s South Asian History
  Registration required for Zoom
  Sana Aiyar (MIT)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminars
• 17:00 - Russia and ASEAN in the Indo-Pacific
  Dr Paradorn Rangsimaporn (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Thailand)
  RESC Monday Seminar

Tuesday 3 June 2025

• 14:00 - Ecologies of Caste and Waste: Dependence and Value Making at the Bhalswa Landfill in Delhi
  Aparna Agarwal (University of Lausanne)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - States and Social Hierarchies in Kuwait and the Arab Gulf Region
  Professor Lisa Blaydes (Stanford University)
  Women’s Rights Research Seminars
• 17:00 - From anti-Americanism to Americanofilia: The US in the kaleidoscope of Greek society
  Eirini Karamouzi (University of Sheffield), Lamprini Rori (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), Paul Betts (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)

Wednesday 4 June 2025

• 17:00 - Understanding climate-related disruption of global financial governance: Vertical and horizontal models of change
  Jeff Colgan (St Antony's College, Oxford)
  The ESC Annual Lecture

Thursday 5 June 2025

• 17:00 - Sir John Elliott Memorial Lecture Between Imperial History and Global History: Sir John Elliott, Historian of the Americas
  There will be no seminar this week due to the Sir John Elliott Memorial lecture, for which the registration deadline is midday on 30 April 2025
  Serge Gruzinski (CNRS, EHESS)
  Latin American History Seminar

Monday 9 June 2025

• 16:00 - The Birth of Indian Liberalism
  Registration required for Zoom
  Rahul Sagar (NYU Abu Dhabi)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminars

Tuesday 10 June 2025

• 14:00 - Rangoonwala Fellows: Development and Displacement in Pakistan
  Ilyas Chattha (Lahore University of Management Sciences), Azeema Cheema (Verso Consulting), Arslan Waheed (Institute of Business Administration, Karachi)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Contemporary Islamic Studies seminar
  Tareq Baconi (Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network), Professor Jeroen Gunning (King's College London)

Thursday 12 June 2025

• 17:00 - Dame Zaha Hadid Mini Series – Celebrating 10 Years Of The Investcorp Building
  Joseph Giovannini (Giovannini Associates)

Friday 13 June 2025

• 17:00 - Henry Charles Lea, the Inquisition, and the Origins of Scientific History in the United States
  Joint Seminar RAI/Iberian History Seminar/ Latin American History Seminar
  Richard Kagan (Johns Hopkins University)
  Latin American History Seminar

Monday 16 June 2025

• 16:00 - The Bangladesh Liberation War and Mass Internment of Bengalis in (West) Pakistan, 1971-1974
  Registration required for zoom
  Ilyas Chattha (Lahore University of Management Sciences)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminars

Tuesday 17 June 2025

• 14:00 - Title TBC
  Rohini Pande (Yale University)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Friday 20 June 2025

• 17:00 - Title TBC
  TBA
  Latin American History Seminar