Tuesday 25 April 2017 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - ʿAlā fuwīr Tuṭīla. Bilingual contracts and written culture during the Christian conquest of al-Andalus
  Mr Rodrigo García-Velasco Bernal (University of Cambridge)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars
• 14:30 - Who’s Who at and around Deir el-Medina: New Insights about the Community of Workmen and Its Service Personnel
  Dr Kathrin Gabler (Universität Basel)
  Topics in Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies (EANES Topics Seminar)

Tuesday 2 May 2017 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - The origins of royal funerary architecture in al-Maghrib al-Aqṣā
  Mr Péter Tamás Nagy (Khalili Research Centre)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars
• 14:30 - Life and Labour in the Twin Towns: The View from Old Kingdom Gebelein
  Dr Hratch Papazian (University of Cambridge)
  Topics in Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies (EANES Topics Seminar)

Tuesday 9 May 2017 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - The written culture in Medieval and Early Modern Islamic Spain
  Dr Nuria Martínez de Castilla (Paris, EPHE)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars
• 14:30 - The Ptolemaic Queens in the Egyptian and Hellenistic Cults
  Dr Martina Minas-Nerpel (Swansea University/Prifysgol Abertawe)
  Topics in Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies (EANES Topics Seminar)

Friday 12 May 2017 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - The Mesopotamian Sublime: Time, Matter, Image in Mesopotamian Antiquity
  This lecture is free to students and staff of the University of Oxford. Booking is necessary for members of the public not affiliated with the University and can be made here: http://www.ashmolean.org/events/Lectures/?id=132
  Prof. Zainab Bahrani (Columbia University)
  Topics in Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies (EANES Topics Seminar)

Tuesday 16 May 2017 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Light and Lighting in al-Andalus
  Dr Tom Nickson (London, Courtauld Institute)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars
• 15:30 - Egypt and Kush: Elkab to Kurgus – Tracking the Pharaonic Inscriptions
  Dr Vivian Davies (University of Oxford/Elkab Expedition)
  Topics in Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies (EANES Topics Seminar)

Tuesday 23 May 2017 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Writing a New History of Western Islamic Architecture
  Professor Jonathan Bloom (Boston College)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Tuesday 30 May 2017 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Life beyond the medina of Cordoba: districts (rabad) and cemeteries (maqābir)
  Dr María Teresa Casal García (Madrid, CSIC)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars
• 14:30 - 'And the Goddess Gave Us the Love of Husband and Wife’: Hittite Kings and Their Queens
  Dr Amir Gilan (Tel Aviv University)
  Topics in Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies (EANES Topics Seminar)
• 15:30 - Glassmaking in Umayyad and post-Umayyad al-Andalus
  Dr Chloe Duckworth (Newcastle University)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Tuesday 6 June 2017 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - New (graphic) documents for the study of Almoravid and Almohad architecture
  Professor Antonio Almagro Gorbea (Granada, CSIC)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars
• 14:30 - Shapeshifter: Perception and Symbolism of the Moon in Graeco-Roman Egypt
  Dr Victoria Altmann-Wendling (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg)
  Topics in Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies (EANES Topics Seminar)

Tuesday 13 June 2017 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Berbers and Borderlands: state formation and urbanisation in early medieval Morocco
  Dr Corisande Fenwick (University College London)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars
• 15:30 - ‘How were the traces of their edifices erased?’ Archaeological / ethno-historical survey of Jerba, Tunisia
  Professor Renata Holod (University of Pennsylvania)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Tuesday 11 July 2017 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:30 - One Hundred Years of the Egyptian Collection at Kyoto University––Past and Future
  Prof. Tomoaki Nakano (Chubu University, Japan)
  Topics in Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies (EANES Topics Seminar)

Thursday 12 October 2017 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Acculturated natives who rebel. Revivalist, Ottomanist and Pan-Arabist engagements with early Islamic art (1876-1930s)
  Dr Nadia Ali (Wolfson College, Empires of Faith Project)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Thursday 19 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - The ʿAbbasid envoy and the giant’s bones: notes on the authorship of Ibn Fadlan’s Kitab
  Dr Luke Treadwell (St Cross College, KRC)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Thursday 26 October 2017 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Late medieval pottery from Ephesus
  Dr Georgi Parpulov (Wolfson College, British Museum)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Thursday 2 November 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - L’architecture palatiale ziride et hammadide et son influence sur l’architecture normande en Sicile
  Professor Lamia Hadda (University of Naples “L’Orientale”) )
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Thursday 9 November 2017 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Geometry and architecture in Islamic Jerusalem: a Sufi way
  Dr Archie G. Walls (independent scholar)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Thursday 16 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - ‘Ways of seeing’: Preparing the new Albukhari Foundation Galleries of the Islamic World
  Dr Ladan Akbarnia (British Museum)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Thursday 23 November 2017 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - An impossibility? Writing a book on Persian Pottery
  Professor Oliver Watson (Wolfson College, KRC)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Thursday 30 November 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Iran: collecting and curating
  Ms Fuchsia Hart (Wolfson College, V&A Museum)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Thursday 31 May 2018 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Islamic Umma and Nationalism in a Postmodern World
  Katrin A. Jomaa (University of Rhode Island)

Sunday 17 June 2018 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:00 - After Clarice: Lispector’s Legacy
  Various Speakers

Monday 8 October 2018 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - A Babylonian Babel: The Sasanians and the Crystallization of Judaism
  Shai Secunda (Bard College)
  The Crucible of Empire: The Sasanian World and its Religious Minorities

Tuesday 9 October 2018 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Red Flags: Why Xi's China is in Jeopardy
  Mr George Magnus (Adviser and former Chief Economist, UBS)

Monday 15 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Resisting the Empire: Armenian Historiography of the Fifth Century
  Dr David Zakarian (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Oxford)
  The Crucible of Empire: The Sasanian World and its Religious Minorities

Tuesday 16 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Silk Road Century: BRI meets Rules Based Order
  The Rt Hon. Liam Byrne (MP)

Tuesday 23 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Serial Orthodoxy: State, Faith and Power in the Sasanian Empire
  Albert de Jong (Universiteit Leiden)
  The Crucible of Empire: The Sasanian World and its Religious Minorities

Tuesday 30 October 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Babylonian Jews as Sasanian Jews: The Politics of Accommodation
  Simcha Gross (University of California at Irvine)
  The Crucible of Empire: The Sasanian World and its Religious Minorities

Monday 5 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Sometimes the Empire Strikes Back: The Sasanian Empire and its Religious Communities
  Touraj Daryaee (University of California at Irvine)
  The Crucible of Empire: The Sasanian World and its Religious Minorities

Monday 12 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Sasanian Role in the Mandaean World
  Charles Häberl (Rutgers University)
  The Crucible of Empire: The Sasanian World and its Religious Minorities

Monday 19 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Chalcedonians and Severans in the Empire of Khusrau II
  Phil Booth (University of Oxford)
  The Crucible of Empire: The Sasanian World and its Religious Minorities

Tuesday 20 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Are the US and China doomed to Enmity?
  Professor Kishore Mahbubani (National University of Singapore)

Friday 23 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Party Spirit: Producing a Communist Civil Religion in Contemporary China
  Professor Frank Pieke (Mercator Institute for China Studies)

Monday 26 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Strategies for Success: Manichaeism under the Early Sasanians
  Iris Colditz (Freie Universität Berlin)
  The Crucible of Empire: The Sasanian World and its Religious Minorities

Friday 18 January 2019 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - China Past, Present and Future: Family History and National Destiny
  Sylvie Bermann (French Ambassador to Russia), Yan Lan (Chairman and CEO of Greater China and Lazard Asia (HK) Ltd)

Wednesday 23 January 2019 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Public Security Informants in the Early People’s Republic of China
  Michael Schoenhals (Lund University)

Thursday 24 January 2019 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Chinese Perspectives on the Bomb in the Early Atomic Age, 1945–53
  Nicola Leveringhaus (King's College London)

Monday 28 January 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Dance of the Trillions: Developing Countries and Global Finance
  David Lubin (Head of Emerging Markets, Citi)

Friday 1 February 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Crucible: Thirteen months that Forged China and Our World, 1947–48
  TBA

Tuesday 12 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Out of the Gobi: My Story of China and America
  Weijian Shan (Chairman and CEO of PAG Asia Capital)

Friday 22 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Opium’s Long Shadow: From Asian Revolt to Global Drug Control
  TBA

Thursday 7 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - From Transatlantic to Eurasian: Global Order in the 21st Century
  TBA

Thursday 9 May 2019 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Archivists, Activists, and Graphomaniacs: Towards an ‘Integrated’ History of Early Polish Holocaust Testimony
  Katherine Lebow (University of Oxford)
  Seminar on the Holocaust and Memory

Thursday 23 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Why do we need a history of prostitution in the Holocaust? Reflections on sexual violence, agency, and sex work
  Anna Hájková (University of Warwick)
  Seminar on the Holocaust and Memory

Thursday 6 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - "We Are All Witnesses": Eva Reichmann and Early Holocaust Research at the Wiener Library
  Christine Schmidt (Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide)
  Seminar on the Holocaust and Memory

Thursday 17 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - The Language of the Qur’an in light of the Arab Grammarians and Early Qur’anic Manuscripts
  Marijn Van Putten (Leiden University)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Thursday 24 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - The Great Mosque of Damascus and the medieval Islamic mosaic industry
  Beatrice Leal (University of Oxford)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Thursday 31 October 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - The archaeology of the San‘ā’ palimpsest: New reflections from the perspective of codicology
  Eléonore Cellard (Collège de France)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Thursday 7 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - The Management of Architectural Heritage in the Mamluk Sultanate
  Doris Behrens Abouseif (SOAS)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Thursday 14 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - Origins of Hebrew calligraphy: from Abbasid Baghdad to Fatimid Cairo
  Judith Olszowy-Schlanger (University of Oxford)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Thursday 21 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - Manuscrits Coraniques de l’Afrique, une étude comparative
  Constant Hamès (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Monday 25 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Europe, the World and Beyond
  Ambassador Peter Wittig (German Ambassador to UK)

Thursday 28 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - The ‘Mosque of the Prophet’ and Beyond: A Tentative Reconstruction of the Early Islamic topography of Madina al-Munawwara (622-750) Based on Written Sources
  Aila Santi (American University of Beirut)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Thursday 5 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - Artistic and Architectural patronage of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan
  Gulfishan Khan (Aligarh Muslim University)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Friday 7 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Economic Shocks and Authoritarian Stability
  Professor Victor Shih (University of California San Diego)

Wednesday 12 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Long Peace Street: A Walk along China’s Most Important Street
  Dr Jonathan Chatwin

Wednesday 28 October 2020 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - The House of Yan: A Family at the Heart of a Century in Chinese History
  Lan Yan

Thursday 29 October 2020 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - The Invisible City: A Global Microhistory of Europeans and their Social Networks in Eighteenth Century Beijing
  Dr Eugenio Menegon (Boston University)

Thursday 12 November 2020 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Time and History across China’s Northeastern Borders
  Dr Ed Pulford (The University of Manchester)

Friday 20 November 2020 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Riskier than you think: Crisis instability between the US and China in maritime Asia
  Professor Jonathan D. Caverley (US Naval War College), Dr Peter Dombrowski (US Naval War College)

Tuesday 24 November 2020 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Where Next For UK‒China Relations?
  Professor Rana Mitter (University of Oxford), Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford), Sophie Gaston (British Foreign Policy Group)

Wednesday 25 November 2020 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - The Future of US‒China Relations – Has China Won?
  Professor Kishore Mahbubani (National University of Singapore)

Thursday 26 November 2020 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Tchang's Secret Signature: Paranoia, Realism, and The Adventures of Tintin
  Professor Andrew F Jones (University of California, Berkeley)

Tuesday 1 December 2020 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - In conversation: Eyck Freymann and Rana Mitter on the Imperial Echoes of One Belt One Road
  Eyck Freymann (University of Oxford), Professor Rana Mitter (University of Oxford)

Friday 4 December 2020 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Calculating Bully – Explaining Chinese Coercion
  Keitlan Vivian Zhang (George Mason University)

Monday 25 January 2021 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Poverty Alleviation in China: The Rise of State-sponsored Corporate Paternalism
  Camille Boullenois (Australian National University)

Tuesday 26 January 2021 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Before Sufism: Early Islamic Renunciant Piety
  Christopher Melchert (Oxford), Respondent: Michael Cooperson (UCLA)
  The Oxford Pre-Modern Middle Eastern History Seminar

Friday 29 January 2021 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Few Strings Attached: Why Countries Join the Belt and Road Initiative
  Professor M Taylor Fravel (MIT)
  International Relations of China

Tuesday 2 February 2021 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Explorations into the Origins of Islam: Religious and Philosophical Worldviews of the Quranic Mushrikūn
  Ahab Bdaiwi (Leiden/Cambridge), Respondent: Nicolai Sinai (Oxford)
  The Oxford Pre-Modern Middle Eastern History Seminar

Monday 8 February 2021 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - China 1949: Year of Revolution
  Graham Hutchings (University of Oxford, University of Nottingham)

Tuesday 9 February 2021 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Beyond the Mystical: how Hafiz’s poetry can help historians read post-Mongol Iran
  Dominic Brookshaw (Oxford), Respondent: Paul Losensky (Indiana)
  The Oxford Pre-Modern Middle Eastern History Seminar

Friday 12 February 2021 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Leveraging Money and Politics: The Rise of China’s Sovereign 'Leveraged' Funds and China’s Financial Statecraft
  Dr Zongyuan Zoe Liu (Texas A&M)
  International Relations of China

Tuesday 16 February 2021 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Redeeming Books: Christian-Muslim Relations through the Colophons of Medieval Armenian Manuscripts
  David Zakarian (Oxford), Respondent: Heghnar Watenpaugh (UC Davis)
  The Oxford Pre-Modern Middle Eastern History Seminar

Thursday 18 February 2021 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Jesuits, Women and Domestic Christianity in Early Modern China
  Dr Nadine Amsler (University of Bern)

Tuesday 23 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Ottoman Historiography and Topographical Illustration in Manuscripts attributed to Matrakçı Nasuh
  Zeynep Yürekli (Oxford), Respondent: Serpil Bağcı (Hacettepe)
  The Oxford Pre-Modern Middle Eastern History Seminar

Thursday 25 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The Politics of Transnational Aesthetics: Contemporary Chinese Art and Design in Global Contexts
  Professor Jenny Lin (University of Southern California)

Friday 26 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - A World Safe for Autocracy? The Domestic Politics of China’s Foreign Policy
  Professor Jessica Chen Weiss (Cornell University)
  International Relations of China

Tuesday 2 March 2021 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - How China Loses: The Pushback against Chinese Global Ambitions
  Luke Patey (Danish Institute for International Studies + University of Oxford)
• 17:30 - The Language of Politics in Wā’iẓ Kāshifī’s Futuwwatnāma-i sulṭānī
  Neguin Yavari (Columbia/Oxford), Respondent: Alan Strathern (Oxford)
  The Oxford Pre-Modern Middle Eastern History Seminar

Thursday 4 March 2021 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Matrix Barcodes, Swapped Faces and Thousand-mile Eyes: Machine Vision in Chinese Everyday Life
  Dr Gabriele de Seta (University of Bergen)

Monday 8 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - America in Retreat: The Decline of US Leadership from WW2 to Covid-19
  Michael Pembroke

Tuesday 9 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Tribes, bandits, & minstrels: A shared popular culture as a response to Ottoman and Safavid power
  Ali Aydın Karamustafa (Oxford), Respondent: Edmund Herzig (Oxford)
  The Oxford Pre-Modern Middle Eastern History Seminar

Thursday 11 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Miracles and the Supernormal in Medieval China: A Discussion on Religious Objects in the Works of Daoxuan道宣596–667
  Nelson Landry (University of Oxford)

Friday 12 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Protecting China’s Interests Overseas: Securitization and Foreign Policy
  Dr Andrea Ghiselli (Fudan University)
  International Relations of China

Tuesday 27 April 2021 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Maoism: A Global Story
  Professor Julia Lovell (Birkbeck College, University of London)

Thursday 6 May 2021 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - What are the historians’ biggest frustrations with popular conceptions of China in the United Kingdom?
  Professor Rana Mitter (University of Oxford), Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford), Professor Robert Chard (University of Oxford), Dr Rachel Leow (University of Cambridge)

Tuesday 11 May 2021 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:00 - Orchestration: China’s Economic Statecraft across Asia and Europe
  Professor James Reilly (University of Sydney)
  International Relations of China

Thursday 13 May 2021 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - How Communist Is the People’s Republic of China?
  Professor Patricia Thornton (University of Oxford), Dr Daniel Koss (Harvard University), Professor Joseph Fewsmith (Boston University), Professor Rebecca Karl (NYU)

Tuesday 18 May 2021 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Is the meaning of family changing in China, and if so, how?
  Professor Rachel Murphy (University of Oxford), Professor Xiaoying Qi (Australian Catholic University), Professor Suen Yiu Tung (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), Professor Harriet Evans (University of Westminster)

Thursday 20 May 2021 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - What does it mean to be 'Chinese' outside of China today?
  Professor Biao Xiang (University of Oxford), Dr Simeng Wang (The French National Centre for Scientific Research), Professor Gracia Liu-Farrer (Waseda University), Professor Gregory Lee (University of St Andrews)

Friday 21 May 2021 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Mixed Signalling in Chinese Foreign Policy
  Professor Xiaoyu Pu (University of Nevada, Reno)
  International Relations of China

Thursday 3 June 2021 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - China’s Public Diplomacy Operations
  Hannah Bailey (University of Oxford), Marcel Shliebs (University of Oxford)

Friday 4 June 2021 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Killing Chickens, Scaring Monkeys: The Demonstration Effects of China’s Economic Coercion and their Limits
  Professor Ja Ian Chong (National University of Singapore)
  International Relations of China

Tuesday 15 June 2021 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Reform Debate
  Professor Isabella Weber (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

Friday 18 June 2021 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - International Law as Driver of Confrontation: UNCLOS and China’s Policy in the South China Sea
  Dr Andrew Chubb (Lancaster University)
  International Relations of China

Monday 4 October 2021 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Classical Learning and the Politics of the Common Good in Early China
  The talk will be conducted in hybrid format. The in-person part of the event has limited space (max. 18 people) and pre-booking is required. If you are an Oxford student or staff member and wish to book a space, please contact Giulia Falato (giulia.falato@orinst.ox.ac.uk). To attend online, please see registration details below.
  Professor Michael Nylan (University of California, Berkeley)
  China Studies Seminar series

Wednesday 13 October 2021 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Decolonization and Human Rights Discourse within the Taiwan Independence Movement in Japan, 1960-2000
  Wolfgang G Thiele (Free University of Berlin)
  International History of East Asia

Thursday 14 October 2021 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - An Archive of Comparison: Between Adab, Wenxue and Literature
  Professor Michael Gibbs Hill (William & Mary)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 15 October 2021 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - The Construction of the Civil Service in China: Issues and Suggestions
  Talks are delivered in Mandarin, followed by bilingual Q&As
  Professor Guirong MAO (Meijigakuin University)
  Mandarin Forum

Wednesday 20 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - 'A Jinnah for Chinese Islam': Muslim Politics between South Asia and China, 1940-1949
  Aaron Glasserman (Harvard University)
  International History of East Asia

Thursday 21 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Politics of Financial Control in China: Mutual Endangerment in State-Business Relations
  Professor Meg Rithmire (Harvard University)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 22 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Influences, Unintended Consequences and Ripple Effects: Conceptualizing the Presence of China in Southeast Asia
  Professor Enze Han (University of Hong Kong)
  International Relations of China

Tuesday 26 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - China Town Hall
  Jeremy Korngold

Wednesday 27 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Rockefeller Bolshevik: John Black Grant and the Conception of Modern Public Health in China and India
  TBA
  International History of East Asia

Thursday 28 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Cybersecurity and Informatization: Restructuring Chinese Governance Through Technology’
  Dr Rogier Creemers (Leiden University)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 29 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - ‘The Devil is in the Details’: Mao Zedong before and after the Luochuan Conference, August 1937
  Talks are delivered in Mandarin, followed by bilingual Q&As
  Dr Sherman Xiaogang Lai (Queen’s University at Kingston and the Royal Military College of Canada)
  Mandarin Forum

Wednesday 3 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Between Escapism and Propaganda: Cultural Activities in Soviet POW Camps After World War II
  TBA
  International History of East Asia

Thursday 4 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Classical Learning and the Politics of the Common Good in Early China
  The talk will be conducted in hybrid format. The in-person part of the event has limited space (max. 18 people) and pre-booking is required. If you are an Oxford student or staff member and wish to book a space, please contact Giulia Falato (giulia.falato@orinst.ox.ac.uk). To attend online, please see registration details below.
  Professor Michael Nylan (University of California, Berkeley)
  China Studies Seminar series

Wednesday 10 November 2021 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Seeing the World Through the Atom: Readings of Fallout in Postcolonial North and South Korea
  Derek J Kramer (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
  International History of East Asia

Thursday 11 November 2021 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Rural Development in China and East Asia
  Professor Kristen Looney (Georgetown University)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 12 November 2021 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Missionary Yijing in Qing China: Dialogues between the Yijing and the Bible
  Talks are delivered in Mandarin, followed by bilingual Q&As
  Professor John T. P. LAI (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
  Mandarin Forum

Tuesday 16 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Where is the UK National Interest in our Economic Relationship with China?
  John Edwards (Her Majesty’s Trade Commissioner for China)
  Baillie Gifford Distinguished Speaker Series

Wednesday 17 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - The Anti-Hong Kong Dollar Campaign and the Making of China’s Exchange Rate Regime, 1949-1951
  Leung Ho-chiu (University of California, San Diego)
  International History of East Asia

Thursday 18 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Dog Days and Salted Fish: Malaise of Indolence among Young Migrant Café Workers in Shanghai
  TBA
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 19 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - The Role of Practice Diffusion in China’s Engagement in Global Standardization
  Professor Dr Sarah Eaton (Humboldt University Berlin)
  International Relations of China

Tuesday 23 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Battle of Images: The Sino-Hollywood Negotiation
  Prof. Ying Zhu (Hong Kong Baptist University)
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China

Wednesday 24 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - China's Role in Post-Pandemic Asia: Trade, Vaccines and Infrastructure
  Henry Tillman (Grisons Peak Services), Dr Ganeshan Wignaraja (National University of Singapore)
• 13:00 - Recontextualizing Japanese Views of African Americans from the Arrival of Commodore Perry (1853) to the Paris Peace Conference (1919)
  Tarik Merida (Free University of Berlin)
  International History of East Asia

Friday 26 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - The Reform of the Legal System of Taxation in China in the Last Two Decades and Future Prospects
  Talks are delivered in Mandarin, followed by bilingual Q&As
  Professor Yan XU (China University of Political Science and Law)
  Mandarin Forum
• 14:30 - Disaggregating China, Inc.: State Strategies in the Liberal Economic Order
  Professor Yeling Tan (University of Oregon)
  International Relations of China

Wednesday 1 December 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Legacies of minjok and neo-Confucianism in the construction of early DPRK political apparatus
  Noël Seulgi Um-Lo (Columbia University)
  International History of East Asia

Thursday 2 December 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - The Politics of Nuclear Commemoration in Asia: The China Case
  Nicola Leveringhaus (King's College London)
  International Relations of China