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Public Seminar Series, Michaelmas term 2025

Series convened by Professor Tom Scott-Smith and Professor Catherine Briddick

Time and location

Seminars will take place on Wednesdays at 5pm unless otherwise specified. Please check the date and location of each seminar.

Please direct enquiries to rsc-outreach@qeh.ox.ac.uk.

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Michaelmas term seminars

Wednesday 15 October 2025, 5pm, Seminar Room 1, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford

A short history of the Gaza Strip

Dr Anne Irfan (Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Race, Gender and Postcolonial Studies at University College London)

 

Wednesday 22 October 2025, 5pm, Seminar Room 1, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford

Displacement, solidarity, counter-government

David Owen (Professor of Social and Political Philosophy at the University of Southampton)

 

Wednesday 29 October 2025, 5pm, Seminar Room 1, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford

Human rights elites at the United Nations: Felix Ermacora and the first human rights fact-finding missions (1967-1993)

Dr Alvina Hoffman (Lecturer in Diplomatic Studies at SOAS University of London)

 

Wednesday 05 November 2025, 5.15pm to 6.15pm, St Anne's College, Oxford

Migration and displacement: My grandmother, Lausanne, and some lessons for the present

Lea Ypi (Ralph Miliband Professor in Politics and Philosophy at the London School of Economics)

Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture - please register for this event

 

Wednesday 12 November 2025, 5pm, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford

Cities of refuge in an age of displacements

Romola Sanyal (Associate Professor of Urban Geography at the London School of Economics)

 

Wednesday 19 November 2025, 5pm, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford

Attacking health: Understanding the dynamics and broader impacts of violence against healthcare

Larissa Fast (Professor of Humanitarian and Conflict Studies at the University of Manchester)

 

Wednesday 26 November 2025, 5pm, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford

Non-signatory states in international refugee law

Maja Janmyr (Professor of International Migration Law at the University of Oslo)

 

Wednesday 03 December 2025, 5pm, Seminar Room 1, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford

Decolonization’s forgotten children: Refugees and the stateless as ecological agents in South Asia

Jayita Sarkar (Professor of Global History of Inequalities at the University of Glasgow)